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batat··on Dropbox Project Infinite
Meh... https://github.com/joe42/CloudFusion
batat··on Being a Developer After 40
> Do not worry about hype. Keep doing your thing, keep learning what you were learning, and move on.

Thanks, Adrian. Now I have an official excuse for not writing a single app with Angular/React in 2016.

batat··on Dissecting a spammer's spam script
That was pretty straightforward. Check this http://ideone.com/VImf2v :)
batat··on Personal info of 93M Mexicans exposed on AWS
Someone should make MongoRoulette.com at last.
batat··on The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
https://pljns.com/

> 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow

[x] check

> You loaded all 7 fontfaces of a shitty webfont just so you could say "Hi." at 100px height at the beginning of your site?

[x] assuming 404'ed fontawesome as shitty webfont, check

> You thought you needed media queries to be responsive, but no

[x] check

> Your site has three bylines and link to your dribbble account, but you spread it over 7 full screens and make me click some bobbing button to show me how cool the jQuery ScrollTo plugin is

[x] check

Still pretty good site, but it's funny how accurately creator of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ has described the situation with the modern web :)

batat··on The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
And 43 MB chromium mini_installer.exe
batat··on Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
Got this from developer update channel on Windows 7 http://i.imgur.com/gNRtE2c.png
batat··on Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
Nope, it's just press-this-button-to-speed-up-your-internets.
batat··on Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
It seems to be platform- and/or location-specific. On Windows I have much longer list, with washingtonpost.com, aliexpress.com etc.
batat··on Algorithms as Microservices
Too bad that they don't offer a hosted version of left-pad stack, our CEO worries about privacy. And I can't find SLA.
batat··on Ubuntu on Windows
Kinda bad news for node.js developers

  /home/user/dev/my-proj/node_modules/concurrently/node_modules/chalk/node_modules/has-ansi/node_modules/ansi-regex
batat··on Ubuntu on Windows
It's terribly broken https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/e4b91...

Seems to work only with WriteConsoleOutputW(), while C I/O behaves unpredictably.

batat··on Mern: Build JavaScript apps using React and Redux
Could be a drinking game: pick random word, add "js" and google for it. If google finds something related, take the shot.
batat··on Mern: Build JavaScript apps using React and Redux
FRAMEWORK (shitty tragedy in one act)

Dramatis Personae

PROGRAMMER, programmer

HIPSTER, hipster

* * *

ACT I

Small room. There are a table with paper stacks, opened "Perrier" bottle, two huge monitors and a programmer sitting behind. Programmer reads papers, looks on first monitor, then on second and typing something. From time to time he says "damn idiots". Number of "damn idiots" is divided equally between papers, first and second monitor.

Door opens loudly

PROGRAMMER: Who's there?

Hipster runs into waving his hands

HIPSTER: Framework! New awesome framework! Just look, it's awesome! Just look!

Programmer looks into hipster's iPad

  @moccachino.render()
  helloWorld({
    view: "myProject.sample.view.Hello",
    div: "myContainer",
    data: {
      message: "Hello World!"
    }
  });
then takes a "Perrier" bottle and smashes on hipster's head. Hipster falls on the floor.

PROGRAMMER: Damn idiots.

Exeunt.

(sorry for my English)

batat··on What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable
It's abandoned radio station in Brovary, Ukraine, I've been there several times. There were two antennas — 180 m and 270 m with 100 and 150 kwt transmitters (later up to 250 kwt). Until 1988 they were used for radio jamming (BBC, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle), later for radio broadcasting [1]

AFAIK you could get serious burns [2][3] even when antenna was not powered any more. In this case it works just like huge receiving antenna, getting kilowatts of RF energy directly from atmosphere. Before the thunderstorm ropes holding the antenna literally glowed due to corona discharge effect.

A few years ago both antennas were demolished [4][5]

[1] http://vk.cc/4LQeGa (wiki, Ukrainian)

[2] http://io.ua/20405915p

[3] http://io.ua/20405932p

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6NgzzFrCv4

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn6sLpDS0Ks

batat··on Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ
While phpBB-ish forums looks pretty outdated nowadays, they're at least usable.

  Search Help
  Options
  order:views	order:latest	order:likes		
  status:open	status:closed	status:archived	status:noreplies	status:single_user
  category:foo	user:foo	group:foo	badge:foo	
  in:likes	in:posted	in:watching	in:tracking	in:private
  in:bookmarks	in:first	
  posts_count:num	min_age:days	max_age:days
Oh thanks, why not to simply embed DB REPL there?
batat··on TensorFlow Tutorials
Nodejs, nodejs-legacy, npm, gulp, bower and tsd. Not a big deal of course.
batat··on LSD: My Life-Saving Drug
Did the same thing without mushrooms. Am I at risk for becoming an enlightened homeless guy who will sleep on the streets for the rest of his life if I'll try mushrooms?
batat··on The Elements of Python Style
Yep, there's an option "Collect run-time types information for code insight" (not sure if enabled by default). JetBrains IDEs are smart as hell.
batat··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Cached by Google http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... Mirror http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM
batat··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Ian's twitter on Google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... Copy http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM
batat··on HN: Christmas Colors
As an orthodox, Happy Thursday.
batat··on Listening to satellites for $30
You can use specialized beer- or even diet-dr-pepper-satellite-antenna https://v1.std3.ru/96/24/1443432707-96242a90aed02e25c975fc5c...
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