ELI5: During opening credits of a tv show, all of the actors and actresses names appear at the bottom of the screen but the last person getting the credit gets a special "Derp McDerpison as Steve" credit. Why is that? : explainlikeimfive. Novice Cyclists Dust Off Their Bikes After the Storm - Metropolis.
Introducing Clark Street's New Buffered Bike Lane, Where Bikes Protect Parked Cars - By Kevin Zolkiewicz. The City of Chicago recently repaved Clark from Diversey to Addison. In the process, a new buffered bike lane is being striped on this portion of the road. This morning, Bike Walk Lakeview tweeted a photo of the newly striped lane just north of Diversey. I’m disappointed with the results. I’m no traffic engineer, but I don’t see why there wasn’t enough room for a protected bike lane in this stretch.
While the City has not released the striping plans for this project, there appears to be a 2-foot wide, traffic-side buffer and a 6-foot wide bike lane. Had this been designed as a protected bike lane, with parked cars to the left of the lane, you could install a 5-foot bike lane with a 3-foot buffer between the parked cars and the bike lane. I’ve heard that a buffered lane was installed as part of this project, in favor of a protected lane, due to lack of funding. This, folks, is not how you build 100 miles of protected bike lanes in four years. SLENDERMAN HALLOWEEN 2012 PRANK DEPAUL UNIVERSITY. Online Portfolios on Behance.
Join the Movement - App.net. GREEN PORNO: SNAIL. My hygienist just told me not to put water on your toothpaste before brushing your teeth. I couldn't find any documentation online as to why this might be, any thoughts? : AskReddit. Sensory Overload (Interacting with Autism Project) Bemelsa - Home. WorkFlowy (WorkFlowy) Anyone else using workflowy.com? Stepping Out of Squalor - Online organization tool: WorkFlowy. I've been continuing to play with / use Workflowy. The play with part is mostly coming to grips with the keyboard shortcuts (On PC use: Ctrl ?). As for the 'use', as in ... continuing to 'use Workflowy'. Well .... (drum roll) .... here appeareth a major problem! A quick reflection:I'm thinking I don't even know what 'organisation' is.I'm trying to work on a 'To Do' list and I've been struggling.I think I know what being organised might look like, at least the results of it.I see someone / thing ....
Say a livingroom area, some times it is a magazine or TV show / ad image.And it is laid out and working (clean / clear / beautiful) ... but my space isn't. I additionally add this from the perspective that my Workflowy lists are 'a dogs breakfast' (as we would say here in Australia). So, I labor the point again that I lack organisation, even more relevantly, I don't even think I know what organisation is. Seeing my failure in creating order is very exciting to me (I must be nuts to say that). Workflowy « Developmentality. Today’s post is about WorkFlowy, a great, free web application for creating and managing lists. It is the best tool for organizing TODOs and random thoughts out of anything I’ve found. First, let me describe the two main problems I have with todo/note taking software I’ve tried previously. Secondly I’ll show how WorkFlowy alleviates these problems.
TODO: fix these problems! There have certainly been other TODO list applications that I have used in the past, but they usually suffer from at least one of the following problems: 1) They require too much information about each item When I’m jotting things down, I rarely care about prioritizing it, giving it a due date, assigning it a label, tag, etc. 2) They force you into a flat mode of thinking When I’m trying to right down all the thoughts in my head related to a given project or task, they often are deeply hierarchical. (Here’s a visual representation of the nested list I described earlier:) A A.1A.2 A.2.iA.2.iiA.2.iii WorkFlowy Top level lists. WorkFlowy. WorkFlowy - Organize your brain. Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local. Either that, or faster-than-light communications is a go. : science. Assessing Damage From Hurricane Sandy - Graphic.
Natural Selection 2 Launch Trailer. This looks God Damn Amazing for an Indie game. [Natural Selection 2] : gaming. Natural Selection 2. Real-time Web with Node.js. Nobody got our costume & we didn't care. Playing your childhood hero for a night is awesome. HTML Reference. CSS Syntax. Out to Crunch: U.S. Energy Department Unleashes Its Titan Supercomputer. Ligature Symbols by Kazuyuki Motoyama : web_design. N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (Trailer) Should the U.S. Default on Its Debt? Is there a place for God in Education? Should I learn PHP or Ruby on Rails. Node.js: 2012 - Will Node.js emerge as a major winner of the battle of the web servers. Event-driven programming. Event handlers[edit] A trivial event handler[edit] Because the code for checking for events and the main loop do not depend on the application, many programming frameworks take care of their implementation and expect the user to provide only the code for the event handlers.
