June 2011
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Every day is Tax Day →
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“Language is alive, you see, and it changes, and its beauty lies in its ability...”
– Linda Holmes, NPR
“It was a moonless sky, and I have to tell you, flying on a moonless night is one...”
– What Really Happened with Bin Laden: a Navy Seal’s account
#207: :dependent => :destroy only works for many... →
:dependent => :destroy only works for many association
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10 things you may (not) need to know before bed...
Facebook, not Twitter, was supposed to be integrated into your iPhone.
Yahoo is spinning off its Hadoop cloud computing unit into a separate company. This is bad news for competing startups like Cloudera.
News Corp says Apple and Google are destroying it.
People are buying tons of e-readers. Tablets seem to be boosting the category, not crushing it as was initially thought.
Inside Jeff...
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Abortion Foes' Latest Backdoor Ban →
Kansas has long been a frontline in the abortion wars, so it isn’t much of a surprise that anti-abortion crusaders there have pioneered one of the newest tactics for limiting access to legal abortion procedures: developing onerous regulations that specifically target clinics. And this strategy—which could lead to shutting down all of the state’s abortion clinics by the end of this month—is...
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“In order for Bison to parse a language, it must be described by a context-free...”
– The Concepts of Bison
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Tutorials and Related Blog Posts - GitHub →
Here is a list of Cucumber related blog posts/tutorials. Please keep in mind that blogs can become dated quickly with a fast moving project like Cucumber. Cucumber’s RDocs and wiki should be considered the canonical documentation source with the, hopefully, most up to date information. Some blog posts may refer to the RSpec Story Runner but they still provide value since Cucumber started out as a...
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Stealthcoin, or "Bitcoin: Botnet Edition" →
bitcoinminer:
Stealthcoin is a wrapper and a modified bitcoind client that mines gently on a Windows system with minimal impact to the user.
The CPU mining occurs at a slower rate than is otherwise possible, especially compared to other CPU miners, however in a scenario such as a computer lab, the software can run 24x7 regardless of how the computer is otherwise used.
In the computer lab...
Correct, Beautiful, Fast →
Correct: make it work and test it.
Beautiful: refactor original code in a manner that others (and yourself down the road) can easily understand.
Fast: often the first two steps leave code fast enough, but if they do not, make it faster.
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“If Visa could blow up their current payment model and start over today, would...”
– Dwolla’s Grid API could make cash more secure than plastic
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Need something? Zaarly gets what you want when you... →
You’ve been there. You’re sitting around with the worst craving for a sandwich from the one shop that doesn’t deliver. Maybe you have a project that desperately needs to be scanned, printed and collated but you simply don’t have the time to do it. Right now, there is no good way to get assured service for what you want. Zaarly is the answer.
jQuery Sparklines →
This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.
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Why Rubinius Matters to Ruby's Future →
Having an implementation where the built-in stuff is on the same footing as your stuff opens up the doors for actual progress. It forces the language itself to be Good Enough, and it makes it possible for every Ruby programmer to improve the language.
schema.org - Extending Schemas →
(via Instapaper)
“How fricken sweet is that? Major. Epic.”
– Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
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InfoQ: ECC - Fun Writing Compilers →
Summary Joe Armstrong presents ECC, an optimizing compiler running on LLVM for writing C compilers for unusual architectures, for implementing DSLs and for experiments with JIT compilation. Bio Joe Armstrong is the principal inventor of Erlang and coined the term “Concurrency Oriented Programming”. At Ericsson he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP...
“What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about right and wrong, or...”
– Sam Harris )=( via @Aeni on Facebook
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“Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of having it all, we...”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ms. Magazine, March 1978 (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
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“A utility class that serves as the umbrella for a number of...”
– Intangible - schema.org
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WatchThe man, jammin’. On the J into Jamaica, Queens.
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“Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in...”
– schema.org
Workout Committment
Today I’m starting a workout regimen. Or what I hope will become one. I’m making it publicly, so I’m held accountable. Thanks, Rick!
“This library is a Ruby interface to WordNet®. WordNet is an online lexical...”
– ruby-wordnet
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IMF Hacked →
The brave new world of cyberattacks on sensitive financial, political, industrial and military entities is in full effect. I wouldn’t be surprised to find the same organizations behind the attacks themselves. The snake eats its tail.
Protovis →
Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.
I’m going to a Meetup with The New York Bitcoin Users Meetup Group http://meetu.ps/1kF79
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“Bitcoin is a really ambitious project; we’re trying to let people take...”
– Gavin, Lead Developer of Bitcoin (via Bitcoin Blogger)
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“When the Israelites first reached the sea it did not part, the Rabbis explain....”
– Rabbi Wolpe
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead...”
– Donald Knuth, quoted on RSpec is for the literate @ Virtuous Code.
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