February 2012
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Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken →
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I say all of this to set up the fact that Beatrix has little idea of how traditional TV works and seeing her first real exposure to it was enlightening to say the least.
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Watch(via The Many Samples and Sound-Alikes of Earthbound [Video])
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How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy... →
Automated authors writing books and automated middle men trying to sell over priced books at a profit. The author of the blog post claims to be human, but I’m not so sure.
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Watch(via Listen to two full albums of Daft Punk songs, remixed as Nintendo soundtracks [Daft Punk])
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Learn from Haskell - Functional, Reusable... →
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Using CSS without HTML (mathiasbynens.be) →
Implied HTML elements, CSS before/after content, and the link HTTP header combines to make a document that displays something despite having a 0 byte HTML file. Demo only in Opera/FireFox due to link HTTP header support.
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Mothereffing animated gif →
Client side animated GIF creator web app.
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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
What Target discovered fairly quickly is that it creeped people out that the company knew about their pregnancies in advance.
“If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” Pole told me. “We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you’re...
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The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia... →
Interesting article on an expert attempting to modify an article on Wikipedia. Sounds like an issue when presented in this fashion, but looking at it from Wikipedia’s perspective, I don’t know how they could do better.
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Corrections: Squirrel Nut Zippers →
Awwww
“Staff writer J.O. Rolston’s Jan. 28 feature “Swing Set,” about swing revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers, was mistakenly written in 2012. He meant to write it in 1997. The Onion regrets the error.”
I like Squirrel Nut Zippers…
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Kickstarter's exciting 24 hours →
“Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making… the list goes on. Here’s a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day’s events.”
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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases →
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Devs celebrate Double Fine's Kickstarter success →
Some backhanded compliments towards the end =). Exciting regardless.
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English plainclothes police officer follows... →
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Vim anti-patterns (geek.nz) →
Things you do in VIM but faster with more obscure and specific commands.
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Coding in Marble - Rico Mariani's Performance... →
In short: excessive use of promises leads to a ton of short lived objects and resulting poorer pref.
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Efficient Script Yielding →
The setImmediate DOM method is like window.setTimeout(callback, 0) but better.
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GLYPHICONS - icon library →
Library of simple and lovely icons available in smaller form for free under CC BY.
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Bootstrap 2 released →
An HTML and CSS UI framework - common icons and layout necessary for web apps - all free under Creative Commons BY and Apache 2
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“If there’s a way for a site to take dependency on a browser quirk, and break if...”
– -Eric Lawrence, Web Browser Legend
January 2012
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DRM is to publishing as science was to Stalinism →
I hadn’t heard of “Social DRM” (described in this article). Sounds like my blackmail DRM idea.
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"Forwarded HTTP Extension" - Andreas Petersson,... →
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"Unified User-Agent String (UUAS)" - Mateusz Karcz →
IETF draft on the contents of the User Agent HTTP header.
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This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)... →
Very impressive HTML, CSS, and no javascript game. See the HN comments for how it is done.
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Django Reinhardt-01-10 : Django Reinhardt : Free... →
This is Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy swing from the 30s and 40s on archive.org and it is all in the public domain. I didn’t know the term for the genre so it took me a while to find this.
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Herpderpedia, A Collection of Tweets by People... →
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Watch(via Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea): Clay Shirky on TED.com)
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