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barrym··on Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
They're using the distributed version for these matches, this question was just asked in the post match press conference.
barrym··on First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
People using the HTTPS Everywhere extension will have the site URL as https, but not the embedded videos.
barrym··on Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF
http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/manual/x147.html helped me with this.
barrym··on Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7
I was 2.5 years old when my brother was born and I remember a lot about that night - being at home with my nan, what our curtains were like, how the room was laid out. What the hospital was like, the toy I was given, the fruit jellies that someone gave my mum. Everyone's always been surprised that I remember so much.
barrym··on Amazon TV ad gives sneak peek at ‘Paperwhite’ Kindle and new Kindle Fire
There's an explanation in Mark Forsyth's excellent The Etymologicon claiming it's based on the size of sheepskin.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KUZxTvay3PMC&lpg=PP1&... (I can't seem to get a direct link to the page, but just click page).

barrym··on A review of RubyMotion
I didn't know about the new @{} syntax for dictionaries - http://blog.ablepear.com/2012/02/something-wonderful-new-obj... - very nice.
barrym··on Sh*t… Twitter is exciting… again
https://twitter.com/#!/i/discover is the Discover tab.
barrym··on Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers
I suspect it's the recent http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455230457711...
barrym··on Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0
When I've done similar upgrades, I've often found it quicker to have the previous code available to me in another checked out repo rather than switch branches and have to deal with any possible uncommitted changes issues.
barrym··on Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone
The Battle Of Chernobyl is also well worth watching : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMLFJJyWnM
barrym··on Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone
It's extremely peaceful and quiet there, so you'd probably be quite happy.
barrym··on Revitalization of the Chernobyl zone
I went there last year on a tourist trip - walking around the exclusion zone and through the abandoned buildings was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone.
barrym··on Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is a done deal
It took me a while to realise it wasn't a screenshot he was using in the post.
barrym··on Facebook for iPad
Sounds like you've installed the iPhone app - it seems the iPad app isn't live just yet.
barrym··on Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”
You can change how much disk space it uses in the settings.
barrym··on Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good
I write Erlang every day and love it, but I have to agree with most of the points raised by http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
barrym··on It’s only a few lines of code, or a button… pay up
I'm not sure it's written by Dan Abelow - http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/13/honan-lodsys and http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-what-is-dan-abelows-i...
barrym··on Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
http://www.badscience.net is Ben Goldacre's blog, and he publishes his Guardian articles there.
barrym··on Review of the 11" MacBook Air
Does the same on my 13 inch - it freaked me out the first time I saw it. Same for everyone else in my office who owns one.
barrym··on The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
Or even/sometimes worse - tracks which you were able to play previously, which this week are now not available.
barrym··on Google Reader reader? Would you find this service useful?
This is my biggest annoyance with my RSS feeds, I'd love to see this have a solution.
barrym··on Camera+ first month sales: Setting Sail in a Sea of Games
Weird. Was totally broken for me, but a refresh fixed it.
barrym··on Ask YC: What do you actually pay for, you, yourself?
I pay for Flickr, Last.fm and Github.