In this simple example there may be a call to an event handler called OnKeyEnter() that includes an argument with a string of characters, corresponding to what the user typed before hitting the ENTER key. To add two numbers, storage outside the event handler must be used. The implementation might look like below. globally declare the counter K and the integer T. OnKeyEnter(character C) { convert C to a number N if K is zero store N in T and increment K otherwise add N to T, print the result and reset K to zero } While keeping track of history is straightforward in a batch program, it requires special attention and planning in an event-driven program. Exception handlers[edit] Creating event handlers[edit] See also[edit]
Asynchronous I/O. Input and output (I/O) operations on a computer can be extremely slow compared to the processing of data. An I/O device can incorporate mechanical devices that must physically move, such as a hard drive seeking a track to read or write; this is often orders of magnitude slower than the switching of electric current. For example, during a disk operation that takes ten milliseconds to perform, a processor that is clocked at one gigahertz could have performed ten million instruction-processing cycles. A simple approach to I/O would be to start the access and then wait for it to complete. But such an approach (called synchronous I/O or blocking I/O) would block the progress of a program while the communication is in progress, leaving system resources idle. When a program makes many I/O operations, this means that the processor can spend almost all of its time idle waiting for I/O operations to complete.
Asynchronous I/O is used to improve throughput, latency, and/or responsiveness. 20 Best Sites Built with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails became a popular web application framework because of how easy it promotes the rapid prototyping methodology used by web developers in rapid development. Of course, being an open source project also helped Ruby on Rails establish itself as one of the most popular web development tools as well. New developers often get caught up working with PHP over Ruby on Rails because so many applications are built using the PHP language like WordPress, Joomla, Wikipedia and others.
Because of its popularity, PHP has become one of the most popular “tools” for web developers and Ruby on Rails is often overlooked as a result. However, it is a bit unfair, and ignorant, to compare PHP to Ruby on Rails since one is an actual programming language (PHP) and the other is framework (Ruby on Rails). To level the playing field, let’s take a look at some of the best sites built with Ruby on Rails: 1. The project management site that started the Ruby on Rails phenomenon. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Ruby on rails - What is preventing Twitter from scaling. How's the latest Ruby on Rails code.
Twitter: blaming Ruby for their mistakes? "It's a poor workman who blames his tools... " With the Internet abuzz about Google being in talks with Twitter, it seems that Ruby has become the proverbial whipping boy for Twitter's scaling problems. Twitter developer Alex Payne is now preaching Scala is the new Ruby, and panning Ruby for its technical foibles: One of the things that I’ve found throughout my career is the need to have long-lived processes. And Ruby, like many scripting languages, has trouble being an environment for long lived processes. But the JVM is very good at that, because it’s been optimized for that over the last ten years. I've certainly been bitten by Ruby's poor garbage collection. Except Ruby does run on the JVM with JRuby, and this is something mosts Rubyists I know are aware of.
I can only assume someone at Twitter knows about and has used JRuby. At the heart of this Ruby vs. Starling is quite possibly one of the slowest and most poorly designed message queues in existence. Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. Best Aromatherapy Books. I cannot design or code a responsive website | Opinion. HTML5 ranked headings for screen readers | Tutorial. The Game Genome Project. Lesson 1 - The Basics. I guess that's a choice. IfwRc.jpg (1280×1023) The Nexus 4: Google's flagship phone lands November 13th for $299 : Android.
Update: T-Mobile Confirms Nexus 4 HSPA+ 42Mbps Connectivity. Update: According to Google’s press release, the Play Store Nexus 4 does in fact have HSPA+ 42Mbps connectivity as well, it’s the Play Store specs that are incorrect. In an effort to clear up some confusion, I’ve re-confirmed with T-Mobile that the Nexus 4 sold by T-Mobile will have HSPA+ 42Mbps connectivity on board.
