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Python on Wheels
A quick overview into wheel based Python deployments.
Did this Tor developer become a victim of NSA's laptop interception program?
UPDATE (1/27/14) : Shepard says she reached out to the seller and was told they entered the wrong tracking number. She hasn't received the package yet. She also says the new tracking details show that it has now been sent to Seattle, but to the wrong zip code, and "didn't ship until after [she] got the original…
Parallelism in one line
A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks
A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go
After reading countless articles about the wonders of Go, I wanted to learn more. But, learning a new language— I mean really learning it, not just getting familiar with the general capabilities and syntax—is hard. I'm sure there are tons of books that would purport to teach me all about it, but there is no substitute…
We want your old T-shirts
The Internet Archive is headquartered in a building that used to be a Christian Science church. The great room includes a gorgeous stained glass dome, a pipe organ, and graceful wooden pews. We seat 400+ people in this space to show movies and to host conferences on a regular basis. The room is beautiful, but those
Making GIFs From Video Files With Python
Sometimes producing a good animated GIF requires a few advanced tweaks, for which scripting can help. So I added a GIF export feature to MoviePy, a …
This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
"You want Tikhon and Arianna on your team. They are A++ hustlers that will walk through walls and put in hundreds hours of work on your toughest problem. There are 43 investors in Simple Contacts, Tikhon and Arianna are my first calls."
Where do you find the time for side projects?
You work 40 hours per week. You have family commitments. How can you work on your side-hustle, when you have a limited amount of energy and time?
Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013
A monkey. That’s the default name a part in the JavaScript Engine of Mozilla Firefox gets. Even the full engine has its own monkey name, ...
Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
NB: These techniques are universal, but for syntax we chose Postgres. Thanks to the inimitable pgAdminIII for the Explain graphics. So useful, yet so slow
How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)
It took 6 months for me to get from 300 to 100 things. It took just 5 minutes for me to get from 100 to 0 things. I just spent the last 9 months traveling and …
Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.”
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to… Continue Reading →
The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown 2. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: Down for the Count 3. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: The Great Gali...
Why I'm Betting On Julia
The problem with most programming languages is they’re designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don’t much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I’m sure these things are great, but when I’m messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work…
HTTP Security headers you should be using
Van Pathé tot KLM en de Rijksoverheid: ontdek hoe Dawn Technology met maatwerk software alledaagse ervaringen slimmer, sneller en beter maakt.