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  • Paul Graham on the misadventure that is the iPhone App store. Interestingly he ties the frustration of app developers, to the way Apple's "approval process" breaks the release-early-and-often development cycle. "Programmers don't use launch-fast-and-iterate out of laziness. They use it because it yields the best results.... By breaking software development, Apple gets the opposite of what they intended: the version of an app currently available in the App Store tends to be an old and buggy one."

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  • "Unfortunately, all CSS enabled versions of IE before IE6/strict use a... box model [where] the padding and borders are counted as part of any assigned 'width' or 'height'. In the absence of borders and padding, the two models agree. However, if a box has an assigned "width', and if borders and/or padding are added, the standard box model causes the overall box width (between the outer border edges) to increase, while in IE's model the 'content area' gets squeezed by the same amount."

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  • "In Subversion, there's no difference between a tag and a branch. Both are just ordinary directories that are created by copying. Just as with branches, the only reason a copied directory is a “tag” is because humans have decided to treat it that way: as long as nobody ever commits to the directory, it forever remains a snapshot. If people start committing to it, it becomes a branch."

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  • The Wikipedia editors' standards for 'reliable' sources are "peer-reviewed journals and books published in university presses; university-level textbooks; magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses; and mainstream newspapers... personal websites, open wikis, blogs, Internet forum postings, tweets etc., are largely not acceptable."
  • Basic advice on how to discuss "expression of aesthetic opinions. Some Wikipedia articles about art, artists, and other creative topics": "When we discuss an opinion, we attribute the opinion to someone and discuss the fact that they have this opinion. For instance, rather than asserting that "The Beatles were the greatest band ever", locate a source such as Rolling Stone magazine and say: "Rolling Stone said that the Beatles were the greatest band ever", and include a reference to the issue in which that statement was made. Likewise, the statement "Most people from Liverpool believe that the Beatles were the greatest band ever" can be made if it can be supported by references to a particular survey; a claim such as "The Beatles had many songs that made the UK Singles Chart" can also be made, because it is verifiable as fact. The first statement asserts a personal opinion; the second asserts the fact that an opinion exists and attributes it to reliable sources."
  • Advice from Wikipedia's editors on how to avoid writing a "vanity page" that gets immediately deleted: "Criticism and praise of the subject should be represented if it is relevant to the subject's notability and can be sourced to reliable secondary sources, and so long as the material is written in a manner that does not overwhelm the article or appear to take sides; it needs to be presented responsibly, conservatively, and in a neutral, encyclopedic tone. "
  • Some sound advice on writing biographical articles in Wikipedia, from editor Circusandmagicfan: "In biographies you should expect to find things like place where the subject was born, who his parents were and what they did (especially if it might have had any influence on his career choice). Also a bit more about his education would be desirable (given that you refer to him doing magic while still at school). It needs more fact and explanation around the passage where you say he gave up his studies to concntrate on magic - at what level of education was he when he gave up his studies? Then there needs to be some explanation of what he did in his early magic career, in the seven years before he became well known with the flying illusion. Where did he first find paid work as a magician? What sort of shows was he doing?"
  • "Keep working on the article. Chances are that other editors will notice its existence and join you in working on it. If nobody seems to notice it and you'd like one or two to do so, mention the article in the talk page of a relevant "WikiProject""
  • Investigating IRB in relation to Emacs: "inf-ruby-mode allows Emacs users to interact with Ruby while editing programs. See the file inf_ruby.el in the misc directory of the distribution for more details." I wonder if this would help with running the Cygwin IRB on GNU Emacs for Windows

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  • Cool ^_^ "create the chat server on this machine and set it to listen to 3333 TCP port: nc -l 3333 On the other end, connect to the server with the following: nc 192.168.0.1 3333 In this case, the keyboard acts as the stdin. Anything you type in the server machine’s terminal is transfered to the client machine and vice-versa."
    (tags: nc netcat)

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  • Interestingly, techcrunch says that "the Twitter-based game Spymaster went from a private alpha, to insanely popular, to feeling a full rush of backlash in about 3 days." But I hear that people who signed up today don't appear to have gotten any direct messages at all from the new spymaster twitter game. And indeed, I see that at 6.35 est spymaster has announced they've been unable to send dms "for the last 15 hours" -- seems like they've been getting slammed today. Promotional games like this hark back to the "cloudbreakers" online treasure hunt that was part of the early promotion push for Stephen Spielberg's AI way back when. Of course text-based gaming on the network goes back much further than that but, there is a newer and very interesting measure of "difficulty for games:" how interesting does a game have to be, for me to be willing to expose my private social network to to that game?
  • "Changes on PF Usage can be an indicator of memory allocation inefficiency." Crockford also provides a purge() function which he recommends to run before removing an element. Does jQuery contain this?

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  • I forgot that "The XPath and CSS parser, in fact, is based on John Resig‘s JQuery". Install the development version of hpricot using the rubygems command for installing a gem from source, `gem install hpricot --source code.whytheluckystiff.net`

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  • “Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.”
  • A concise explanation of what goes into a Rakefile. This is the best explanation I have seen so far as it does not try to give a bunch of examples but instead simply explains each feature of the Rakefile in the briefest terms possible. Interesting facts learned here include 1) tasks are called only once, multiple calls to the same task, with different parameters, simply cause all those parameters to be passed to the task 2) rules can be defined for target files whose file extension matches a regex, and the name of the target file will also be assumed to be the name of any source files 3)
  • You had me at "I never intended to write this code." Jim Weirich, the author of Rake, on the origin of the idea of building a make tool in Ruby. "It was just about a page worth of code that reproduced an amazing amount of the functionality of make. We were both truely stunned with the power of Ruby."

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  • 2.2.

    What about an automated Cygwin installation?

    The Cygwin Setup program is designed to be interactive, but there are a few different ways to automate it. If you are deploying to multiple systems, the best way is to run through a full installation once, saving the entire downloaded package tree. Then, on target systems, run setup.exe as a "Local Install" pointed at your downloaded package tree. You could do this non-interactively with the command line options setup.exe -q -L -l x:\cygwin-local\, where your downloaded package tree is in x:\cygwin-local\ (see the next FAQ for an explanation of those options.)

    For other options, search the mailing lists with terms such as cygwin automated setup or automated cygwin install.










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  • I'm sure my dad would have agreed that in the 90s: "Inside the papers, the pragmatists were the ones simply looking out the window and noticing that the real world was increasingly resembling the unthinkable scenario. These people were treated as if they were barking mad. Meanwhile the people spinning visions of popular walled gardens and enthusiastic micropayment adoption, visions unsupported by reality, were regarded not as charlatans but saviors."

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