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DeWitt Clinton posted a link

11011110: The Nauru graph in 3d

9 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

Adewale Oshineye liked this

"You remember that genus-four surface embedding of the Nauru graph (the unique 3-regular 24-vertex symmetric graph) that I couldn't figure out how to model in SketchUp? This weekend I tried modeling it again. This time I wrote a Python program to output a POVray program to generate the model. Here it is:" - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“Name a social software that hasn't been 'gamed'? Wikipedia? Blogs? Digg?”

Friday at 8:12 pm - Link

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XMPP. - DeWitt Clinton

Chatterous makes good use of XMPP. - Jason Wehmhoener

FF? - ⓞnor

FriendFeed Feedback: Michael Carter posted a link

It would be great if FF was part of Feedburner's Feedflare. Then we could put "Share on FriendFeed" to the bottom of our blog entries.

Friday at 6:33 pm - Link

Ryan Gallagher, Cyvros/fyc, Roger Kondrat and DeWitt Clinton liked this

wouldn't be very difficult to make one ourselves. - Rahul Das

You can add it. Here's the open FeedFlare API: http://code.google.com/apis/fe... - DeWitt Clinton

seems like one already exists. http://tinyurl.com/6q8uyr from someone called Voyagerfan5761. Google does work! - Rahul Das

Very cool. I just implemented this and it works great. Thank you Rahul. And thank you Voyagerfan5761. - Michael Carter

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

microBlog » Thank you, Adobe Reader 9!

Friday at 4:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

luis liked this

Toyota famously invented the andon system -- a cord that any person on the floor can pull to stop the assembly line when something is going wrong. Where was the andon system at Adobe when they were preparing to release Adobe Reader 9? I have to believe that someone over there knew how bad it was going to turn out. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Why do companies do this to us? I wonder if it has anything to do with Windows and MS not being a role model for other vendors. 'Cause on a Mac you rarely see this crap. It all starts with useless icons in the Start Menu and on the desktop and continues from there. (edit: I stand corrected, Adobe Reader 9 for Mac seems to be no better. And it need 405 MB of HD space. Thank God Mac OS has a built-in PDF reader). - Ole Begemann

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Running C and Python Code on The Web at Toolness

Friday at 2:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

While this would certainly win my long bet that in the next few years we'll see another language surpass JavaScript in the browser, I definitely wouldn't have put my money on that language being C, compiled to bytecode, executed in a custom (ll)VM written in ActionScript, running on Tamarin inside the browser. Via Simon. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Simon Willison posted an entry on Simon Willison's Weblog

A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE

Friday at 12:29 am - Link

Michael C. Harris liked this

"Done right, the “detect the bug, not the browser” rule of thumb will make maintaining your site much easier whenever a new browser or browser version is released." -Hallvord R. M. Steen. True, but it is more nuanced than that, isn't it? The cost of detecting the bug at run-time is often much, much higher than simple browser sniffing. Love to hear other people's thoughts on this. - DeWitt Clinton

My long-time rule of thumb is "sniff features, not browsers". - abacab

Nice. Browser duck-typing. About DeWitt's comment, I'd like to see some data for that. For small things, I'd agree with you. For larger apps, there's likely a big setup cost anyhow, so a bit of bug-dependent metaprogramming to start isn't going to hurt too much. - Edd Dumbill via twhirl

And of course, being an Opera thing, this affected what, three or four people worldwide? ;) - abacab

Chris White posted a message

“If you could only watch 5 movies you've seen over again, which ones would they be?”

