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A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell - http://blog.jonudell.net/2009...
I don't remember who I first heard it from, but "date-time is the devil" has been proven true to me. I've never heard a reasonable way to deal with the discontinuity between the real passage of time and our measurement of it.
- Jeremy Dunck
Digital Mapping & Navigation Solutions- Tele Atlas - http://www.teleatlas.com/index...
Competitor to Navteq
- Jeremy Dunck
Inference Group: Dasher Project: Home - http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher...
An awesome concept for text input.
- Jeremy Dunck
Elemental Scientific, LLC - http://www.elementalscientific.net/
Small quantities of 300 chemicals, delivered to anyone.
- Jeremy Dunck
VRBO® is Vacation Rentals By Owner - http://www.vrbo.com/
Pretty impressive in its depth.
- Jeremy Dunck
Balloon boy lie on CNN, part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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After a break from the live program, Blitzer goes after liars.
- Jeremy Dunck
Research of Sheena S. Iyengar - http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957...
~15 papers dealing with the psychology of choice.
- Jeremy Dunck
Obie Fernandez: 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses - http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content...
It may not make it mainstream, but it's useful. Worth trying. Competitive advantage?
- Jeremy Dunck
Realizing quality improvement through test driven development: results ... - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...
"[TDD practice resulted in]...pre-release defect density of the four products [decrease] between 40% and 90% relative to similar projects that did not use [TDD].... Subjectively, the teams experienced a 15–35% increase in initial development time after adopting TDD."
- Jeremy Dunck
MS Visual Round-Trip Analyzer - http://www.google.com/search...
Yet another HTTP analyzer; this one focuses on socket usage rather than resource waterfall. Windows-only, but cross-browser.
- Jeremy Dunck
mod_xsendfile - http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xse...
Adds X-SendFile support to apache
- Jeremy Dunck
Effective A/B Testing - http://elem.com/~btilly...
An outstanding rundown on A/B testing.
- Jeremy Dunck
Algorithmatic - http://www.algorithmatic.com/
An algorithms wiki w/ a built-in high-level code interpreter and automatic translation to various languages.
- Jeremy Dunck
An algorithms wiki w/ a built-in high-level code interpreter and automatic translation to various languages.
- Jeremy Dunck
Tile Drawer - http://tiledrawer.com/
An EC2 instance-builder to run a mapnik tile server based on OpenStreetMap. <3
- Jeremy Dunck
The Secret Weapons of the AOL Optimization Team - http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1...
tech: sonar/morphing, modconcat, modjsmin, moddims,"friendly iframing", competitor speed report/dashboard, performance beacon plus metrics showing front-end performance => more pageviews.
- Jeremy Dunck
Aptimize Web Performance Software: Speed Up Websites & Intranets Instantly - http://www.aptimize.com/
Claims to magically make web apps faster. Hmm.
- Jeremy Dunck
Why does Google Translate default to "Spanish" instead of "Detect language"?
Mitch, Jack Wilson, K4SAC, Shailesh Nalawadi and 33 other people liked this
That is one of my biggest annoyances.
- Bret Taylor
Prediction based on usage?
- Jeremy Dunck
BTW, I bookmarked http://translate.google.com/transla... for that reason.
- Bret Taylor
Good point. It could have taken the destination language from browser preferences too (I hate it when they - Google products - do it, but they do it for interface language sometimes anyway)
- Frère Noël
@bret: Thanks for the tip!
- Frère Noël
@Alex - Isn't that the point of browser preferences, though?
- Scott of Two Countries
Maybe Detect Language is resource intensive and they do it to reduce overhead.
- Daniel Shaw
When I asked someone on the team, they said it was because there were still some issues with language detection in a few cases, so they were staying with the most popular language pair as default.
- Alex Power
I guess it's related to usage as others said, as for myself most of the times I used Google Translate was for Spanish to English.
- Amit Morson
@maplestar: Scott, in the ugly situations when one's forced to bump Russian prio to be able to write Cyrillic e-mails via Outlook WebAccess, and gets 'localized' web sites as a side effect - I'm not sure it's quite THAT point people had in mind when developing the whole idea :)
- Frère Noël
They could at least save the most recent language pair in a cookie (or provide an option to do that).
- Ionut
@bleys @onu ditto - I'm tired already to switch all time from de-facto standard in California to my local Scandinavian-to-English/Russian needs :-/
- A.T.
saved bookmark...thanks Bret!
- Susan Beebe
I hate this and I speak Spanish.
- Adriana
Even if detect language is buggy (which it certainly is with short queries) it should go to the last language used. I live in a German speaking country and the "most popular" pair is irrelevant. I need german to english every time.
- Kenny Stoltz
from twhirl
Plus some translation really hurt my eyes! "Likes" ---> "Gustos"??? WTF?!
- Jordi Soler
Que?
- Chris Loft
Easy to change: I will decipher the meanings. http://translate.google.com/transla.... Click on link or you will not see what I'm talking about. ...hl=en (choices text in English); ...sl=en (From English); ...=ru# (To Russian). Bookmark this page. I love the swap button.
