Nov 29

“CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a parser has been written for the language you are editing (see below for a list of supported languages), the code will be coloured, and the editor will help you with indentation.” CodeMirror: In-browser code editing

A sun-like star on the edge of our galaxy abruptly grew 600,000 times brighter in a few weeks and ballooned 1,000 times its diameter… The dilemma has been to explain how a star can go rogue — or rather go rouge — almost literally overnight.

(via Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision : Discovery News)

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Nov 26

Science in shackles | John Sulston

How science is shackled by intellectual property Ownership rights pose a real danger to scientific progress for the public good

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Lawnchair

Sorta like a couch except smaller and outside, also, a client side JSON document store.

Perfect for webkit mobile apps that need a lightweight, simple and elegant persistence solution.

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micro tiny storage without the nasty SQL: pure and delicious JSON
clean and simple oo design with one db table per store
key/value store.. specifying a key is optional
happily and handily will treat your store as an array of objects
terse syntax for searching and therefore finding of objects

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“My six year old daughter is the most precious and wonderful thing in the world, but she is not a Ming vase. She’s entitled to the choice and freedom I have, even if she chooses a riskier life than I have, or a less risky one. She’s entitled to make informed choices about the level of risk she assumes, armed with an understanding of how to cope with situations as they arise, and how to analyze both the world around her and her level of comfort with it. We do our child a great disservice when we protect them from all risk and harm, as great as letting them go into the world unable to read. These experiences are the things that lead to the social skills and confidence that let them find their place in the world as adults. To prevent them from talking to strangers or explore strange places is as disabling as protecting them from reading books because they might get ideas from them. Horribly, my social group is creating a construct whereby I can’t easily give my daughter her freedom without sending her the message that I don’t care about her.” Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto « Quinn Said

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“The new rule made it clear: if doctors didn’t follow every step on the checklist, the nurses would have backup from the administration to intervene.
Pronovost and his colleagues monitored what happened for a year afterward. The results were so dramatic that they weren’t sure whether to believe them: the ten-day line-infection rate went from eleven per cent to zero. So they followed patients for fifteen more months. Only two line infections occurred during the entire period. They calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs” Annals of Medicine: The Checklist : The New Yorker

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Nov 25

“Gestalt is a way to write Ruby, Python & XAML code in your (X)HTML pages.” MIX Online’s Gestalt: Write Ruby, Python and XAML in your HTML pages.

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Juicy Beans

35 Amazing Science Fair Projects: Pics, Videos, Links, News

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Nov 22

“g” is very useful

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RT @nakajima: @dguido Nobody I know uses watir. It’s mostly done with selenium, even though selenium feels like trying to get elephants …

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“Grant me a patent.”
“What? That’s ridiculous.”
“Sudo grant me a patent.”
“Okay.” http://bit.ly/1nBaN0

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Nov 21

RT @szeller: The value of rubyconf is the feeling that you should be out there building stuff. right now.

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Q: What would you leave out of Ruby if you were designing it again? A: (Matz) One divided by two should be 0.5. #rubyconf

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#rubyconf _why is gone: http://yfrog.com/4fegoyj

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Can’t decide which great #rubyconf inspired idea to work on : ActiveRepository or Monkey Patch Detector

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alexch's almanac

Laundry day, see you there, underthings tumbling.

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Science in shackles | John Sulston

Lawnchair

Lawnchair

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alexch's almanac

Laundry day, see you there, underthings tumbling. Stalk me: tumblr twitter reader facebook flickr friendfeed blabs

Science in shackles | John Sulston

Lawnchair

Lawnchair

Features

Laundry day, see you there, underthings tumbling.

Stalk me: tumblr twitter reader facebook flickr friendfeed blabs