Thursday at 10:44 pm - Link

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Mine are: Vertigo, GoodFellas, Pulp Fiction, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bladerunner - Chris White

Wall Street, Fletch, Caddyshack, Back to School, WarGames - peter

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Real Genius, Princess Bride, Star Wars, and I have no idea for the last two. - Kevin Fox

Tootsie, Forrest Gump, La Vie En Rose, As Good As It Gets, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Weird Science, Tarnation, Out of Africa, Rainman, Cinema Paradiso, - Pokai

Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, Forrest Gump, The Book of Love, A League of Their Own - Erica Baker

Raging bull, Cinema Paradiso, Bullit, Empire of the sun, The Wall - George The Writer

North by Northwest, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, The Unbearable Lightness, Raiders. I was surprised that I chose these. Only 2 of my 7 favorite directors make an appearance, and only 2 actors that I would count among my real favorites. But, you know, if you can only pick 5, you really start cutting muscle. - j1m

Casablanca,Lovestory,Ratattouile,Fight Club, Breakfast At Tiffany's - Giancarlo Angulo

Until the End of the World, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Days of Heaven. - DeWitt Clinton

Harold and Maude, Raising Arizona, The Blues Brothers, Empire Strikes Back, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. [The next five would be The Breakfast Club, Clerks, Swingers, Pulp Fiction, and Ghostbusters. Princess Bride, Office Space and Shaun of the Dead were under consideration as well.] - Keith Pelczarski

It's a Wonderful Life, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Singin' in the Rain, Stage Door - Spidra Webster

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Adobe 9 [dive into mark]

Thursday at 11:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Russ, Hillary Hartley, Vlado Handziski, Bryce and 3 other people liked this

"You can’t make this stuff up." Once again, Mark nails it. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

does the fractal on his website mean anything or is it just a background image. - Atul Arora

Knowing Mark it was probably an experiment in something or other web standards-wise. See his notes about the redesign here: http://diveintomark.org/archiv.... - DeWitt Clinton

"“Hey, are you on Adobe 9?” “No, I’m on Microsoft 14.” “Pity. I was hoping we could have sex.” ROFL! - Erica Baker

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

googletest - Google Code

Thursday at 8:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Adewale Oshineye, siavash, nadim, abacab and 3 other people liked this

"Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Google's C++ test framework, open source under a BSD license as of today. - DeWitt Clinton

good link Thanks - Fred Grott

Hate on Google all you want, but you have to admit we release a ton of open source code. : ) - DeWitt Clinton

Atul Arora posted a link

The Long Tail: How long will the WSJ keep its pay model?

Thursday at 4:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Hutch Carpenter and Nikpay liked this

"Here are the traffic figures for WSJ.com versus the New York Times, which went from the pay to free model in September of last year:" - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet

Looks like the WSJ had about 150% year over year growth, which beats even the NYT growth. Given that the Times is written for a much broader audience than the WSJ, it's hard to come to the conclusion the author tries to lead us to. - DeWitt Clinton

And what a weird statement "(Don't be misled by percentage figures; they always make growth from a smaller base look bigger)." What? - DeWitt Clinton

I've heard from a source that the revenue cannot be replaced. It is so significant that they will not stray until our eyeballs are worth more. - David Weiner

The WSJ has a daily circulation of 2m, and 1m paying online subscribers. Since the online subscription # is going up, I don't see why they would change... - DeWitt Clinton

Kevin Fox posted a message

“So I hate the idea of telco immunity, but if I understand it correctly, the new FISA bill indemnifies the telcos only if they can produce a letter from the president that compelled them to comply. If such a letter is produced, wouldn't it be evidence of the president's own crime? Is it worth it?”

Thursday at 10:53 am - Link

I'm actually willing to give the telcos some immunity as long as the officials, up to and including White House officials, who authorized the illegal taps are punished. I also understand that the bill passed by the house only applies to warrentless taps after 9/11/2001. Many of these taps were started before that date. So would the telcos still be liable for those instances? - John Frost

I think you're mistaken. Read this: http://www.salon.com/opinion/g... . "So all the Attorney General has to do is recite those magic words -- the President requested this eavesdropping and did it in order to save us from the Terrorists -- and the minute he utters those words, the courts are required to dismiss the lawsuits against the telecoms, no matter how illegal their behavior was." - nadim

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No way should anyone involved be given immunity of any kind, unless it's to some low level guy to rat out the other people - Bjorn Tipling

Besides, the president is only a criminal insofar as someone is willing to prosecute... - DeWitt Clinton

As bad as immunity is, this version is an improvement: it's civil immunity only (not criminal), and it covers only telco actors, not government officials. As one who remains convinced that the original immunity provision was aimed not at telcos but at covering government officials, I'll swallow this provision if it comes down to it. But in my view, pardon is still preferable to immunity. - John Craft

