February 2012
29 posts
What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? →
“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
“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
“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
“SobekCM is the software engine which powers both the University of Florida...”
– SobekCM Home
needs .net; MS-SQL server 2008; GPL v3
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“GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of...”
– GRDDL Primer
Interactive Word Clouds in D3.js →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571302
“Triggr is an R package that transforms the regular session into a worker mode,...”
– mbq/Triggr - GitHub
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/
“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
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.
“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
Open and Shut?: Elsevier’s Alicia Wise on the RWA,... →
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“be willing to politely and respectfully stand your ground when an internal...”
– Don’t be a Grin Fucker
#Blacklight @ 2012 preconference proposals -... →
wiki: http://projectblacklight.org/
repo: https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight
Installation screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLuHuoB8Z6w
“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
“If we ever meet intelligent life forms from another part of the universe,...”
– Redis Manifesto /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549487
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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
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…
“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
SSH tricks →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3543334
Mysteries of the Elsevier Boycott « The Scholarly... →
“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
“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
January 2012
79 posts
Quora’s Technology Examined | Big Fast Blog →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3532086
Welcome to XML Calabash →
implements http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/ — uses saxon — written by Norm Walsh — ships with <oXygen/>
Using Pygments from XSLT →
using jython to run python from saxon in XSLT
javascript - Alternatives to libxmljs - Stack... →
Connecting Backbone to XML Services in... →
“shocco is a quick-and-dirty, literate-programming-style documentation generator...”
– shocco.sh
tmpvar/jsdom - GitHub →
looks like a way to do XML in node is with jQuery
“Pycco” is a Python port of Docco: the original quick-and-dirty,...”
– main.py
SQLAlchemy vs Django DB : Python →
“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
Marc Stevens - Research - Single-block collision... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525497
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Using Drush Make - building a base Drupal... →
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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
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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
Watch(via SNA Projects Blog : Tech Talk: Tom Hughes-Croucher (Joyent) — “Node.js at Scale”)
“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
“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
Santa Cruz GD Archive Opening in Spring | Grateful... →
Blair’s Golden Road Blog
Publishing academic research data - bobdc.blog →