kolber

pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though i were a man. when they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think i was “he” instead of “she” and so at first i did not say anything. i grinned and let them think i was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while i was uncomfortable. finally i said unto them that i, humdog, was a woman and not a man. this surprised them. at that moment i realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

relsqui

#!/usr/bin/python

from urllib2 import urlopen
from json import loads
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from math import floor

TRIMET_API_KEY = "" # redacted for privacy

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

revolunet

AngularJS best ressources

Following the AngularJS PARIS meetup (25/2 à 19h à Paris with @sampaccoud @dzen @_kemar @tchack13 @vinz et @revolunet)

Here's our best AngularJS ressources : twitter, github, articles & blogs. Please comment and add your good stuff !

• AngularJS VS jQuery : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14994391/how-do-i-think-in-angularjs-if-i-have-a-jquery-background/15012542#15012542 (MUST READ for beginners)
• What are the nuances of scope prototypal / prototypical inheritance in AngularJS? : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14049480/what-are-the-nuances-of-scope-prototypal-prototypical-inheritance-in-angularjs (MUST READ)
• twitter list maintained here: https://twitter.com/revolunet/angularjs
• must see vidéos :http://egghead.io (MUST SEE)

honza

Haskell vs Clojure

The JSON data is in the following format

{
    "Genesis": {
        "1": {
            "1": "In the beginning..." ,
            "2": "..."

zspecza

Stylus Best Practices

Introduction

This is a curated set of conventions and best practices for Stylus, an expressive, dynamic, robust and advanced CSS preprocessor. Frustrated with there not being a set of conventions set in place (that could be easily found), I set forth to find out on my own.

dmglab

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Note: this is a summary of different git workflows putting together to a small git bible. references are in between the text

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How to Branch

try to keep your hacking out of the master and create feature branches. the [feature-branch workflow][4] is a good median between noobs (i have no idea how to branch) and git veterans (let's do some rocket sience with git branches!). everybody get the idea!

Basic usage examples

kyledrake

# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
#
# Current known FCC address ranges:
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
#
# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
#
# In your nginx.conf:

location / {

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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