If a cop is running down the street and says "can I cut through your yard" and you say yes, only to learn later that the cop was breaking the law, what sort of punishment should you be given? - Andrew Leyden

@andrew: not sure if I understand your analogy here. Telco's are legally prohibited from allowing eavesdropping in certain situations, there is a strict process in place that says who can/can't eavesdrop and under what circumstances they can. Someone using your yard has no such restrictions. - nadim

@ John Frost re: pre-9/11 taps, I'm not convinced. That claim comes from Joe Nacchio (as do the anonymous claims in many articles), and given his situation, should be taken with a block of salt without solid corroborating evidence. - John Craft

Dare Obasanjo posted a message on Twitter

“I'm amused by the hypocrisy of GOOG employees criticizing MSFT for unilaterally proposing Web standards at http://tinyurl.com/64gbsy”

Thursday at 8:11 am - Link

Manish Patil, Atul Arora, PK2004 and Adewale Oshineye liked this

Huh? We've been making a very conscious cross-company effort *avoid* unilaterally proposing standards for the past few years. See our approach to HTML5, to OpenSocial, to Gears, to Atom Pub, Sitemaps, OAuth, OpenID, etc., where we're either taking our proposals to public forums, industry foundations, or formal standards bodies. In fact, we work with closely with Microsoft on a number of these initiatives. Are there some specific examples you can cite? I consider a big part of what I get paid to do to look into places we could do better at this, so I'm keen to hear more about your concerns. - DeWitt Clinton

@Dewitt: Don't forget KML in your list, now OGC Standard. - nadim

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Google has been pulling unilateral moves with far reaching impact for years from rel=nofollow to OpenSocial. What Google has become savvy at is finding some partners/stooges to stand behind them shortly after their unilateral announcements and call it a "standard". I'm still waiting for the details on which standards body ratified OAuth and OpenSocial. - Dare Obasanjo

@Dare OAuth was actually first started by a group of individuals from Twitter and Magnolia and then Chris Messina and myself (I was at VeriSign at that point but then moved to Six Apart) got involved. From there it grew certainly with the support of Google, but not the other way around. - David Recordon

Exactly what David said re: OAuth -- OAuth is 100% a community-run initiative that we're rapidly transitioning to use over our own legacy proprietary auth formats. And OpenSocial is run entirely in the open by a very wide-ranging group of companies (Yahoo, MySpace, Hi5, Ning, Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc., etc), and the intellectual property has been entirely transfered to the OpenSocial Foundation, out of Google's control. - DeWitt Clinton

And rel="nofollow" is now being "standardized" outside of Google by the microformats community. See http://microformats.org/wiki/r.... - DeWitt Clinton

I'm not saying Google doesn't have more work to do. Of course it does, but please, let's be accurate. I'd like to hear examples of places I can focus my attention. - DeWitt Clinton

And not cool calling those companies "stooges", Dare. - DeWitt Clinton

Though for the record, I actively push back, even internally, against calling anything a "standard" until it has gone through a formal standards body, such as IETF, OASIS, ISO, etc. "De facto standard" is okay, but I prefer the term "specification" for things that haven't been formally ratified. - DeWitt Clinton

peter posted a link

Finally a useful website

Wednesday at 9:53 pm - Link

Alex Gawley, David Th, Steve Lacey, Kris and 6 other people liked this

I opened that in a background tab to read later and then spent a few minutes wondering... - Robin Barooah

they should monetize with adsense for white noise - peter

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I'd love it if they incorporated binaural beats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...) and a slider to adjust the frequency difference. - DeWitt Clinton

fwiw i really liked their volume control - peter

+1. Great design in general. - DeWitt Clinton

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j1m posted a link

Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity - NYTimes.com

Wednesday at 7:35 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

nadim and possible248 liked this

"In recent days, more than 7,000 Obama supporters have organized on a social networking site on Mr. Obama’s own campaign Web site. They are calling on Mr. Obama to reverse his decision" Nice. Though it actually has 9800 members, not 7000 like when he wrote this article a few hours ago: http://my.barackobama.com/page... - j1m via Bookmarklet