- Bob
Mine defaults to detect language.
- Sam Pullara
@bret That was a great tip. Just the other day I was trying to figure out what the heck language this piece of text was in.
- Ted Gilchrist
The translate buttons default to "any => yours" (useful): http://translate.google.com/transla....
- Michael Herf
My least favorite translate behavior: if you accidentally try to translate something from, say, English to English, translate will give you an error, rather than just redirecting to the page. So punitive.
- Michael Herf
Welcome to Texas :D
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
mine defaults to french, we-weeee
- chaz2b
Fried Babelfish: Don't let the name fool you, it uses Google Translate. Defaults to detect language -> English, but source is included and if you feel like changing it you can. Has 2 tabs, so you can have 2 language pairs ready for translating back & forth between 2 languages without having to keep switching the settings. http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums...
- April Russo (app103)
Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2 - http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstr...
I may actually have to do this, dammit.
- Jeremy Dunck
moddims - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
Apache module that integrates ImageMagick to resize and crop images dynamically. Great for generating thumbnails on-the-fly. e.g. http://dims-host/dims3...
- Jeremy Dunck
Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong! - http://www.matasano.com/log...
Cryptography, the screenplay.
- Jeremy Dunck
12 early warning signs of IT failure | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/project...
"12 early warning signs of IT failure" I saw a lot of these coming, but did not successfully address them. How many times does this have to happen?
- Jeremy Dunck
TrafficServerProposal - Incubator Wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/incubat...
Competitor to varnish and squid, it seems
- Jeremy Dunck
up and running with cassandra :: snax - http://blog.evanweaver.com/article...
Twitter is starting to use Cassandra.
- Jeremy Dunck
evilchelu's braid at master - GitHub - http://github.com/evilche...
Alternative to git submodule, for tracking git and svn externals
- Jeremy Dunck
Muuttaa - digg - Muuttaa is a self-regulating SQL queue - Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
Muuttaa is a partitioned, persistent, self-regulating SQL queue that allows you to queue up alterations to your DB(s) and have them ran over time without crippling your DB(s) or the slaves. A common problem facing high volume websites is moving large pieces of data around, backfilling new denormalized columns or running large DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE queries.
- Jeremy Dunck
Final Builds Site - Internet Explorer Collection - http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecolle...
Install multiple (hacked up) versions of IE side by side.
- Jeremy Dunck
Wikitech-l Info Page - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman...
wikitech-l is the dev mailing list for mediawiki, which powers wikipedia. There are a bunch of smart PHPers there, and they can probably point you in a good direction to learn. They are currently debating whether dropping 5.0 support is worth gaining closures (new in 5.3).
- Jeremy Dunck
The Pie Of Time « Crimespotting - http://blog.crimespotting.org/2009...
They even adjust light/dark based on calendar selection. Sweet.
- Jeremy Dunck
Aline Ohannessian to Aline's feed, Social Media Club, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, Appetite
Wolfram Alpha Google Firefox Add-on! - Display Wolfram results in Google searches - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
Laurentiu, Amin, Maciej Burczyk and 17 other people liked this
No need to switch search engines when you can use both at once!
- Aline Ohannessian
from Bookmarklet
This is great! Thanks Aline for sharing! And don't forget Good Search to add to your toolbar as well. SET A DAY OF THE WEEK TO USE IT and contribute to your favorite cause or charity every time you search: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar...
- Melanie Reed
@Melanie: Fantastic! Thank You! - Blessed Light :o)
- Aline Ohannessian
Hmm...makes Wolfram fairly useable now
- Nicholas James
If it becomes at all popular, Google will nuke it-- it's breaking ToS by hiding their adwords placement.
- Jeremy Dunck
Jeremy: Ad blocker is popular and its on chrome they don't care its only going to loose them a few cents anyway
- Nicholas James
The unfundable world-changing startup - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
David Eedle, Helen Sventitsky, Burak Arikan and 24 other people liked this
All about Terry Jones' Fluid Info, which is really awesome.
- Robert Scoble
I am curious though. If there is no funding for it, is he willing to get some users on it in order to promote the technology?
- Rob Diana
I met Terry a while back. This thing really is awesome. My impression is that he's basically a little concerned with premature exposure. He has this idea of what it is and should be, and is worried that people won't get it. Maybe he's over it now-- joking aside, Scoble featuring is a big promotion. I hope he gets the attention he richly deserves.
- Jeremy Dunck
I really enjoyed the videos. Not only is his idea a possible "game-changer", but watching him describe his work it's impossible to miss how passionate he is about it. I wish him the best of luck!
- Jeffrey Marsh
Robert - please keep us posted on Terry Jones' "Fluid Info" - I think that is simply amazing technology and highly disruptive as it is so dang different! :)
- Susan Beebe
Ha - I just found this thread in Google. Thanks for all the wishes. We're hoping to get an alpha out at the end of June. There's a TON to do before then though.
- Terry Jones
Terry also talked at PGCON recently [ http://bit.ly/9ANOf ]
- Arvind
nice
- Jordi Rivero
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