Interesting: DARPA is running a challenge for clothing assembled by robots: http://t.co/oJrcSsG03F For many people today it's a job.
miniblog.
Ah, looks like the benchmarks game site suffered multiple hard drive failures: http://t.co/2dy9YdYOq7
It's depressing how often I end up using wayback for reading articles. URLs are neither stable nor even available for very long.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game looks like it's down. How will we settle all our programming language arguments now?
The large majority of my typos are other words that are validly spelled. I fear I'm developing a wetware autocorrect.
Sandboxing extensions to native JS objects using iframes: http://t.co/Uuti12lrqE -- really neat solution.
"So eval is not safe, even if you remove all the globals and the builtins!" Fascinating Python sandboxing discussion. http://t.co/gecuolfyaT
Really impressed with bower. I only wish I'd started using it earlier.
npm is growing at an extraordinary rate: http://t.co/B48H9pUeq9 -- huge testament to the package.json format. Declarative files work well.
There are *three* web browsers implemented in Emacs. Cripes. W3, ewb and eww. eww looks impressive and will be in Emacs 24.4.
Argh. It's a pain (if ironic) when your monitoring service dies.
Tim Toady Bicarbonate.
It took several really bad admin panel UIs to make me realise that I rarely notice usability, just its absence.
It's not done when it's written, debugged, tested, reviewed, merged or tagged. It's done when the user can use it.
What will forever be exclusive to Python 3? http://t.co/gWlf6kS7WZ -- I learnt about several new Python 2 things here!
I'm also delighted to see my usability improvements to URL reversing https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17076 in Django 1.6.
"The Model.save() method now tries to directly UPDATE the database if the instance has a primary key value."Django 1.6 is a big improvement!
In Django, .is_superuser gives a user all permissions, but you *still* need to set .is_staff to access everything.
"Every user is a non-javascript user while your page is loading." -- Scott Jehl
Really impressive 'literate programming for calculators' http://t.co/hBoSXGoz7Q
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