Brewing Tea Tea Plant All true tea comes from the camellia sinensis plant. The final product falls into one of three categories, depending on how long the tea is allowed to ferment: green tea, oolong tea, and black tea. Black Tea Black Tea is dried on special withering racks. Then, they're rolled, left to ferment in special temperature and humidity controlled rooms for two to four hours, and finally allowed to dry. Chai Tea Chai is actually the generic word for tea in many languages. Green Tea Green tea is not fermented at all. Oolong Tea Oolong tea is only partially fermented. Loose Leaf Tea vs. Photos from Wikimedia
iTechMax - Software, Technology, Blogging, Tips and Tricks TechCrunch Quotes » Fact Fanatic I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Unknown He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise - Follow him. - Chinese proverb Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley I am free, no matter what rules surround me. -Heinlein If it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid. -Murphy's laws of combat. We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. -Anonymous Draw a line. The only people you need in your life are the ones that proved they needed you in theirs. - Anonymous -Ralph Waldo Emerson -W.
COLT + RANE Metaprogramming Metaprogramming usually works in one of three ways[citation needed]. The first way is to expose the internals of the run-time engine to the programming code through application programming interfaces (APIs). The second approach is dynamic execution of expressions that contain programming commands, often composed from strings, but can also be from other methods using arguments and/or context.[1] Thus, "programs can write programs." Although both approaches can be used in the same language, most languages tend to lean toward one or the other. The third way is to step outside the language entirely. Approaches[edit] In statically typed functional languages[edit] Usage of dependent types allows proving that generated code is never invalid.[2] [edit] [edit] Macro systems[edit] IBM/360 assembler[edit] Examples[edit] #! This script (or program) generates a new 993-line program that prints out the numbers 1–992. One style of metaprogramming is to employ domain-specific programming languages (DSLs).
[nytlabs] History of the browser user-agent string In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing. And Netscape supported frames, and frames became popular among the people, but Mosaic did not support frames, and so came “user agent sniffing” and to “Mozilla” webmasters sent frames, but to other browsers they sent not frames. And Netscape said, let us make fun of Microsoft and refer to Windows as “poorly debugged device drivers,” and Microsoft was angry. And so Microsoft made their own web browser, which they called Internet Explorer, hoping for it to be a “Netscape Killer”. And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames.
Blog.SpoonGraphics C (Programming Language) C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time,[8][9] and C compilers are available for the majority of available computer architectures and operating systems. C is an imperative (procedural) language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, such as in system programming. Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming. The C language also exhibits the following characteristics: The origin of C is closely tied to the development of the Unix operating system, originally implemented in assembly language on a PDP-7 by Ritchie and Thompson, incorporating several ideas from colleagues. The cover of the book, The C Programming Language
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups Editor’s note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 and was also founding CEO of digital media company RMG Networks, backed by KPCB. Follow her on Twitter @aileenlee. Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about “billion dollar exits”? So, we wondered, as we’re a year into our new fund (which doesn’t need to back billion-dollar companies to succeed, but hey, we like to learn): how likely is it for a startup to achieve a billion-dollar valuation? To answer these questions, the Cowboy Ventures team built a dataset of U.S. Learnings to date about the “Unicorn Club”: We found 39 companies belong to what we call the “Unicorn Club” (by our definition, U.S. Some deeper explanation and additional findings: So, what does this all mean?
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