That’s different from the Google Play store which indicates the Nexus 4 will have HSPA+ 21Mbps. There doesn’t appear to be any other differences between the T-Mobile and Play Store models, other than the radio. Moreover, it’s entirely possible that the Play Store specs are remnants of the Galaxy Nexus and will be updated to show the radio later on. Then again, that may be wishful thinking and the unlocked version may in fact only be 21Mbps. To clear up one more question, the T-Mobile “edition” of the Nexus 4 is bone stock, no add-ons, bloatware or carrier branding. 2012 Fixed Gear Revolution 4 北京死飞大革命 4 官方视频. The best of Google, now in three sizes. A step by step method/guide to successful daygame! : seduction. Sweden Wants Your Trash : The Two-Way. Hide captionIn May 2011, uncollected rubbish piled up in Naples, Italy. Sweden hopes Italy might be willing to export the problem. AFP/AFP/Getty Images In May 2011, uncollected rubbish piled up in Naples, Italy.
Sweden hopes Italy might be willing to export the problem. Move over Abba, Sweden has found new fame. The small Nordic country is breaking records — in waste. Sweden's program of generating energy from garbage is wildly successful, but recently its success has also generated a surprising issue: There is simply not enough trash. Only 4 percent of Swedish garbage ends up in a landfill, according to Swedish Waste Management. Norway is now paying Sweden to take its garbage. Sweden is leading the way in waste management, but it is one of few. Sweden creates energy for around 250,000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system, Swedish Waste Managements says. "I would say maybe in the future, this waste will be valued even more," Ostlund said. Global Sea Level Rise Map - Global Warming & Climate Change Impact.
Western Interior Seaway. Western Interior Seaway during the mid-Cretaceous, about 100 million years ago Origin and geology[edit] The Seaway was created as the Farallon tectonic plate subducted under the North American Plate during the Cretaceous. As plate convergence proceeded, the younger and more buoyant lithosphere of the Farallon Plate subducted at a shallow angle, in what is known as a "flat slab". This shallowly subducting slab exerted traction on the base of the lithosphere, pulling it down and producing dynamic topography at the surface that caused the opening of the Western Interior Seaway.[1] This depression and the high eustatic sea levels existing during the Cretaceous allowed waters from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Gulf of Mexico in the south to meet and flood the central lowlands, forming a sea that transgressed (grew) and regressed (receded) over the course of the Cretaceous.
Widespread carbonate deposition suggests that the Seaway was warm and tropical, with abundant calcareous algae.[4] Helicopter Fishing. "Inherent in raising VC money is that it is at odds with the success of the founder." Interview with Founder Institute founder Adeo Ressi. The Founder Institute prides itself on being the “largest startup accelerator in the world”. Since it was founded three years ago by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi, it has helped 670 startups launch around the world. This fall, the Founder Institute will increase its footprint in Europe, with new chapters opening in Zagreb, Helsinki, Istanbul, Rome, and Kyiv. Whiteboard met with Founder Institute founder Adeo Ressi, who is on a tour in Europe to meet with the founders and chapters.
He talks about his goal of launching a thousand companies each year, about “graveyard ideas” and the horrors of raising money. “Anyone who thinks raising money is cool obviously never tried it. But first things first: why the increased interest in Europe as a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity? Adeo Ressi: “We’re expanding in Europe for 2 good reasons: one, there are a lot of fantastic entrepreneurs in Europe that we can help. In fact, I think we currently have more chapters in Europe than in the US. Cyclist's helmet-cam video lands driver in court. Close call with gunman exposes more dysfunction in Detroit Police Department | Motor City Muckraker |
This is the truck that pursued me, with a license plate number showing. Times like these – less than a day after a gunman chased me in a pickup at high speeds through Detroit’s east side – I wonder why I still live here. For the second time in a little over a year, I stared at the barrel of a gun. But I get that. Spending hours a day documenting life in the city’s most underserved neighborhoods comes with dangers.
A few people are bound to come undone. What’s unconscionable, though, is for a city government to so miserably fail at its most important responsibility – protecting its residents from danger. It’s no wonder a recent Detroit News poll found that 40% of residents plan to leave the city within five years because they feel besieged by relentless crime. Take Thursday afternoon. But as luck would have it, the twists and turns dumped me off on busy Gratiot, where the truck turned around and disappeared. I called 911 and described what had happened, gave her the license plate number. Love or nothing: The real Greek parallel with Weimar.
