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“Fighting is better than this waiting. You don’t feel so...

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:46:24 -0700

“Fighting is better than this waiting. You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you’re armored it’s hard for anyone to hurt you.”

Photo

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:31:20 -0700

Photo

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:16:01 -0700

larislikes: Peanuts - Game Of Thrones

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:20:14 -0700

larislikes:

Peanuts - Game Of Thrones

RubyInstaller for Windows

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:31:08 -0700

RubyInstaller for Windows

Focus.py by amoffat

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:16:22 -0700

Focus.py by amoffat

yummy. foodaday: Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day (May...

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:31:58 -0700

yummy.

foodaday:

Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day (May 14).

Plumbum - Pythonic, cross-platform shell syntax

Sat, 12 May 2012 11:09:13 -0700

Plumbum - Pythonic, cross-platform shell syntax:

thechangelog:

Plumbum is an interesting project from Tomer Filiba that aims to bring shell syntax to Python scripts:

The motto of the library is “Never write shell scripts again”, and thus it attempts to mimic the shell syntax (shell combinators) where it makes sense, while keeping it all pythonic and cross-platform.

A piping example:
>>> chain = ls["-a"] | grep["-v", "\\.py"] | wc["-l"]
>>> print chain
/bin/ls -a | /bin/grep -v '\.py' | /usr/bin/wc -l
>>> chain()
u'13\n'
In addition to piping, Plumbum supports redirection and even remote commands over SSH. Check out the source on GitHub, Tomer’s introductory blog post or the excellent project docs for more.

cssarrowplease

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:46:04 -0700

cssarrowplease

DragonDrop, from ShinyPlasticBag

Wed, 09 May 2012 19:31:09 -0700

DragonDrop, from ShinyPlasticBag

Searching the bottom of the web

Wed, 09 May 2012 18:16:04 -0700

Searching the bottom of the web:

Must try this!

html shell

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:56:06 -0700

html shell:

Love the turtle.

Add to queue on tumblr

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:41:29 -0700

Add to queue on tumblr:

Using Chrome or Greasemonkey for Firefox, set tumblr to “add to queue” instead of post now. Awesome!!

pathod

Wed, 02 May 2012 19:20:52 -0700

pathod:

pathod, a pathological HTTP/S daemon useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. At its core is a tiny, terse language for crafting HTTP responses. It also has a built-in web interface that lets you play with the response spec language, inspect logs, and access pathod’s full help document.

I love torturing http clients.

Sascha Meinrath - The Battle for Communications Justice: An Open Spectrum Manifesto

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:12:54 -0700

Is this the death of net neutrality? Should carrier level ISP be a public utility separate from telco?

Broadband is still relatively cost-prohibitive, and New America Foundation’s Sascha Meinrath has a solution. Rather than having carriers provide all bandwidth for customers, the online market is heading towards a model where apps and data are based on free delivery concepts with pre-loaded bandwidth paid for by the advertiser. Describing the hypothetical and, he says, probably inevitable future of apps, Meinrath discusses the possibilities of content providers paying for select bandwidth in order to ensure large-scale access.

Title Sascha Meinrath - The Battle for Communications Justice: An Open Spectrum Manifesto
Published April 29, 2012 9:00 PM
Genre Technology
Language English
Country United States
Copyright Copyright (c) 2008, The Conversations Network
Owner The Conversations Network
Duration 18 min
File 8.51 mb
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Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced!

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:26:07 -0700

Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced!:

thechangelog:

Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner.

Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub!

The original Prince of Persia source code recently “just turned up” after being lost for 22 years. Jordan Mechner and two stalwart companions dedicated most of a day and night extracting the source and posting it on github. His friend Jamie — who knows the term “source code” primarily as the title of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal did after Prince of Persia — looking as confused as before, asked “Why?!?”

Why the source code?

Why spend a whole day trying to recover data from some ancient floppy disks?

“Because if we didn’t, it might have disappeared forever.”

Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that’s already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for?

You don’t, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.

It’s possible, up to a point, to reverse-engineer new source code from a published video game, much as a capable musician can transcribe a musical score from listening to a performance. But in both cases, there’s no substitute for the original document as a direct line to the creator’s intentions and work process. As such, it has both practical and historical value, to the small subset of the game-playing/music-listening community that cares.

Source on GitHub - Blog Post - Image by Jason “Textfiles” Scott

onethingwell: grc—the Generic Colouriser—lets you add colour to...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:23:20 -0700

onethingwell:

grc—the Generic Colouriser—lets you add colour to the output of commands. It comes with configuration files for various popular commands (e.g. ping, shown above).

Via Wynn Netherland.

Photo

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:23:01 -0700

Rivers of lambdas: Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:20:05 -0700

Rivers of lambdas: Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript:

riversoflambdas:

Tell me why I should enable it.

I was just linked, from a random