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: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO -- More than a century after their invention, cable cars still carry passengers up and over this city's hills. The picturesque mode of transport narrowly escaped extinction after the 1906 earthquake, which devastated the city as well as the cable car barn and tracks. New tracks were laid and the system was rebuilt -- despite the advent of more cost-effective electric streetcars -- partially due to cable cars' superior ability ...
Hitchens : Luskin :: Lion : Mouse (1)
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Christopher Hitchens was impressed by the existence of blind cave organisms, and wrote that they argue against a linear progression in evolution. He's quite right; creationism doesn't explain why their god tossed in to salamanders and fish a collection of complex developmental mechanisms that the animals simply throw away and do not use. Evolution does — descent from a sighted ancestor explains how blind cave animals can still possess the machinery for a lost organ. ...
Understanding The Hardware (69)
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I got a call from Rob Conery today asking for advice on building his own computer. Rob works for Microsoft, but lives in Hawaii. I'm not sure how he managed that, but being so far from the mothership apparently means he has the flexibility to spec his own PC. Being stuck in Hawaii is, I'm sure, a total bummer, dude. Rob and I may disagree on pretty much everything from a coding perspective, but we ...
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Christian said:
La bonne config
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Clint Ecker said:
There is pretty much no way you could pay me to build a computer from scratch these days. I had my heyday in high school and college building computers but I can't deal with those headaches anymore.
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Srinvard said:
Build a computer!
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panuta said:
Recommended cooler is interesting
Adeona: An open source laptop tracking system (19)
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Filed under: laptops hacks, security hacksAdeona is an open source internet-based laptop tracking system that is free to use. It's available for Linux, OSX, and Windows XP/Vista. After installation, Adeona will submit at random intervals, anonymously encrypted updates on the computer's location to servers on the Internet, specifically to OpenDHT, a free storage service. The information is kept on the servers for one week. If your laptop becomes lost or stolen, you can use the ...
Estonian meat commercial (4)
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Nokia E71 Is a Legit iPhone Killer We're Serious This Time (14)
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There may be a glut of devices trying to beat the iPhone out there but none of them come close to eclipsing the Jesus phone. Now we have a true contender. The Nokia E71 is everything the iPhone 3G isn't: open source, easy to type on, loaded with a decent camera and great business apps. Oh yeah, it's unlocked too.
Legal pot in California (13)
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In California, it's pretty much legal now to buy, sell, grow, and smoke pot, provided you've got the proper documentation from a doctor, which is pretty easy to get. This article from the New Yorker details the industry that's sprung up around this legalization, filled with people who, you get the feeling, really like smoking pot for recreational and not medical reasons. The counties of California were allowed to amend the state guidelines, and the ...
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Leon said:
and why am i still on the east coast? ;)
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Serginho said:
Li essa semana. É sensacional. Não perdão (?)
Bigfoot vs Unicorn T-Shirt (3)
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Is an explanation really needed? Mythical mayhem can be yours for the wearing with the Bigfoot vs Unicorn T-Shirt ($30). [via]...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
UV drip bicycle tracker (2)
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Filed under: transportation hacks, daily[Che-Wei Wang] has a few more projects up his sleeve aside from his pneumatic power suit. This is a bit artsy, but he created an ultraviolet ink dropper to leave a trail of invisible ink wherever he rides his bike. Just think of it as a modernized version of [MacGyver]'s paint can under the bad guys car tracking system.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
How to Write 3v1L, Untestable Code (34)
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by Miško Hevery, Jonathan Wolter, Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected GooglersThis guide lists principles that will help you write impossible to tests code. Or, avoiding these techniques will help you write code that can be tested. Make Your Own Dependencies - Instantiate objects using new in the middle of methods, don't pass the object in. This is evil because whenever you new up an object inside a block of code ...
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Karpuscul said:
Лучший пост про тестирование за всю мою жизнь! Be evil ;)
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Steve said:
I'm not sure that "Be Defensive" is a bad thing--but good (anti)advice overall..
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glongman said:
required reading!!!!!!!!!!
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kalle said:
Utils (toolboxes) ftw! More static ftw!
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Robert Conn said:
Really detailed article that will make you a better tester, good stuff!
JavaScript Micro-Templating (33)
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I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building endeavors. It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to mess with. Here's the source code to the templating function (a more-refined version of this code will be in my ...
A Terrorist Fist Jab (1)
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Braised enterovirus, anyone? (4)
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Sara Scharf sent in a link to a Chinese menu picture from the Bad Translations group on flickr: Victor Mair explains that 干锅肥肠 GAN1GUO1 FEI2CHANG2 — literally "dry pot fatty intestine" — is a popular Sichuanese-Hunanese dish, illustrated and explained here. Victor continues: A bilingual list of terms containing 肠 CHANG2 "intestine" is here. The Chinese word for enterovirus is CHANG2 BING4DU2 or CHANG2DAO4 BING4DU2 肠（道）病毒. As you can see, neither by confusion of sound ...
Google Pushes Towards 70 Percent of All U.S. Searches; Yahoo, Microsoft Push Towards Zero Percent (13)
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The ascent continues. Google accounted for a ridiculous 69.17 percent of all U.S. search in June, according to new data from Hitwise. What’s even more ridiculous is that the search engine is still adding market share. One year ago it accounted for 63.92 percent. Just last month it was at 68.29 percent. For Google to keep gaining market share, someone else has to lose it. In this case it is once again Yahoo Search and ...
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symesc said:
Yeah, this one-trick pony of a company appears to have a good horse.
Magnetic Movie (2)
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Filed under: misc hacksMagnetic field lines may be invisible to the naked eye, but they behave in ways that would amaze us if only we could see them. [Ruth Jarman] and [Joe Gerhardt] from Semiconductor wanted to make them visible for everyone, so they produced Magnetic Movie, a film that combines animations, theoretical models, and actual VLF recordings of the entire Earth's magetic forces to create a film that shows magnetic fields moving and jumping ...
Amazing New Cell Phone in AT&T Stores This Friday (1)
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NY Times Story on iPhone App Store (2)
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John Markoff and Laura M. Holson, on the debuting-in-a-few-hours App Store: Twenty-five percent of the first 500 applications at the store will be free, Mr. Jobs said. Of the commercial applications, 90 percent will be sold for $9.99 or less, he said, adding that a third of the first wave of applications will be games. The sidebar features a preview of all three apps from Tapulous — not a bad publicity coup at all for ...
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fb2 said:
rettenet izgulok, hogy megy-e majd az iTunes accountommal gond nelkul az App Store vasarlas.
New Sparkfun designs (2)
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Filed under: newsSparkfun has recently released a bevy of new boards and other devices, with some very intriguing new builds among them.The first board that caught our attention is the Wee. It is a compact Arduino compatible controller that features a small size, low voltage, and many other minimalist attributes. It is built around an ATMega 168V and uses all SMD parts. For even tinier fun, check out the LilyPad LED. It is a LED ...
Don't You Feel Safer Now That Google Added A Link To Its Privacy Policy? (1)
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One of the more idiotic accusations thrown at Google of late was this idea that it was somehow a problem that it didn't link directly to its privacy policy from its home page. It had a privacy policy. That privacy policy was easy to find. Almost no one actually reads its privacy policy -- but a bunch of privacy groups who surely had more important things to spend their time on got all upset that ...
