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Observing Ramadan [PICS] (31)
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Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Observant Muslims participate in fasting (sawm), one of the five pillars of their faith, this entire Lunar month (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th). Eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity is prohibited from dawn until sunset, when the fast is broken with the evening meal called Iftar. Local customs define varying traditions, including differing types of food used ...Shared by Adam Helweh (45) Alex (11) Andrés Milleiro (33) Awab (13) B.M. (18) Blair (23) browneyes (22) charles (297) Cris (0) doxdo.net (18) DVD (18) EggHe/\D (15) Engin (2) Ethan (7) Eyki (21) jacobo (9) Jeton (30) Jochen (9) Jorge Wagner (54) Julio (7) Kesor (6) MakeUseOf (9) Mark (19) McBilly Wilford Sy (32) Michael Mior (79) MMS (18) Rakki MK (1) Stuart F (30) Suzanne Reed (88) Vox (40) wirx (9)Contribute comment -
Israeli hamlet plans DNA database for dog poop (1)
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Science triumphs over common sense An Israeli city hopes to use DNA analysis in the fight against dog poop littering its footpaths.…Shared by Kesor (6)Contribute comment -
2 more Gmail Labs for Wednesday (24)
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Posted by Emily Chang, Gmail engineerAs a Google engineer, I get a 24-inch widescreen monitor and a huge amount of email. I built a Labs feature to use the former to mitigate the latter.In my work email, I have painfully long lists in both Labels and Chat, so I used to scroll constantly in order to see my Labels. Now, with Right-side Labels enabled, I can see both my Labels and my Chat buddies at ...Shared by Alex (21) Berker (20) Bonstio (23) c0wb0yz (26) Chris K (11) Ed (51) Foremire (13) heping (20) HH (21) Jamie (6) Jeff (10) Jeton (30) Keith Coleman (1) Kesor (6) macbeach (14) mariano (20) Mattodono (39) mubbashir (18) Nkululeko Masondo (20) PlanningQueen (17) Qian (28) Shane (10) symtym (22) zaniele (18)Contribute comment -
DNS Prefetching (or Pre-Resolving) (9)
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A major goal of Google Chrome was to improve user enjoyment and value in web surfing. Critical to that is increasing the responsiveness of the browser to user input, or reducing user perceived latency. Measurements in the browser have shown that a significant amount of time is traditionally spent waiting for DNS to resolve domain names. To speed up browsing, Google Chrome resolves domain names before the user navigates, typically while the user is viewing ...Shared by Angus (32) Caleb Elston (0) DarkBls (30) elmarco (33) Jeremy (16) Kesor (6) met (5) phillip (46) Tommaso Passi (19)Contribute comment -
S'kiddies light-up LHC website (1)
onSlip in through wormhole Web defacers hacked into the computer network at CERN to spray digital graffiti on a website connected with the Large Hadron Collider project last week.…Shared by Kesor (6)Contribute comment
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The 6 Types of Software Engineers: Identification, Care and Feeding (3)
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The Cranky Product Manager is on vacation, but in her stead the CPM found a WICKED AWESOME guest blogger, an extremely talented writer/product manager/mom with the nom de plume "Another PM." Her post is below, and it is so good and so TRUE... Damn, the Cranky Product Manager wishes she wrote it herself. Please give "Another PM" feedback in the comments. We bloggers live for comments. Enjoy and see you in a week or two ...Contribute comment -
Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up (63)