“I will continue to support him,” Mr. Moulitsas said in an interview. “But I was going to write him a check, and I decided I would rather put that money with Democrats who will uphold the Constitution.” - j1m

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I'm still voting for Obama, but I've become less and less excited about him. Too much business as usual, despite the rhetoric (e.g., hiding Muslim women from the view of the cameras, etc.) - Adam Lasnik

For me it all boils down to the FISA thing. The rest of his supported "move to the center" seem like either non-events or non-surprises. But FISA, WTF. - ⓞnor

+1 on Adam's comment. - Bindu Reddy

so lame. I'm pissed. Need to send my check to the ACLU soon. - Michael

And with 13660 members it is now officially the largest group on his web site. Assuming no action on his part, I expect it to stay there for quite a long time. - j1m

Speaking as a california voter now, and a new york voter in the previous presidential cycles, our electoral college votes are a foregone conclusion, so it is appropriate to wage a protest vote over something like FISA and still not hurt the chances for change in the whitehouse. People in OH or FL aren't so lucky. - DeWitt Clinton

And I'm with @stopman, a donation to the ACLU instead of the dem PAC or the Obama campaign is a good way to send a signal. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a message

“The dirty little secret that few are acknowledging is that the proliferation of microblogging services is leading to the inevitable rise of meta-aggregation services that can crawl and index the public web and maintain the sense of identity.”

Wednesday at 8:31 pm - Link

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What's the "sense of identity"? - ⓞnor

Meaning you are you, and I'm me, regardless of where we have accounts. - DeWitt Clinton

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The social graph api is a great step forward in that direction. - DeWitt Clinton

Hmm, I agree you're you, but I'm not sure ⓞnor is ⓞnor - j1m

You would if there were mutually asserted identities. - DeWitt Clinton

To clarify, ⓞnor could make bi-directional assertions among identities at various sites, and eventually you would learn to trust a whole cluster of ⓞnor's. - DeWitt Clinton

Yeah, turns out I'm not me. - ⓞnor

You mean like .... Friendfeed - YEP! need tools to manage all these disparate SM apps... craziness... like having split personalities / fragmented IDs - Susan Beebe

Well... Not like FF, actually. Not in its current form, anyway. - DeWitt Clinton

Maybe not ⓞnor enough to write a check to, but ⓞnor enough for me. - DeWitt Clinton

claimid.com is one site that does this (bi-directional assertions of identity) - Ben Darnell

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa posted a message on Twitter

“playing Chrono Trigger”

Wednesday at 9:33 pm - Link

DeWitt Clinton liked this

On which emulator? Or do you have a real SNES somewhere? - DeWitt Clinton

Jason Chen posted a message on Twitter

“if i had a nickel for every time someone mistakenly calls it "google android"...”

Wednesday at 7:32 pm - Link

You'd have $134,500, according to Google. So says 'Results 1 - 10 of about 2,690,000 for "google android"'. - DeWitt Clinton

What do you want them to call it? - Chris White

@Chris, just "Android". The credit is flattering, I'm sure, but it is an multi-company industry initiative. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a message on Jaiku

“Need to write a greasemonkey script that hides every link that starts with a digit followed by a noun or adj+noun. E.g., '20 ways to...'.”

Wednesday at 5:56 pm - Link

Erica Baker liked this

I feel like that particular form of clickbait is fading. I wonder why it's so effective? - ⓞnor

Check out popurls.com at any given time. 20%-30% of the top links are to link-bait lists like that. Drives me nuts. - DeWitt Clinton

people like lists and surveys. - Michael J Cohen

10 Reasons Why Lists Make Great Linkbait......... :P - Adam Lasnik

So not funny, Adam. : ) But probably a top digg of the day. - DeWitt Clinton

Veronica posted a link

OK, I joined the new one. Man, I'm getting kind of tired of joining things.

