mgr86

There is something about a NYtimes online articles. They are such an appropriate blend of investigative reporting and proper adoption of new media. Wrapped neatly in nice typography and minimal advertisements.

...Now only if I had the attention span.

I agree it is powerful but it is also just effective communication. I try to do it a lot with my girlfriend on things we don't necessarily agree. I'll paraphrase her position to ensure that my response is correct. ...Sadly, that is sometimes met with "No, are you even listening". But hey, at least at that point she rewords it to get her point across.

I get what you are saying, but couldn't it work the other way?

For example, if someone has trouble falling asleep but still needs to get up in the morning and tries to fall asleep early. Only to give up after not being able to adequately sleep and rise early?

It's been awhile since a fresh install but is it ViM. is Vi still around? I just seem to recall some things not working right. Such as not being able to ZZ or ZQ out of a file.

ok you are a hair away from my favorite oracle acronym. One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

I haven't read the article yet, and while I prefer to work with JSON most of the time XML is much more human readable. And working in publishing we have a lot of XML floating around.

I'll forever think slackware when I hear slack.

Cost is half of it. The other half was very resistant. I am told that when my office started going digital in the late 80's there was a lot of turmoil and it split the organization. That attributed greatly to a period where we had 3 presidents for a year. Digitization won of course.

We sold our journal I think for two reasons. The first was to digitize them. We have a large electronic database that we are still not completely finished converting from microfiche. We've been working on it since the late 80s. The second was time commitment. We are small. 10-15 people on average. Only two real developers. The hosting commitment was daunting at the time.

Honestly, I don't know the whole story. I've only been around here for a few years.

To your second point there has always been a contingent in the museum community who opposed the reparation of artifacts. This is not to say they may lament the means of acquisition but feel that the artifacts would be better protected in a more stable or better funded place.

This group has been given more attention as of late. Especially with the rate of destruction currently occurring in parts of the middle east (re: ISIS). But even in other areas of the world this a concern. I've herd it said by some that artifacts returned to Peru cannot be fully accounted for. Admittedly, this was second hand, but it seems quite logical knowing a thing or two about the backlog of even the most funded museums.

I haven't meditated regularly in over ten years. I really am planning to pick it up again because it works. I find myself constantly engaged in thought. I'll wake up in the middle of the night not sure if I've even slept because I still have thoughts racing in my mind. I think I need a vacation, but short of that meditation would probably really help me once again.

Everytime I see something about Slack i immediately think of SlackWare.

Here is my dilemma as I consider if I should double down on JavaScript and adopt it on the severside. Is there an alternative for the web? and publishing as a whole?

We are a small shop. Two people and hope to grow. We publish a web database. Our market is academics, libraries, and scholars. Our Data must be kept in XML. It just makes the most senese.

But we are spread over a half dozen different languages. Halfway proficient at all of them, but as we move around to a new project and set one language aside to pick up the other we regress. What we had known must be relearned, the way we were thinking must be retrained.

If we created our web services, our internal API's, our production system all largely in the same language we should, I think, we come more proficient and quicker in this language. At the end of the day we need a well functioning, modern web application. So I have no alternative but to be very current in javascript it feels.

Might as well set aside our old Java 5 app. Might as well not create a new python project as fun as it is for me when I am the only one that can understand the python. Might as well stop pouring all my efforts into a silo. Why note double down on javascript.

A key source of inspiration for this line of thinking is from a conference presentation I saw given from some at O'riely. They were experimenting with their upstream source of their products being HTML5. The HTMLBook[1] project seems to logical enough. Their output is almost exclusively HTML. Be it on the web, the ereader (epub/mobi) or with the PDF. They were using Attenahouse to convert HTML to PDF using CSS.

Why mess around with several different languages. Keep it simple, and produces nice things quickly. If they aren't as nice as you hope refactor. With not having to retrain parts of your brain for javascript as you were working on a Python project exclusively for the last month and a half we should be that much quicker.

[1]https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook

Honest question. Why would I want to use this? I am already quite happy with awk,sed,grep, etc.

yes, but would the motivation and money for testing not be more available if there was an allowable marketplace*

* note - I didn't read your links completely.

I cannot argue the noise aspect, but I do thing not allowing experiments in drone delivery a bad thing. I strongly suspect that self-driving cars are on the horizon. With that presumption, I suspect self-flying cars would not be far off and that the technology that would drive that would come from parcel delivering drones.

did anyone else notice the photo/painting's caption read "Click to Embiggen"?

Could this be a subtle nod to the animators who painstakenly produce live cartons at the sacrifice of their wrists?

gotcha.

I'm missing some obvious joke...but why is he pronouncing it yava-script.

Yes, but if you continue reading the start of the very next paragraph addresses this.

>The trial was far too small to be conclusive, >said Dr. Gasser, whose co-authors include Dr. Doblin, >Dominique Holstein of UniversityHospital Zurich and Rudolf >Brenneisen of the University of Bern.

they go on to say that

>“It’s a proof of concept,” Dr. Doblin said. >“It shows that this kind of trial can be done safely, and >that it’s very much worth doing.” --

which is important. This sort of research all but halted in the mid-60s. In fact, the reason LSD even made it into popular culture can be a credited to the fact that many who tried it in clinical trials liked it enough to take it home a share. Of course, that is a bit of a dump down version, but not too far from the truth.

I was at Balisage this summer, a markup conference (XML). The opening talk was on semantics. The summary basically read, what the hell does this word even mean anyway.

(paper - http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Usdin01/Balis...)

sign in w/ google or fb? no thanks.

Eddie Huang went on about his bad experience with TED on the Joe Rogan podcast earlier this year => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNenJN4484

I was not aware of this book. Sounds fascinating. One of my favorite articles I've ever read was in an anthropological course that detailed some of these same findings cross culturally.

The title of the article is "Slumbers Unexplored Landscape" I'd link to it but what I've found is I believe behind a paywall. I'm employed at a university so sometimes I don't notice paywalls.

actually, you do raise a very good point. The playback has been super buggy for me the last six months or so. Often times beyond usable. It seems the only way to get it actually play is using watching the embedded video. I do it so much out of habit anymore that I often don't notice.

I do actually have that installed (or at least something like it) I actually use it a fair bit for things I want to watch but don't want to listen too. Somewhere between comcast and youtube I find it nearly impossible to stream 1080p quality videos. I feel like youtube doesn't buffer like it used to.

I often switched to embed. (youtube.com/watch?v=x89eyhj => youtube.com/embed/x89eyhj)

I do it because I might want to watch a video full screen in one monitor and continue to work on another. Embed automatically takes up the full window. An added side effect is that the pre-roll ads disappear. The banner ads are still there.

I do enjoy my MPD/ncmpcpp setup as well.

however, I also use plex connected to my roku for other media needs. But, I often find when on the go I will use plex on my phone primarily for music...or a superior remote for the roku...

I'm curious, is there a strong reason to chose AngularJS over other non JS frameworks. Say, Rails, Django, or one of the many other alternatives?

I realize this thread has me walking into the AngularJS den, but it is something i've been passively curious about.