knowbody

{ fontWeight: '100' }, // Thin
{ fontWeight: '200' }, // Ultra Light
{ fontWeight: '300' }, // Light
{ fontWeight: '400' }, // Regular
{ fontWeight: '500' }, // Medium
{ fontWeight: '600' }, // Semibold
{ fontWeight: '700' }, // Bold
{ fontWeight: '800' }, // Heavy
{ fontWeight: '900' }, // Black

sergeyklay

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Works fine on Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS

NGINX_VERSION="1.9.9"
NCHAN_VERSION="0.97"
HEADERS_MORE_VERSION="0.29"
DEV_KIT_VERSION="0.2.19"
ECHO_VERSION="0.58"
FANCY_INDEX_VERSION="0.3.5"

staltz

let Rx = require(`rx`)

function makeRequestProxies(drivers) {
  let requestProxies = {}
  for (let name in drivers) {
    if (drivers.hasOwnProperty(name)) {
      requestProxies[name] = new Rx.ReplaySubject(1)
    }
  }
  return requestProxies

sritchie

(ns racehub.om.facebook
  (:require [cljs.core.async :as a]
            [racehub.schema :as rs]
            [schema.core :as s :include-macros true]))

;; ## Utilities

(defn prune
  "Takes a mapping of keys -> new key names and a map and returns a
  map with nils removed and keys swapped where they're present in the

jm3

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, or, “Looking for the Mouse”

Clay Shirky / April 26, 2008

transcription of a speech [Clay Shirky] gave at the Web 2.0 in 2008, emphasis by @jm3

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of th