Wednesday at 7:52 pm - Link

Mike McCallister, Ken Pruett, Donato, Aaron Draczynski and 12 other people liked this

It's a lot easier if you have an OpenID... I had my identi.ca account running in less than a minute because of it. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt, I've got one, luckily. - Veronica

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Seems like Plurk to me — something I've joined but will most probably never use. - Vincent X

So the silly thing is that I needed to tell identi.ca to have my account follow yours, when it is obvious from the one-million other identical services we're both on that this has happened before... - DeWitt Clinton

I think I caught join-itis from Leo and Amber LOL - Harry Myhre

I'll second that. but I think the new one problem is that half the fun of these things is collecting friends, and once it's clear that people have gamed the system, and all of the delayed social awkwardnesses of the big internet become apparent... everyone wants to move on. don't blame them. maybe a more fragmented space will make twitter work better ;) - tycho garen

I registered my moniker but don't have the wherewithall to do more than that right now - Adrienne Van Houten

Tycho, how has anyone "gamed" the system? - Veronica

Bright shiny new app FATIGUE anyone???? - Susan Beebe

One has to draw the line somewhere with all of these new services to join. Mine is Friendfeed. There has to be something really compelling about any new service for me to join now. - Chris Rodgers

We're the social networking lemmings.... - Jonathon

Chris - excellent point... ok so what is *THE* killer app criteria that makes you LOOK? i.e. what is that "something really compelling" look like to you? - Susan Beebe

I'm not joining indenti.ca. Got a post up on Mashable about it. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

maybe I'm missing something, but I didn't really see anything at identi.ca to make me want to use it again. What's the big woof? - Harry Myhre

Harry: the "big woof" is the *RUSH* by early adopters to add more followers than YOU or I have on a bright new shiny app so they look cooler than you? Zzzzzzzz - Susan Beebe

Actually Susan, it's not about being cooler than anyone (but wow, glad you think so highly of me). It's part of my job to know how these things work. Also, I tend to join early to secure my name so it's not abused, which has happened in the past. - Veronica

Veronica you're cool. - John Worthington

Yeah true, by joining early , I always get to use elranchero ! - Harry Myhre

People are partyin' like it's 1999 on identi.ca LOL jeez - Harry Myhre

BTW, not feelin' it. - Veronica

Likely sign up, add the usual friends, play with a day or so and come running back to the FF/Twitter mega-combo. - Vince DeGeorge

Me neither Veronica...sorta basic huh? - Susan Beebe

I just joined the new thing too. identi.ca/jrmehle - Jared Mehle

never had an OpenID until this! Never could figure out how to get one. yahoo has made it easy now! - Harry Myhre

This might be a dumb question (at 1 AM) but why aren't people migrating to Pownce? - Charlie Anzman

Sadly, my Pownce page won't work anymore. It's a known issue with them, I guess. :( - Veronica

Daniel Burka actually mentioned recently that the Pownce issues unfortunately most affect users with a large number of friends on their account, but that it will be improving in the coming weeks. - Vincent X

I'm not joining...until somebody hits 5,000 subscribers. On plurk, all the biggies (leo, scoble, veronica) only have 1,000 friends/fans each. I wonder if Loic will create his own twitter service add-on to bundle w/ seesmic and twhirl? - Pokai

Hmmm, Pokai, you may be onto something - a service is not worth joining until XXX has X,XXX followers. That just may work. I like it! - Vince DeGeorge

That's a bummer on Pownce. Didn't really go there a lot but liked it. Thought they did a really good job with the UI. - Charlie Anzman

yeah i agree on pownce. Signed up, looked at it. Shrugged. Never used it! Digg is cool though. - Harry Myhre

I find it kinda easy with Ping... I barely realize where I am posting to, I just put out the content - Chacha

I checked pownce...kevin has 15,000 fans, then leo 4,500, veronica 5,000, Scoble 3,600 so there is mass at pownce, but kevin has said that pownce is more for sharing media than status/thoughts... - Pokai

DeWitt Clinton posted an entry on dewitt

Set up an account with OpenID in under 20 seconds. This is how things should be.

