August 2011
53 posts
My answer to "Web Development: I know core PHP... →
“These Republican leaders, who think nothing of widening tax loopholes for...”
– The New Resentment of the Poor - NYTimes.com
Why do facts not matter to some people? - Quora →
“(1 ton / (How much does a penny weigh)) .01 dollars”
– (1 ton / (How much does a penny weigh)) .01 dollars - Wolfram|Alpha
Tupolev 154 interior - Google Search →
Searching for what the interior of a Tupolev 154 looks like (because the New York Times describes it as scary) brings up more images of crashed jet wreckage than pictures I was actually looking for.
“Russia’s aviation industry has long been plagued by safety problems, breakdowns...”
– Also, a list of where not to fly local airlines. Superjet, Made by Sukhoi of Russia, Faces Industry Skepticism - NYTimes.com
“res ad triarios venit”
– Triarii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Order No. 227 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Sublime Text - Download →
I like how Sublime Text 2 gives you a view of what the entire file looks like. The design and colors are very nice too. It’s no vim though.
WhereIsKhaledEnglish's Channel - YouTube →
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Scroll To Top Button →
Very nice Chrome extension with lots of options. It does one thing, and it does it well.
“For the next half-hour Jobs berated the group. “You’ve tarnished...”
– How Apple works: Inside the world’s biggest startup - Fortune Tech
My first little Go program. I love Go! →
“This is the image taken from Edwin Hubble at Mt. Wilson’s 100”...”
– Jon Voisey’s answer to What are some of the most important, iconic, and/or beautiful scientific images? - Quora
“The LA Times obituary writer of Bob Hope’s obituary died before Bob Hope”
– At what point do newspapers pre-write an obituary for a famous person? - Quora
What are useful Command-line Commands on Mac OS X?... →
“..the iPhone alone generates about 50 percent more revenue for Apple than all of...”
– Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo
Schön scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Go ships with plugins and syntax files for vim. In fact it does that for many editors:
go/misc$ ls
IntelliJIDEA bash cgo dashboard fraise goplay notepadplus vim zsh
arm bbedit chrome emacs godoc kate swig xcode
How awesome is that? Very. There’s also some kind of chrome extension in...
Advanced Topics in Programming Languages:... →
Another interesting about Go: return variables
From Day 1 with Go:
The result “parameters” are actual variables you
can use if you name them.
func MySqrt(f float64) (v float64, ok bool) {
if f >= 0 { v,ok = math.Sqrt(f), true }
else { v,ok = 0,false }
return v,ok
}
The result variables are initialized to “zero” (0,
0.0, false etc. according to type; more in a sec).
func MySqrt(f float64) (v...
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Things I love about Google Go
I am just about done reading the Google Go spec and I love this language. It’s so great. Here are some things I love:
Expression lists:
return_value, ok = myFunction();
Switches don’t need break statements, but they do have fallthrough statements and you don’t have to put the default statement at the bottom. It can go anywhere. There are also type switches that let you...
Some people in the know just told me that it will be possible to write “Native Client” apps for Chrome in Go soon. This will be amazing.
“The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.”
– Keep Your Identity Small
I am now an Alcor member
“just a few weeks ago, President Clinton said that the national debt could be...”
– Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
John O'Callaghan – Find Yourself (Cosmic Gate... →
WatchHerakut - OneThirty3 (by onethirty3)
Jonas M Luster's answer to Is high fructose corn... →
Ok, so about that ape movie that's out.
I saw the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie just because I was bored. I can’t believe they made that movie. The protagonist is a CGI monkey. There’s very little dialog in the entire movie and some of the dialog is apes using hand signals to talk to each other. They even make some funny jokes. There were really long scenes with no dialog. It felt like the movie was made in another...
“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of...”
– S&P Downgrades U.S. Debt Rating — Press Release - MarketBeat - WSJ