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The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don't leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together a cool video animation (below). Stephen Shankland of CNET has the story: GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters... Google, though, is permitted to use ...Shared by adam (1018) Alex (4) Andrew (12) arshad (37) AshTR (40) Atul Karmarkar (6) Avi (16) bittin (286) Brian (169) broepke (0) Cam (2) Cameron (20) CaptainGrapes (0) chris (320) Chris (28) Dan Frommer (2) Dani McDaniel (47) Dave (106) diego (38) Donald Jenkins (6) Eldon (22) Eric Chen (33) flaminglacer (18) James McQuillan (50) Javed (155) Jay Barcelo (14) Jeff (159) Jeremy Jarratt (33) Joel (4) Joh Rogers (32) Kesor (6) Kevin Federline (23) Kristen (18) Kurt (26) Leximo (37) Matt Lopez (26) mattlopez (24) meatwaddancin (5) Mike Grybos (23) neal (402) Patrick (41) Paul (4) pax (18) polizeros (25) Primoz (14) ProfVegas (231) renganathan (98) Rick Butterfield (49) Riley (7) Ritu (639) rob (32) Robert (57) Robert (28) rzklkng (202) Shankar Ganesh (75) Sweevo (20) tonyleachsf (14) Trebel (20) Tyson Williams (94) webtime (417) zizzy (6)Contribute comment -
Challenges of building modern web apps with all the browsers out there (thanks to everyone who made IE6 Gmail work!) (35)
onPosted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users. Since then, we've added support for Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and improved performance in other browsers. This new code base included major performance improvements and provided us with a solid foundation for launching new features such as colored labels, group chat and rich emoticons, invisible mode, AIM integration, ...Shared by [Curtis W] (43) Aelle (28) Atilano (20) atul (153) Berker (20) bittin (286) Bruce (7) Chad (57) Compuwizard123 (40) Dadone (12) Dan McCall (26) darkeye11547 (179) Dileepa (22) dobata (307) Emil Kaiser (14) Eric Chen (33) Jigar Mehta (3) kamthorn (21) keith (85) Keith Coleman (1) Kesor (6) kmohr25 (26) Masashi Oka (25) Matteo Rossini (8) Mike F (651) Nick Cobb (89) Omar Abid (27) OrchardKeeper (17) Peter (19) Peter R. Wood (4) Steve (221) Tony Ruscoe (21) Unseen (33) Wu-Man (David Wu) (16) 猫影 (27)Explore read five notes
- Kesor said: some companies don't have this privilege to talk to microsoft and ask them to fix IE6 with a critical update to their buggy javascript implementation. guess only developers that can use microsoft product in a way that they work are other huge corporations, like google for example.
- kmohr25 said: HAHAHAHAHA
- Atilano said: Who the hell in their right mind would choose to use IE6, or any version of IE for that matter?
- Emil Kaiser said: Trist. Hade varit skönt om Google tagit täten med att knuffa bort IE6...
- Peter said: I guess if google's willing to make IE6 work for gmail, we should make it work for laboratree.
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Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me (5)
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Police prevented Rage Against The Machine from performing outside the RNC. Police at the RNC also violently assaulted journalists and illegally raided people's homes.When I first learned of this, I was outraged the police violence wasn't making a dent on the headlines of my favorite newspaper, but digging deeper into the top stories made it clear enough why: the Republicans haven't just failed at instituting a police state, they've deteriorated into some kind of Muppet ...- Kesor said: R-A-T-M kick ass!
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PUMA (74)
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PUMA picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: » Recaption ThisShared by .mau. (26) Adre (35) Amihai (24) Andrea (16) angela (18) Angelica (14) Babak (20) Bartu (3) Ben (14) billy (16) Brent (15) Carlos (49) CED (8) Chu Yeow (17) codL (25) CrazyVet (4) d1g1t (119) darkeye11547 (179) Darko (0) Denise (3) djspark (66) Dominic Hopton (54) DoomHammer (18) DRT (24) Edney Souza (38) Evaristo (30) GeniusBoyWonder (27) giobi (19) GraveHeart (21) graywolf (15) Han (20) HejGustav (24) Ian (129) Ian (17) Icefreez (19) jadielady (38) Jaemi kehoe (31) Jake (17) Jameson (17) Jeff Crump (24) Jeremy Botter (33) Jordan Bracco (23) karabatov (10) Kat (45) Kate Kapetanakis (22) Kesor (6) Kris (42) Kyle (28) lauren pressley (21) Lee (15) Leo (3) Lindsey Smith (51) Lucas (22) Mathy (23) Matt (19) moedusa (16) Nicki (43) pigpogm (22) PvUtrix (20) Radovan (38) Rafael (20) Rafael Capanema (25) RivenStar (18) Sarah (0) Serginho (5) ShmoolikiPod (20) Shoshannah F (52) Steve (17) Stingray (83) Tim (21) Tor Erling (22) Tori (9) Tyler N. (12) Yvette (25)Explore read five notes- Jeff Crump said: Awesome.