Wednesday at 5:42 pm - Link

Hmm... This triggered a few thoughts on how FF can better handle importing arbitrary feed-based content/activity streams. - DeWitt Clinton

One idea: surface the feed title in the FF UI. Another: use the specified feed icon. - DeWitt Clinton

And the good parts are things like what FF is starting to do with media enclosures. And someday (?) microformats. - DeWitt Clinton

FriendFeed Feedback: Daniel Schildt posted a link

Why aren't my Jaiku writeups getting updated to my FriendFeed profile?

Wednesday at 4:37 am - Link

I can't even import/add my jaiku account into friendfeed. Keeps saying can't find my jaiku username. - Randy

There's a bug with the feeds on the jaiku side that surfaced yesterday. The team knows about it and is working on a fix. - DeWitt Clinton

Feeds should be working again. Try importing now. - DeWitt Clinton

Chris Messina loved a song on Last.fm

Wolfmother – Joker & the Thief

Wednesday at 1:12 pm - Link

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I am so dialed-in to the Dark Knight at this point, as soon as I saw "Joker" I thought of that flick. Wow. - Adam Bullied via twhirl

I recommend Dungen, and to a lesser extent Graveyard, for fans of such retro rock. - DeWitt Clinton

Dimitri Glazkov posted a message

“While pouring coffee creamer, a piece of plastic falls out of the bottle and plinks into my coffee cup. Should I: a) discard the cup, b) carefully take out the piece of plastic and enjoy cofee, c) see how plastic tastes with coffee, d) ____?”

Wednesday at 7:24 am - Link

Discard the cup. It's been soiled by coffee creamer. The plastic is a red herring. - DeWitt Clinton

Where were you 30 minutes ago? Yours truly proceeded with option (b) only to discover another piece of plastic on his lip halfway through the cup. - Dimitri Glazkov

Haha! - DeWitt Clinton

Dare Obasanjo posted an entry on Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life

In Defense of XML

Wednesday at 5:56 am - Link

Dave Walker, John Bush and Brian Sullivan liked this

Dave Megginson nailed it when he said that all sufficiently expressive serializations in JSON, or any format, starts looking like XML in the end. When you start adding node labels and attributes and type information to JSON the output looks suspiciously like XML, just with curly braces instead of angle brackets. The problem being that those constructs aren't standardized in JSON. Read: http://www.megginson.com/blogs... - DeWitt Clinton

That said, for scenarios in which node metadata is unnecessary, and there are some, then JSON is the serialization format of choice for communication with unknown clients. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Screwed on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Tuesday at 10:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Three reasons: contracts, source code, and screws. Scratch one off the list, I guess. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Adewale Oshineye bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

TimeComplexity - PythonInfo Wiki

June 30 at 2:56 pm - Link

Isaac Hepworth, DeWitt Clinton and melmcbride liked this

"This page documents the time-complexity of various operations in current CPython" - Adewale Oshineye

I have NO IDEA what this is about but I felt I owed you a "like" or two - thing is you are just so damned hardcore! But you're on the right side of the force, Jedi - that I know ;) - melmcbride

Love it! I wish that every library, data structure, and algorithm publicly documented their average and worst case asymptotic time and space complexity, as well as their constant factors. Languages would be so much the better for it. - DeWitt Clinton

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Data Portability and Pushability with Gnip

Tuesday at 6:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Adewale Oshineye and Chris Messina liked this

Big thank you to John Musser at Programmable Web for explaining Gnip so clearly. I admit to first dismissing Gnip news as a bit of noise, but now I see that they are creating a highly valuable service. Expect Gnip-alikes to sprout up all over the place, and more power to them. Data providers and data aggregators alike should (if they're wise) be quick to embrace these mediation services as enhancements to their ecosystem. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Interestingly, this is what I expected FF to turn into, it makes so much sense. And then... nothing. - Steve Ivy

Not too late. And FF is in an even better position to serve as mediator -- they'll create additional value along the way in the form of discussion and comments. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Skydeck : Skydeck API and OAuth for OCaml

Tuesday at 1:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Chris Messina liked this

"Of course, we like OCaml here, so we are pleased to announce the release of an OCaml binding to the API. You can find it on our developer downloads page." Cool. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet