February 2012
29 posts
What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? →
Feb 11th
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“the W3C and the CSS Working Group are ineffective, failed organizations. The web...”
– Web Standards by Dustin Curtis /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577562
Feb 11th
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“Because complex systems have emergent behaviors, not resultant ones, it can be...”
– Each necessary, but only jointly sufficient /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576261
Feb 11th
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“Python has long been great for data munging and preparation, but less so for...”
– Python Data Analysis Library — pandas: Python Data Analysis Library /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576034
Feb 10th
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“SobekCM is the software engine which powers both the University of Florida...”
– SobekCM Home needs .net; MS-SQL server 2008; GPL v3
Feb 9th
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“GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of...”
– GRDDL Primer
Feb 9th
Interactive Word Clouds in D3.js →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571302
Feb 9th
“Triggr is an R package that transforms the regular session into a worker mode,...”
– mbq/Triggr - GitHub
Feb 9th
Python + Django + Rpy + R = Web App (by Simon... →
/via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3562410 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/R-web-apps-77616.S.91223876 http://opencpu.org/software/download/
Feb 9th
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“You have two jobs in any organization: create value effectively and communicate...”
– Agile Edge Cases | Tiny Giant Books /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3566766
Feb 9th
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Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web... →
The UC is a co-owner in the patent that could shut down the web; the UC created the prior art that could invalidate the patent; and someone from the UCB J-school wrote the article… Hopefully if the patent is valid the UC will at least get a deal on licensing it from itself.
Feb 9th
“The new Eolas suit has also put the University of California in an unprecedented...”
– Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3569094
Feb 9th
Open and Shut?: Elsevier’s Alicia Wise on the RWA,... →
Feb 8th
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your...”
– You Are Solving The Wrong Problem « Aza on Design /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3561397 discussed April 2011 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2591367
Feb 7th
“First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast.”
– Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3558618
Feb 6th
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“Instead of crafting the paginated URI in my iOS client, I should have been...”
– How I learned to stop worrying and love REST - Mike Mayo
Feb 6th
“Many platforms are springing up which enable research distribution to be...”
– The Future of Peer Review | TechCrunch /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554863
Feb 5th
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“Between 30 and 40 percent of films released on VHS may never be seen again on...”
– Rewind This! VHS Documentary Tells of Home Video Revolution | TechZwn /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3553583
Feb 5th
“be willing to politely and respectfully stand your ground when an internal...”
– Don’t be a Grin Fucker
Feb 5th
#Blacklight @ 2012 preconference proposals -... →
wiki: http://projectblacklight.org/ repo: https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight Installation screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLuHuoB8Z6w
Feb 4th
“The No. 1 issue in the tech world is as people get older, they generally become...”
– Vivek Wadhwa, an adviser to start-ups and an entrepreneurship scholar affiliated with Duke University quoted in Are Americans Losing High-Skilled Jobs to Foreigners? - ABC News /via Slashdot: President By Day, High-Tech Headhunter By Night
Feb 4th
“If we ever meet intelligent life forms from another part of the universe,...”
– Redis Manifesto /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549487
Feb 4th
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“Dependency hell is where you are when version lock and/or version promiscuity...”
– Semantic Versioning 2.0.0-rc.1 Specification for version numbers used by twitter in bootstrap
Feb 4th
PHP 5.3.10 release delivers a critical security... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547346 see also http://thexploit.com/sec/critical-php-remote-vulnerability-introduced-in-fix-for-php-hashtable-collision-dos/ PHP…
Feb 3rd
“Community feedback is great, but it should never be used as a crutch, a...”
– Coding Horror: Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3546738
Feb 3rd
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SSH tricks →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3543334
Feb 3rd
Feb 3rd
Mysteries of the Elsevier Boycott « The Scholarly... →
Feb 3rd
“For some web developers the need to understand the RDF data model and associated...”
– linked-data-api - API and formats to simplify use of linked data by web-developers - Google Project Hosting
Feb 1st
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“Secondly, the flexibility of Keith Packard’s Fontconfig library allows the...”
– Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems Why We Don’t Really Need Pan-Unicode Fonts Anymore
Feb 1st
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January 2012
79 posts
Quora’s Technology Examined | Big Fast Blog →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3532086
Jan 31st
2 notes
Welcome to XML Calabash →
implements http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/ — uses saxon — written by Norm Walsh — ships with <oXygen/>
Jan 31st
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Using Pygments from XSLT →
using jython to run python from saxon in XSLT
Jan 31st
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javascript - Alternatives to libxmljs - Stack... →
Jan 31st
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Connecting Backbone to XML Services in... →
Jan 31st
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“shocco is a quick-and-dirty, literate-programming-style documentation generator...”
– shocco.sh
Jan 31st
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tmpvar/jsdom - GitHub →
looks like a way to do XML in node is with jQuery
Jan 31st
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“Pycco” is a Python port of Docco: the original quick-and-dirty,...”
– main.py
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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SQLAlchemy vs Django DB : Python →
Jan 31st
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“Thor Power eliminated a tax dodge, and thereby made it more expensive for...”
– How Thor Power Hammered Publishing /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525675
Jan 29th
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Marc Stevens - Research - Single-block collision... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525497 Message 1 4d c9 68 ff 0e e3 5c 20 95 72 d4 77 7b 72 15 87 d3 6f a7 b2 1b dc 56 b7 4a 3d c0 78 3e 7b 95 18 af bf a2[00]a8 28 4b f3 6e 8e 4b 55 b3 5f 42 75 93 d8 49 67 6d a0 d1[55]5d 83 60 fb 5f 07 fe a2 Message 2 4d c9 68 ff 0e e3 5c 20 95 72 d4 77 7b 72 15...
Jan 29th
3 notes
Using Drush Make - building a base Drupal... →
Jan 29th
3 notes
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Re: [xsl] XHTML templating (best method) →
http://eric.van-der-vlist.com/blog/2006/06/02/2368_the_influence_of_microformats_on_style-free_stylesheets/ is and update of http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/07/26/xslt/xsltstyle.html
Jan 29th
1 tag
Home - datacatalogs.org →
yo, dawg, I heard you like datasets. So I put CKAN in your CKAN so you can catalog what is cataloged. But seriously, no entries from academic institutions? http://datacatalogs.org/group/academic_institutions
Jan 29th
WatchWatch
(via SNA Projects Blog : Tech Talk: Tom Hughes-Croucher (Joyent) — “Node.js at Scale”)
Jan 28th
“Some people believe that carrying out a large software project is like building...”
– Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off - Diego Basch’s Blog /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522537
Jan 28th
“In fact, even before hearing what the website would be for, you had already...”
– Sketchy Skechers.com - The Daily WTF Maybe one day I’ll end up on the front page of The Daily WTF and get to respond link this dev for the skechers.com did
Jan 28th
Santa Cruz GD Archive Opening in Spring | Grateful... →
Blair’s Golden Road Blog
Jan 27th
Publishing academic research data - bobdc.blog →
Jan 27th