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(via EST) This comic spoke to me.

2012 May 27, 2:20


(via EST)

This comic spoke to me.

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Get Set: A Jet To Replace Needles For Injections : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

2012 May 27, 7:18

Star Trek’s hypospray apparently already existed and has been patented since 1960.

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PowerShell Equivalents for JavaScript Array Functions

2012 May 15, 3:30

Built-in

map
input | %{ expression($_) }
forEach
input | %{ [void]expression($_) }
filter
input | ?{ expression($_) }
indexOf
input.indexOf(value)

Close to built-in

some
if (input | ?{ expression($_) }) { ... }
every
if (-not input | ?{ !expression($_) }) { ... }
lastIndexOf
[array]::lastIndexOf(input, value)

Write it yourself

reduce
function reduce($fn, $a, $init) { $s = $init; $a | %{ $s = &$fn $s $_; }; $s; }
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We never recovered the bicycle, of course. The lock itself...

2012 May 11, 6:28


We never recovered the bicycle, of course. The lock itself wasn’t attacked at all, as you can see.

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Favorite Windows 8 Feature: Intra-Line Tab Completion

2012 May 9, 3:30

Fixed in Windows 8 is intra-line tab completion - you can try it out on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview now. If you open a command prompt, type a command, then move your cursor back into a token in the middle of the command and tab complete, the tab completion works on that whitespace delimited token and doesn't erase all text following the cursor. Like it does in pre Windows 8. And annoys the hell out of me. Yay!

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Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012 May 8, 5:36

Wikipedia’s alternate names for the slash include stroke, solidus, and separatrix.

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Scorching legal response from Dajaz1.com to the unsealed US gov't docs on the illegal, sleazy seizure of its domain name

2012 May 7, 1:25

Its all quite shocking.

Fourth , when I explained that the blog publisher had received music from the industry itself, a government attorney replied that authorization was an “affirmative defense” that need not be taken into account by the government in carrying out the seizure. That was stunning.

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veryseriousbusiness: oldie but goodie, go to google translate...

2012 May 7, 1:02


veryseriousbusiness:

oldie but goodie, go to google translate and paste this in, turn it to GERMAN and hit the listen button.

pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk

now turn it to JAPANESE, hit listen…LOL

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(via Feature: Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars...

2012 May 7, 8:18


(via Feature: Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads)

The coolest part of this article is that Nevada now has an autonomous vehicle license plate that’s red background and infinity on the left.

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Alex Claps (by Sarah Moffatt) Sarah chose the music =)

2012 May 7, 5:45


Alex Claps (by Sarah Moffatt)

Sarah chose the music =)

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Play Fez

2012 May 7, 3:30

I'm done playing Fez. The style is atmospheric retro nastalgia and on the surface the gameplay is standard 2D platformer with one interesting Flatland style game mechanic but dig deeper to find Myst style puzzles. Despite the following I thoroughly enjoyed the game and would recommend it to anyone intrigued by the previous. Five eighths through the game I ran into one of the game's infamous Fez save game breaking issues, but I enjoyed the game enough that I started over before any patches were released and had no further issues.

While playing the game I created some tools to help keep track of my Fez notes (spoilers) including a Pixelated Image Creator that makes it easy to generate data URIs for large, black and white pixelated images, and (spoilers) a Fez Transliteration Tool to help me translate the in-game writing system.

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The frequent fliers who flew too much - latimes.com

2012 May 6, 10:24

“Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. “

“He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.”

“She pulled years of flight records for Rothstein and Vroom and calculated that each was costing American more than $1 million a year.”

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C++ Algorithms: next_permutation()

2012 May 4, 1:56

Breakdown of the STL’s implementation of next_permutation.  Ever wondered how that works?

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Do Cute Kids Like Radiohead? - “Paranoid Android” -...

2012 Apr 27, 7:05


Do Cute Kids Like Radiohead? - “Paranoid Android” - You Review #09 (by noisey)

“I don’t think he’s got any friends”. Harsh.

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Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

2012 Apr 26, 9:53

As Hammond explained what he did, the critic became agitated. Times are tough enough in journalism, he said, and now you’re going to replace writers with robots? “I just looked at him,” Hammond recalls, “and asked him: Have you ever seen a reporter at a Little League game? That’s the most important thing about us. Nobody has lost a single job because of us.” At least not yet.

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"Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes" - Tony Hansen

2012 Apr 26, 3:15

This document defines several Structured Syntax Suffixes for use with media type registrations. In particular, it defines and registers the “+json”, “+ber”, “+der”, “+fastinfoset”, “+wbxml” and “+zip” Structured Syntax Suffixes, and updates the “+xml” Structured Syntax Suffix registration.

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(via Descriptive Camera) A digital camera sends photos to...

2012 Apr 25, 4:23


(via Descriptive Camera)

A digital camera sends photos to Mechanical Turk service to generate a textual description and print the result on a thermal printer.  Thus a camera that prints out a textual description of what you photographed.

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DVD Exclusive - Paul F. Tompkins - Full Encore Performance (by...

2012 Apr 25, 3:36


DVD Exclusive - Paul F. Tompkins - Full Encore Performance (by comedycentral)

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First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

2012 Apr 23, 11:22


First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

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(via An Embroidered George McFly: I’m Your Density by Sabrina...

2012 Apr 20, 9:39


(via An Embroidered George McFly: I’m Your Density by Sabrina Parolin)

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