scommab

If you want to learn more here is a great video with both the history and recipe for mushroom ketchup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29u_FejNuks

https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable lets you do JS development targeting ESP8266/ESP32 .

xkcloud: http://xkcd.com/1506/

I assume there are a number of these, this is my version (written in python instead of java): https://github.com/scommab/impressor

Not surprisingly I like mine better, since you (in theory) shouldn't need to write any code, just create a markdown file a correctly formatted file.

Major Highlights:

- Python3 support! (supports python2.6.5+ and python3.2+ in the same code base)

- {% verbatim %} (no collision problems with mustache)

- Built-in Partial model saving

From the look of the screenshot it looks like the poster just applied the standard twitter bootstrap css style sheet to the page.

If you wanna see what it looks like for yourself (and are using chrome) you can use this chrome plugin I wrote: http://scommab.github.com/chrome-twitter-bootstrapper/

The adage should really be "Do what you love AND excel at". If the conversation you had with your wife about books you read was very interesting, you could film it, sell it (or more likely ads around it) and make it your job.

While some passions are easier to monetize then others if you are in the top 100 people that do it, there is a good chance someone will pay you for it.

Already done: https://github.com/trevs231/0x10c-Files/blob/master/minecraf...

(Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uViEhLNJ_8Y )

I actually did a very similar test to this recently and got similar results (though mine was just between Go and Python)... in retrospect the reason is obvious: in python I was using python-cjson which is a heavily optimized C implementation of a json parser, while in Go I was using a 100% Go implementation.

In a certain way this shows nothing, since we all know C is fast. But in another way it convinced me that Python is actually fine for most of what I'm doing since it's easy to drop in to C for parts that need performance. And even more importantly there are often already already C libraries with python bindings that do the thing I'm looking for (ie parsing, numpy, etc).

I always thought this would be a perfect fit for https://gumroad.com/ .

> We are no longer limited to batches of only 10k Raspberry Pis; the Raspberry Pi will now be being built to match demand.

To me this is the key point. No need to fight through the rush tonight, there will enough to go around.

While technically true, it isn't going to be easy to produce a general presentation for that code. There are a number of hardcoded x/y cords and specialized css classes ("<span class="have">have</span> <span class="you">you</span> <span class="noticed">noticed</span> <span class="its">it's</span> <span class="in">in</span>")

What I'd love to see is a way for me to write relatively vanilla HTML, possibly run it through a parser (in a perfect world, I would just annotate it with css classes) and out comes a sexy presentation. Or maybe a wysiwyg UI, like how Prezi's interface works.

While a very cool library, it will only be really useful once we get some content creation tools for it.

the FreeBSD devil is so cutesy I find it hard to believe someone would be that offended. And it's not like "the devil" is some sort of huge taboo in the US, it is often used in relatively benign product's names.

Some example "demonic" products off the top of my head

- New Jersey Devils (NHL team)

- Dirt Devil (a vacuum)

- Devil's food cake (a popular dessert)

http://developers.face.com/ has already started doing this (Though just for faces)

If by Oracle you mean heavily modified version of mysql, then yes. Or if you mean Java, then yes.

But if you mean any Oracle technologies that need to be licensed, then no.

As a follow up, he has been booted out of the rebel army.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/libyan-rebels-...

Does anyone know how this compares to Freenet? The FAQ talks about it a bit [ https://gnunet.org/faq/10 ] but for example, I don't understand what "Economics" means in this context?

Neat this like a more general implementation of the latitude tracking program from XKCD: http://xkcd.com/596/

Well to get technical there isn't a "sleep" function in flash. The best you can do is use setTimeout, which will call a function back in a specified amount of time. Everything including screen drawing, mouse interaction, effects/animations, code execution, etc all run in a single thread, which means if you could actually sleep(1) it would lock everything up for the full second.

If you want to be super evil about it you could also embed the evil POSTing code in a swf that looks like an unevil ad and then let an unsuspecting ad network distribute it for you.

Edit: grammar.

At least at one point facebook gave it's employees a bonus for living close to work. Wonder if will (does?) still exist.

If so I wonder if maybe they could start to revitalize the East Menlo Park area.

I assume since they are based in waterloo they are talking about the waterloo coop program [ http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/employers/prospective/ ].

Around waterloo it's actually normal for startups to be based around coop labor, they are cheap and the commitment is short (4-8 months), and best of all you get big tax breaks in Ontario if you hire students. Something else to keep in mind is that a waterloo coop student in their last year of coop has had at least 16 months work experience (To graduate the coop program you need to do at least 20 months of internships), so these aren't fresh out of class interns.

For those of you wondering why most flash applications leave wmode as window, it's simple because wmode opaque and transparent breaks a bunch of flash behaviors.

It creates performance problems, it creates browser incompatibilities, and in general makes flash worse than usual. (It also breaks accessibility, but I'm not sure if people care about that for ads)

Mode details: http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2006/02/23/wmode-...

This page has a good list of known wmode related bugs: http://xebee.xebia.in/2010/08/29/the-wmode-nightmare-in-flex...

It was only on the front page for an hour (at most)*, and then was gone. This entire story only got 18 points. I wouldn't say that counts as a huge story. (Using another metric, slashdot didn't even mention it)

The story about reddit being slightly slower than normal got way more coverage then this one. Maybe if an interesting postmortem comes out we'll see something come of it, but I bet that won't even be hugely covered.

The saddest part of Yahoo being down, is that it's hardly even news (at least for technical people).

It's not amazingly obvious, but you can do flexible airports by putting in an area code or city that is between airports in to/from fields. i.e. if you do from:"palo alto" to:"salt lake", it will show flights leaving both SFO and SJC that go to SLC.

Something else interesting I noticed is that it seems to also return results for Amtrak.

If you've read the book it's worth it to also watch the free online MIT coure material on them: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/godel-escher-bach/vid... (and maybe even if you haven't)

They are very non-technical (annoying so at times), but interesting. Definitely gave me a more in depth understanding of GEB.

ThinApp [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ThinApp] is pretty useful when needing to do "classic" browser testing.

I think you might be thinking of locking up the browers, rather then crashing it. You can easily create a javascript program that will run a loop that will make your browser non-reactive.

But this is very different the plugin actually crashes. The security issues comes in to play because when the plugin crashes it is doing something it wasn't designed to do. So (in theory) someone malicious could take this crash and make the flash player do something specific it wasn't designed to do like run some code outside of it's sandbox. Which obviously would be a very big deal.

This is different then the lock up/DoS case where a product is doing what it is meant to do, but will just take a very long time (maybe forever) to finish it.