26 October 2012Last updated at 14:30 ET Of all the operas written during Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-33), probably the most haunting is the last. Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake, written with playwright Georg Kaiser, tells the story of two losers - a good-hearted provincial cop and the thief he has shot and wounded - as they make their way through a society ruined by unemployment, corruption and vice. After spending a week again in Greece - amid riots, hunger and far right violence - I finally understood it. The opera was meant to be Weill's path back into the mainstream. It was his first break from collaborating with Bertolt Brecht, and was scheduled to open simultaneously in three German cities on 18 February 1933. But on 30 January Adolf Hitler was appointed Germany's chancellor. The first performances of The Silver Lake were disrupted by Nazi activists in the audience and on 4 March 1933 it was banned.
It is easy to see why the Nazis didn't like The Silver Lake. Here's a short summary. Hitler speeches you maybe didn't see yet. (english Subtitle) Woohoo, It's the Future of War! Since the beginning of human history, humans have bickered constantly over territory, resources, and power. Now, with the possibility of a right-wing Mormon space cadet taking up residence in the White House before the year is out, the Muslim world ready to riot at the upload of a shitty YouTube video, and the advent of peak oil threatening industrial civilization as we know it, it seems likely that the skies will be full of unmanned drones rather than peace doves for a good while longer.
To make matters worse, the people who decide how the world's militaries spend their money are throwing enough currency to fill an atomic crater at the "coolest,” most futuristic technologies available, like kids on a sugar rush in an expensive, dangerous arcade. According to one US Army researcher, “You have to beg for money for things like beanbags or acoustics. But say it’s for a laser or a lightsaber, and money is no problem.” Fair point, Rob, you wouldn't even know the bastards were coming. “Robots? The Spookiest Things to Do in a Dog Park.
- Bring a Ziploc baggie of ground beef instead of a dog. Start to remove its leash. Look tentatively around the park. If someone catches you doing this, direct piercing, relentless eye contact at them while slowly refastening the leash on your beef. - Select a dog to never be more than four feet away from. . - Dig a hole in the center of the park until you are asked to leave. - Fake a phone conversation where you brag in a mostly unwavering voice about how you “can kick any dog’s ass,” are “always ready for a fight,” and “always leave the park with more than I came in with, if you know what I’m saying.” - Hide 12 security cameras and aim them at the same bench.
. - Open a blood bank. . - Haunt your blood bank. - Distribute uneven scraps of paper that say “New Friend Coupon: Good for One Free Foot Massage and Spa Night at My House! - Wear yellow rubber gloves. - Watch your dog play with other dogs. . - Wear a dark red bathrobe and stand with your back against the park gate. @meganboyle. TENGA Official Site. I'm in Love with This Fake Pussy. Girlsplaining. Hey Boston, Thanks to Annie Dookhan Your Streets Will Soon Be Flooded with Drug Criminals. The top 20 online coding tools. Hey WebDevs, I'm freaking out about something a recruiter said to me. I ask for your sage-like advice! : webdev. Dusty Brown - This City is Killing Me. Дрессура с кошками - Федоровы (2011) Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives. Been at this 10 years, my #1 tip. : seduction. Let's start a revolution. This 'W' nonsense has gone on far too long. : self.
How did/do different cultures anthropomorphize Death? How universal was the "Grim Reaper" version? : AskHistorians. Racing In Slow Motion IV. Touching 1000 Girls' Boobs In Public - Full Version. How Vikings Really Fought: Gotta-See Video. Sexy Sax Man Careless Whisper Prank feat. Sergio Flores (directors cut) What is the neurological difference between a schizophrenic's belief in a 'spirit' and a religious person's belief in angels and gods who intervene in their daily lives? : askscience.
If you would put water inside a diamond, seal it and freeze it would the diamond break? : askscience. How are coastal deserts such as the Atacama and Namib so dry yet so close to water? : askscience. MyWifesBusty comments on Is getting fitted for a bra as humiliating as it sounds? (Please, share your experiences, however mundane, and ease my fears.) IAmA professional bra fitter who has fitted sizes 28AA-56KK. AmA : IAmA. IAmA professional bra fitter who has fitted sizes 28AA-56KK. AmA： IAmA. A Bra That Fits. Joe Rogan and The Simulation Theory. Samsung's latest Galaxy S III ad touts sex tape-sharing with a quick bump. 'Cloud Atlas' Trailer. Lana Wachowski's Moving Speech About Growing Up Transgender.
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