two scoops

soupsoup: Best fish tank ever (via @nickbilton)

kweerious — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:43:02 -0400

soupsoup:

Best fish tank ever (via @nickbilton)

lyle-troxell: Simple Desk for Coding Considering recent...

kweerious — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:41:08 -0400

lyle-troxell:

Simple Desk for Coding

Considering recent numbness…this would be a great desk for me…to bad it requires ceilings.

"My friend Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, has now sent me this refactored code for..."

kweerious — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:20:47 -0500

“My friend Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, has now sent me this refactored code for hiding text, which I hereby christen the Kellum Method: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } Really long strings of text will never flow into the container because they always flow away from the container. Performance is dramatically improved because a 9999px box is not drawn. Noticeably so in animations on the iPad 1.”

- Always improving…

— zeldman.com

"Transaction complete. Thank you! To prove you are a human, demonstrate that you are capable of love..."

kweerious — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:38:22 -0500

“

Transaction complete. Thank you! To prove you are a human, demonstrate that you are capable of love in the box below:

Sorry. That was infatuation, at best.

”

- Password Check - NYTimes.com

"And at last the warrior arrived at the Router. It was a dusty black box with an array of shimmering..."

kweerious — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:11:32 -0500

“And at last the warrior arrived at the Router. It was a dusty black box with an array of shimmering green lights, blinking on and off, as if to taunt him to come any further. The warrior swiftly maneuvered to the rear of the router and verified what he had feared, what he had heard whispered in his ear from spirits beyond: all the cords were securely in place. The warrior closed his eyes, summoning the power of his ancestors, long departed but watchful still. And then with the echoing beep of his digital watch, he moved with deadly speed, wrapping his battle-hardened hands around the power cord at the back of the Router. Gripping it tightly, he pulled with all his force, dislodging the cord from the Router. The heavens roared. The earth wailed. The green lights turned off. Silently the warrior counted. One. Two. Three. And just as swiftly, the warrior plugged the cord back into the router. Great crashes of blood-red lightning boomed overhead. Murders of crows blackened the skies. The Power light came on solid green. The seas rolled. The WLAN light blinked on. The forests ignited. A dark fog rolled over the land and suddenly all was silent. The warrior stared at the Internet light, waiting, waiting. And then, as the world around him seemed all but dead, the Internet light began to blink.”

- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.

YTCracker, my intro to Nerdcore and still my favorite. Check out...

kweerious — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:07:58 -0500

YTCracker, my intro to Nerdcore and still my favorite. Check out the free NerdRap Entertainment System mp3s.

Man, makes me miss Surge

"People think that Napster liberated recorded music by making it available at no monetary cost, but..."

kweerious — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:21:26 -0500

“People think that Napster liberated recorded music by making it available at no monetary cost, but that is not exactly right. Napster allowed you to keep your money, but it also told you there was something shameful in keeping your musical tastes to yourself. In its default setting, the service made each user’s collection available for everyone’s perusal. Fanning spent his teenage years immersed in the open-source culture of internet message boards, where circulating your own hacks and helping to improve the work of others was just good citizenship, and this collaborative ethos migrated smoothly into the realm of digital music…On sites using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, someone who makes a torrent available to others is called a “seeder.” Someone who only downloads material made available by others, on the other hand, is a “leech.””

- n 1: 5.4

"This appears to be yet another example of the kind of takedown abuse we’ve seen under existing law —..."

kweerious — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:53:59 -0500

““This appears to be yet another example of the kind of takedown abuse we’ve seen under existing law — and another reason why Congress should soundly reject the broad new powers contemplated in the Internet Blacklist Bills, aka SOPA/PIPA.”

- Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label” | TorrentFreak

I create a song with my lyrics and music featuring your artists who like what I’m doing and fully agree to participate. You send content takedown notices in an abuse of power to rain on my parade as it goes viral.

So blatantly evil, UMG.

Think of the memes people. What will become of Tumblr?!

kweerious — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:05 -0500

Think of the memes people. What will become of Tumblr?!

"Until 2011, I was largely detached from these trends. An OCD approach to managing my iTunes song..."

kweerious — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:01:25 -0500

“Until 2011, I was largely detached from these trends. An OCD approach to managing my iTunes song counts, years of easy access to albums in my college radio station’s music library, and an idealistic allegiance to the idea thats albums should be experienced as complete works of art all meant that I rarely bought single songs during the 99 cent-per-song era. Yet I acquired a sense of authorship over the music collection I had crafted and maintained.”

