The great enterprise of telecommunications is no better than our right to participate in it as individuals.
Amen.
I went over to the Commissar, said “Commissar, you got a lotta damn gall to ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I’m just sittin’ here, sittin’ on the group H bench ‘cause you want to know if I’m *moral* enough to join a Company to grep mail, burn electronic books, and censor feeds after bein’ an NNTP hacker.” He looked at me, said “Kid, we don’t like your kind, and we’re gonna send your .newsrc down to California…”
Utterly brilliant.
(Via reddit)
Ryan explains the details of a popular (and, in my opinion, probably the most robust) pattern for doing tumblelog-style streams of content with Django.
Speaking of performance…
Even comes with a Firebug extension. Too bad I can’t install it due to brain-dead Mozilla policies.
(Via Ajaxian)
I really, truly thought this was a sick joke. And then I saw tutorials linking to it as an easy way to generate keys.
In all seriousness: how did the people who think this is a good idea manage to survive into adulthood?
Rob shares some useful tips on keeping hard-coded filesystem paths out of your settings, something I do all the time. A useful companion to this is the documentation for Python’s “os.path” module.
This is potentially the coolest use of Twitter EVAR.
Postmodernism, like modernism and romanticism before it, fetishised [ie placed supreme importance on] the author, even when the author chose to indict or pretended to abolish him or herself. But the culture we have now fetishises the recipient of the text to the degree that they become a partial or whole author of it.
Interesting to see this considering what I’m reading right now.
What got me involved was word that the Deletionist undead were shambling in the direction of _why’s entry. Oh, and by the way, apparently it’s somehow uncool that I entered the debate because I heard about it somewhere.
Remember, Tim: an AfD is for “Wikipedians”, not for people who actually know anything about the subject at hand.
I have to ask: Why would anyone want this? Let alone pay any amount of money whatsoever for it? I’ve seen several similar efforts, and they all seem to fundamentally miss the point of online media.
Much as I applaud prominent online-news people saying this, I have to ask in reply: why is it taking you so long to figure this out?
That’s a pretty interesting use of Twitter that I hadn’t thought of.
These days I don’t even bother with any word other than “feed”; people who have the requisite knowledge will understand, and people who don’t can get a nice explanation.
Quoth The Zen of Python:
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
Static typing works best when there is lots of complexity, but like breath mints for a drunk, we are just making it easier to get away with what we know to be a mistake anyway.
Have I mentioned I’m a huge Luke Wroblewski fanboy?
Machines that want to interpret HTML need to act like humans, and not the other way around.
Amen.
Eric has turned out an awfully useful-looking little app, and it follows a design aesthetic that I very much like :)
We have a paper that recently went from weekly print editions to online-only. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Thinking about doing something very similar here in the near future.
The new KDE launcher is a gynecologist interface: There you are, sitting in front of a 20” screen, but the programmer has dictated that you have to do everything by poking around in a small box.
This phrase is an instant classic.
(Via reddit)
It might make a lot of sense to leverage social networking applications for business purposes, but it definitely doesn’t make a lot of sense to do so in a way that locks you into any one particular social network.
Old, but bears repeating in this modern age.
Many businesses act as if they have a stake in their suppliers and other vendors. Instead of scaling the part of their business that can move quickly and well, they defend the part they don’t even own.
Listen to this man. Please.
As filters are set at higher levels they block access to a substantial amount of health information, with only a minimal increase in blocked pornographic content.
Which comes as a surprise to absolutely no one who actually knows how these things work.
(Via danah boyd)