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Chris Lasher
Bioinformatics grad student at VT, music lover, human being.
explain xkcd - http://www.explainxkcd.com/
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[Found via Michael Foord] A website dedicated exclusively to explaining the popular geek webcomic xkcd.
- Chris Lasher
Comment by gotgenes on Python reverse / inverse a mapping - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
sorl-thumbnail — sorl-thumbnail v3.2 documentation - http://thumbnail.sorl.net/docs...
"The sorl-thumbnail package provides an easy way to generate image thumbnails."
- Chris Lasher
Comment by gotgenes on How to I control the order in which Test::Unit tests are run? - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
'The Onion': Mocking All Who Deserve It Since 1988 : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...
Interview with two editors at The Onion for the release of their latest book.
- Chris Lasher
Abstruse Goose » Landscape - http://abstrusegoose.com/211
[Found via Duncan Hull]
- Chris Lasher
Answer by gotgenes for What are the best iPython tutorials? - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
Comment by gotgenes on What do you wish you'd known about when you started learning Python? - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
Worried, with @aswarren, that Google Wave is too complicated to be "email... invented today".
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No contemporary communication paradigms function really well on it. And that's a Bad Thing. Sure it's "like" email, sure it's "like" IM, sure it's "like" Google Docs, but as the combination of all of those, none of those ways of thinking about it work effectively. I can't imagine it appealing to anybody but a very small portion of people on the net. And that's a Really Bad Thing.
- Chris Lasher
Agree, I don't think it's anything like what email would be like "if invented today". My feeling is that it's usefulness will be determined by the number + quality of robots/gadgets/whatever they are. Another thought: the best software does one thing well.
- Neil Saunders
Dan Hagon made a good point which was to think about where the pain points are in today's processes and find the cases where Wave deals well with those. Or to put it another way, what are the use cases where the ability to collaborate are most effective. The most interesting demos will be the ones where people don't know they are using Wave though I suspect.
- Cameron Neylon
Though there is another point - Wave is exactly like email in the way that people have extremely different ideas about what it is for and how to use it. Half of this discussion is people talking past each other.
- Cameron Neylon
You've got a point there, Cameron. Much of the criticism I hear about Wave is really just criticism of the knocked-together client. Not much interesting is going to happen with Wave until the serious developers start playing around with it and putting some really good stuff together. Whether or not that'll happen is yet unknown, but Wave is a pretty cool tech from a protocol standpoint....
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- Mr. Gunn
YouTube - Mega Man Costume - Here come the PEW's - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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[Found via BJ Wimpey] Very cute, very geek.
- Chris Lasher
The Gmail errors arise from signing into my Gmail account on multiple machines. Used to work; now it locks up access on all. Anyone else?
@bryanleroylewis Have "Undo send" labs feature enabled? If so, disable it, and try multi-logon again; see if that fix works for you, too.
YouTube - Grad Students - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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It's funny, because it's true. Saved because I always want to refer to it. [These clips tend to get DMCA takedowns, so if this one doesn't work, check my bookmarks for the same clip on Yahoo! video.]
- Chris Lasher
Great Documentation Is Key to Open Source Success - Webmonkey - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
[Found via imabonehead] The title says it all.
- Chris Lasher
While U.S. Economy Struggles, China's Rises : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...
"A humbled United States is slowly recovering after sparking the global financial crisis. China, on the other hand, has handled the downturn with ease and appears to be leading the world out of recession, while increasing its influence in Asia. But Chinese people say their economy has a long way to go, and America still has some big advantages."
- Chris Lasher
What The Future Holds When China Rules : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...
[Found via Naveed Massjouni] "The mainstream Western attitude has held that, in its fundamentals, the world will be relatively little changed by China's rise. This is based on three key assumptions: that China's challenge will be primarily economic in nature; that China will in due course become a typical Western nation; and that the international system will remain broadly as it now is, with China acquiescing in the status quo and becoming a compliant member of the international community. Each of these assumptions is misconceived. The rise of China will change the world in the most profound ways."
- Chris Lasher
C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13 | Going Deep | Channel 9 - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows...
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A series of lectures on functional programming, taught in Haskell.
- Chris Lasher
Comment by gotgenes on For what reason do we have the lower_case_with_underscores naming convention? - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
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