- The Year My Music Library Moved to the Cloud « The Bygone Bureau
Socially streamed music sharing is awesome.

thisistheverge: iOS: A visual history | The Verge

kweerious — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:14:00 -0500

thisistheverge:

iOS: A visual history | The Verge

"A system call is a request by a running task to the kernel to provide some sort of service on its..."

kweerious — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:41:46 -0500

“A system call is a request by a running task to the kernel to provide some sort of service on its behalf. In general, the kernel services invoked by system calls comprise an abstraction layer between hardware and user-space programs, allowing a programmer to implement an operating environment without having to tailor his program(s) too specifically to one single brand or precise specific combination of system hardware components. System calls also serve this generalization function across programming languages; e.g., the read system call will read data from a file descriptor. To the programmer, this looks like another C function, but in actuality, the code for read is contained within the kernel.”

- Linux System Calls | Linux Journal

"Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers? Anyone describing themselves as either a..."

kweerious — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:10:02 -0500

“Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers? Anyone describing themselves as either a Java programmer or .NET programmer has already lost, because a) they’re a programmer (you’re not, see above) and b) they’re making themselves non-hireable for most programming jobs. In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.”

- Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software

Plenty of interesting (mostly good) advice).

"I don’t miss the weight. I don’t miss the keyboard getting warm when I’m compiling. I don’t miss its..."

kweerious — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:01:00 -0400

“I don’t miss the weight. I don’t miss the keyboard getting warm when I’m compiling. I don’t miss its fragility, both physically and virtually. I don’t miss running out of power. To my surprise, I find I am happy. Coding in the cloud isn’t for everybody, but for my workflow it’s a perfect fit and I love it.”

- yieldthought

Working only with an iPad in the cloud. Someday…

"If all readership is on the website and an iPad app, how much of the layout staff is necessary? Web..."

kweerious — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:17:53 -0400

“

If all readership is on the website and an iPad app, how much of the layout staff is necessary? Web publications don’t need custom layouts for each post. On the iPad, I find that the magazine-like layouts get in the way and make the reading experience more difficult. iPad magazine content shouldn’t look like scanned printed-magazine pages.

Are incredibly complex and expensive-to-develop iPad apps necessary, or would simpler ones suffice? Are enough customers really demanding the expensive features — especially those with big per-issue costs, like all of the multimedia “extras” — to make them worth their costs, or would most of the readership still pay the same amount for just the text and a few optional photos in a nice, reusable template?

”

- Some responses to the magazine counterarguments

I think it’s sort of funny that Marco has basically suggested magazines move to something more like Instapaper. The content is key, but design can help tell the story.

Human brain may have reached its peak of intelligence: Researchers

kweerious — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:29:36 -0400

dkalab:

in order to become any more intelligent the human brain would need vast amounts of extra energy and oxygen – and we simply cannot provide it.Cambridge University researchers have analysed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up. http://bit.ly/oWS478 -> I thought only CPU has power wall, it turns out our brain suffering from the same problem

I am so smart. S-M-R-T!

First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors: ddrescue --no-split...

kweerious — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:49:00 -0400

First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors:

ddrescue --no-split /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

Now let it retry previous errors 3 times, using uncached reads:

ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

If that fails you can try again but retrimmed, so it tries to reread full sectors:

ddrescue --direct --retrim --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

— DataRecovery Wiki

"Reptiles evolved a three-bone multihinged lower jaw to permit swallowing large prey, but two of..."

kweerious — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:08:54 -0400

“

Reptiles evolved a three-bone multihinged lower jaw to permit swallowing large prey, but two of these three bones became an expatiation for improved hearing. The convenient location of these bones made possible the evolution of two little sound-amplifying bones inside your middle ear. No engineer would have dreamed of such an inelegant solution, which goes to illustrate the opportunistic nature of evolution.

(As Francis Crick once said, “God is a hacker, not an engineer.”)

”

- The Tell-Tale Brain, VS Ramachandran via pith.

This explains duct tape (although I do prefer gaff tape).

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Male_Programmer_Privilege_Checklist

kweerious — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:55:31 -0400

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Male_Programmer_Privilege_Checklist:

via @lia

Play videos from your AirVideo server on your Mac.

kweerious — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:20:34 -0400

Play videos from your AirVideo server on your Mac.