December 2009
17 posts
The programming language Python was named after...
Whitespace (programming language) →
…lolwut?
Quick service from StackOverflow team →
Since I have two OpenIDs I use, I accidentally had created two accounts on StackOverflow, a site which uses OpenID for authentication. You can tie more than one OpenID to an account, but not if one is already in use on another account. I sent team@stackoverflow.com a quick note explaining I wanted my second, accidental account deleted so I could merge my OpenID in, and I had edited the second...
Merry Christmas, internet!
Thanks for all you’ve done for me :)
Face-detection is racist? Well, duh. →
The darker the skin, the harder to see the shadows. That’s not a problem with the algorithm, it’s a fact of nature.
Microsoft loses suit, to be banned from selling... →
On January 11th, if Microsoft has not replaced their XML-handling technology with something non-infringing, they will not be able to sell any more copies of Office. Pwnt.
Gmail just makes things so intuitive.
Searched for “is:read !is:starred in:inbox”. Got me exactly what I expected: read, unstarred items in my inbox.
Microsoft blatantly steals from startup →
In case you hadn’t heard, M$ apparently totally ripped a new feature of theirs off of Plurk. And not just a line of code or two. See images.
The Onion: the entirety of history in review →
Mhm. The top 10 stories of the last 4.5 billion years.
Google countdown... to what? Guesses? →
Click “I’m Feeling Lucky” without typing anything in.
Google Chrome ad - that's cool →
Some neat tricks they use here to illustrate Chrome’s features, but using no electronics. Very, very cool.
Finally open-sourced something. →
On Friday I decided I wanted to do some open-source coding. But I had no idea what sort of project I actually wanted done. So I revisited this one that I tried like twice before and had previously ended up with a hodgepodge of functional and blow-your-brains-out ugly and slow code. Now I’ve got a good app that compiles all the latest Neopets news from all the coolest Neopets sites. Since...
Google Chrome for Linux. About time. →
Watched the last episode of Monk.
Excellent and lovely.
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