- Kesor said: Special share for my friend rsiv
- Tori said: awwwwww... puma!!!
- Jake said: Best lolcat ever.
- Jaemi kehoe said: awwwwww
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Great Developers Are Hard To Find, Regardless of Language (12)
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Matt Aimonetti has a client that believes Rubyists don't scale. Sorry Matt, your client is wrong.It's as easy to hire great Ruby programmers as it is to hire great Java programmers or great programmers for any given popular language.The problem is, it's not easy to hire great programmers in any language. Worse, companies still think they need to hire one or two great programmers and a supporting cast of average programmers. As Martin Fowler pointed ...Shared by Bryan Ray (7) dwfrank (20) Eric (41) genki (8) Jana (38) jetienne (21) John (4) Kesor (6) Matthew (20) mkrisher (20) Pickles (16) veilleperso (16)- Bryan Ray said: Good post.
- veilleperso said: De la différence entre bon et mauvais programmeur et pourquoi constituer une équipe de développeurs moyens n'est pas nécessairement une bonne idée...
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Google Expands Its Wiki Approach to Map Making (India Edition) (31)
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When it comes to the availability of good mapping data, not all parts of the world are created equal. That’s why Google is taking a wiki approach to filling out the white spaces on its maps, particularly in developing nations. Back in June, it launched Map Maker for a small group of island nations where there isn’t great existing cartography data. But now it’s added India to the countries that can be modified on Google ...Shared by aemkei (32) Archit T (15) Brad (10) chexov (24) Craig (5) David Feng (5) Dileepa (22) Dr. Sam (21) Emil Kaiser (14) George Siemens (1) hyderabadblues (24) Igor Schwarzmann (5) James Forbes Keir (23) Jesús Zamorano (9) Kells Nollenberger (19) Kesor (6) Kunal (14) Mark Whiting (20) Matthew (21) mdhussainpmk (41) mech (32) Michel Bauwens (148) Philou (7) Rajiv R (1) rjhintz (47) Satej Sirur (19) Selwin (54) small (30) Stavros (25) Tomi (27) Zsombor (19)Explore read four notes- Kells Nollenberger said: I hope they do this here. Google maps needs some serious editing by the masses. Wiki would be the way to go.
- Kesor said: Cyprus gets this feature, but Israel doesn't??? C'mon Google!Give us the wiki! We wants it. My precious.
- mech said: Thank You Google once again!
- Mark Whiting said: I really like this thing however I think they need to make it monotized for contributors and I think they need to make it available in more places.
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Google Expands Its Wiki Approach to Map Making (India Edition) (27)
onWhen it comes to the availability of good mapping data, not all parts of the world are created equal. That’s why Google is taking a wiki approach to filling out the white spaces on its maps, particularly in developing nations. Back in June, it launched Map Maker for a small group of island nations where there isn’t great existing cartography data. But now it’s added India to the countries that can be modified on Google ...Shared by aemkei (32) Andrei (25) Archit T (15) Craig (5) David Feng (5) Dr. Sam (21) Emil Kaiser (14) Gautam (45) hyderabadblues (24) Jesús Zamorano (9) Kells Nollenberger (19) Kesor (6) Kunal (14) Mark Whiting (20) Matthew (21) mdhussainpmk (41) Philou (7) Rajiv R (1) rjhintz (47) Saket (31) Satej Sirur (19) Selwin (54) Sid (9) small (30) Tomi (27) Zoram (32) Zsombor (19)
- Mark Whiting said: I really like this thing however I think they need to make it monotized for contributors and I think they need to make it available in more places.
- Kells Nollenberger said: I hope they do this here. Google maps needs some serious editing by the masses. Wiki would be the way to go.
- Kesor said: Cyprus gets this feature, but Israel doesn't??? C'mon Google!Give us the wiki! We wants it. My precious.
