June 2011
16 posts
DotShare.it →
onethingwell:
A new site for sharing configuration files.
Jay!
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instead of foo and bar, I started using nyan for...
$nyaaaan = $nyan + $nyaan;
NYAAAAAAN!
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Only in Germany: An API with opening hours →
german:
Über diese Schnittstelle können Sie sich täglich, in der Zeit zwischen 05:00 Uhr und 23:00 Uhr, die Gültigkeit einer ausländischen Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer (USt-IdNr.) bestätigen lassen.
english (roughly translated):
By this API, you can check daily, in a timeframe between 5am and 11pm, the validity of your Tax ID.
*facepalm*
… or just use this SOAP-API provided by the EU:...
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t...”
– Good advice from Tumblr co-founder David Karp, in a frank and wide-ranging interview with Inc.’s Liz Welch. (via matthewb)
Watchfuckyeahcircuits:
For those of you that use KiCad, I’ve just started an initial testing phase of my long time pet project CircuitBee.
It lets you embed circuits into your website or blogs (or tumbles!) just as you would a Google Map or YouTube video. Simply upload your circuit, it converts it and then lets you embed it in your blog.
It will be going open to all soon, but right now its invite...
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HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills - GitHub →
The All-In-One Entirely-Not-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to HTML5 Fallbacks
PHP Hacking →
dhotson:
“Today I publish my own PHP fork based on the PHP 5.3.6 code base with a few changes that make the everydays developer life more bearable.”
More discussion on HN.
+1 for these changes
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“Here is something you’ve may have heard but never quite believed before:...”
– Rethrick Construction
“Fact 21.
For every 25 percent increase in problem complexity, there is a 100...”
– Robert L. Glass
Report: GitHub more popular than SourceForge and...
GitHub has announced that it is now the most popular open source software forge, surpassing Google Code, SourceForge and Microsoft’s CodePlex
http://attrition.org/misc/ee/protolol.txt →
@mckeay The sad thing about IPv6 jokes is that almost no one understands them and no one is using them yet.
@reconbot: WHO HAS ANY ARP JOKES? #protolol
@lensassaman: "The problem with DRM jokes is that you can't share them with your friends." #protolol
@OhMeadhbh: the SYN flood attack #protolol: "knock knock. who's there? knock knock. who's there? knock knock. who's there? ..."
@dildog What's up...
http://www.kulturservern.se/wronsov/selfpassage/res... →
In the nineteenth century, the motor replaced the clockwork as the universal model of knowledge. In a similar vein, new media technologies are currently replacing the motor as the dominant ‘conceptual technology’ of contemporary social thought. This development, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås argue, has yielded new ways of construing politics, activism and innovation.
What Makes A Great Programmer? →
dhotson:
Semi-link-bait article, but actually some not bad points.
