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deafmetalon Google.pl's crazy doodle

The Cyberiad is a great book for kids too. I must have read it when I was about 8 or 9 and it set me off on a life-long journey through Science Fiction...

deafmetalon Python web application GUI toolkit

I'm getting an import error when i try to run muntjac locally.

from muntjac.terminal.gwt.server.paste_wsgi_servlet import PasteWsgiServlet File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Muntjac-1.0.0-py2.6.egg/muntjac/terminal/gwt/server/paste_wsgi_servlet.py", line 19, in <module>

ImportError: No module named HTTPServlet

deafmetalon Ask HN: What should I read next?

I also heartily recommend "Cyberiad", a timeless collection of short stories.

deafmetalon Ask HN: What should I read next?

I recommend "A Fire Upon The Deep" and "A Deepness In The Sky" by Vernor Vinge. They're epic, emotional, and gripping, but also have some quite excellent hard science and future culture speculation. Also his book "Rainbows End" for something a little closer to home... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

deafmetalon Tickle Me Elmo Creator Invents Sometimes-Lethal Weapon

Baby steps towards "set phasers on stun". Good.

deafmetalon Use html5 video tags in html with flash fallback for old browsers

Trouble is, one still has to encode one's video in 3 formats; h264, ogg/thora, and flv for the fallback.

That ain't progress my friends.

deafmetalon [dead]

Not complete crap: Official reverses, confirms 2nd arrest from Flight 253 - http://www.detnews.com/article/20100102/METRO01/1020331/1410...

deafmetalon SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar

It's actually not useless at all. The human eye reads optimally at about 70 characters per line, more and the eye has to work harder to locate and skip back to the beginning of the next line, less and there aren't enough characters for your brain to successfully pre-scan the line. So, depending on your font size it is very handy to be able to adjust the column width to display approx. 70 chars a line.

deafmetalon Is Twitter saturated?

Is this just visits directly to twitter.com? or does it reflect visits via twitter's api?

deafmetalon Air France Flight 447: The Paradox of ‘Simplicity’

Miles O'Brien is consistently surprising in his depth of thought. (Or depth of assistants, i'm not sure...)

deafmetalon Twitter-based game from iList — Spymaster

That's why tweet filtering is your friend...

deafmetalon Remember the Skittles.com Experiment? Here are the results.

I just wish they sold the rainbow here in Brussels :-(

deafmetalon This is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me.

Wow, that really is an incisive article! I've been hacking AS2 + 3 for the last 7 years after being a proper JS head for the previous 4, this makes me want to get back and hacksome JS for fun again!

deafmetalon 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques

OOps! The following comment was in the wrong thread... Was meant for "THIS is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me" --------------------------------------------------------------- Wow, that really is an incisive article! I've been hacking AS2 + 3 for the last 7 years after being a proper JS head for the previous 4, this makes me want to get back and hacksome JS for fun again!