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Hey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? (56)
onHey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… Take all the bamboo you want… i gotz 2 feed awl of da hungree pandaz. picture: Me. lol caption: christym111 » Recaption ThisShared by Alan (13) alden (3) Alexandru Savu (36) Amihai (24) Amish (8) Armbar (24) Bill (20) Chimpadink (21) Damon (18) Dan (20) Dan (21) danb420 (42) Daniel (1) Datch (30) Eric (0) fern (30) geeker87 (7) ghosttie (33) gizmo (29) GregEh (12) Gutshot (20) hornbeck (19) iBspoof (23) Ingotheranchhand (19) Jaime (34) Jameson (17) Kesor (6) Lien (19) Lucas (22) Magnus (20) marcel weiß (34) Mathy (23) Matt (19) Megan (0) Mike Mol (16) n8dude (53) Nicki (43) ORB (5) Owen (20) Peter (22) Phillie Casablanca (21) Rafael (20) Rafael Capanema (25) Reymond (30) Rob (49) salehoffline (23) Sean (40) stantont (20) ThomasHan (29) trygve (29) Tully (21) Uno (19) Venci (11) vforrestal (20) virtualcourtney (3) Walter DeFoor (27)Contribute comment
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Hey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… (53)
onHey man, it’s cool… it’s cool… Take all the bamboo you want… i gotz 2 feed awl of da hungree pandaz. picture: Me. lol caption: christym111 » Recaption ThisShared by Alan (13) alden (3) Alexandru Savu (36) Amihai (24) André (20) CesarS (32) Chimpadink (21) Damon (18) Dan (21) Daniel (1) Eric (0) fern (30) geeker87 (7) gizmo (29) GregEh (12) Gutshot (20) Hannibal (41) hornbeck (19) iBspoof (23) jadielady (38) Jaemi kehoe (31) Jaime (34) Jameson (17) Kesor (6) Lucas (22) Magnus (20) Mathy (23) Matt (19) Megan (0) mhking (54) Mike Mol (16) N.L. Vivar (20) n8dude (53) Nicki (43) ORB (5) Owen (20) Peter (22) Phillie Casablanca (21) Rafael (20) Rafael Capanema (25) RaynerApe (66) Reymond (30) Rob (49) salehoffline (23) Sean (40) Stingray (83) ThomasHan (29) Tor Erling (22) Tully (21) Uno (19) Vipul (174) virtualcourtney (3) Whiz (33)
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- Jaemi kehoe said: Awww
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Some functional programming and OCaml koans (4)
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let rec One day, a disciple of another sect came to Xavier Leroy and said mockingly: "The OCaml compiler seems very limited: why do you have to indicate when a function is recursive, cannot the compiler infer it?" Xavier paused for a second, and replied patiently with the following story: "One day, a disciple of another sect came to Xavier Leroy and said mockingly..." Polymorphic answers A novice came to Jacques Garrigue and spoke nervously: ...- stern said: At that moment, the student became enlightened.
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blue screen of death (44)
onblue screen of death claims ‘nuther victm. dese kittehs survivd. picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: valRearden » Recaption ThisShared by (jeff)isageek (17) Amihai (24) André (20) Ashe (22) Aurélien Bompard (15) BIGODE (30) Bill (6) CesarS (32) CrazyVet (4) Danielle (52) DarK FlameS (46) darkeye11547 (179) Darkick (18) diffus (20) djspark (66) Doris (1) enc (20) Gutshot (20) ivko (3) Karie (25) Kate Kapetanakis (22) Kesor (6) L'oracolo (22) Mattodono (39) Meagan (19) Mike Mol (16) Mikey (68) Nathania (52) Nick (56) Nicki (43) Olivia Maia (21) ORB (5) Paolo Amoroso (16) Rafael Capanema (25) Rob (49) Shoshannah F (52) Steve (57) Stingray (83) ThomasHan (29) Tor Erling (22) Tully (21) Venci (11) virtualcourtney (3) vrillusions (18)
- ORB said: ohkay, ohkay, ppl who wantz de catz, just subscribe to http://icanhascheezburger.com/ somehow some ppl r not finding them funny. dont share these
- DarK FlameS said: O Melhor LoLcat ever
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