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Get Comfy in Your Friday Open Thread 1) I would start by scratching your own itch, so to speak. Is there something you and your friends and family could use a website for? Maybe you could write a small site that allows people to log in and maybe track some info about their day, or that provides some information about their location (weather, traffic, etc). As far as tools, you don't NEED anything more complicated than a good text editor like Sublime Text or Notepad++, something that has good syntax highlighting and supports a variety of languages like HTML and Javascript. 2) For hosting, Dreamhost is probably the easiest place to start. 3) This answer could get really detailed and complicated really quickly. Testing code is something that everyone should be doing, but not enough developers do well. So as developers, we would write code and do our testing in the development environment. I hope I've been able to answer some of your questions.
How to Start a Compost Pile A vegetable garden is more than what you see on the surface — dirt, plants and (hopefully!) some mulch. Under the surface, a complex web of dirt, roots, microbes and fungi transforms plain old dirt into a superior growing medium — soil. But that intricate web will exist only if you boost your plain old dirt with nutritious amendments, such as homemade compost. And in addition to being a garden soil amendment, compost can be worked into the soil around trees, bushes and flowers to also give them a nutritional boost. Composting is a natural process, similar to the way nature breaks down leaves and other dead material on the forest floor. Getting Started Where will you work your compost? If you don’t want to build your own cage, there are numerous sizes and shapes of commercial compost tumblers available. What to Add — Or Not The best compost heaps contain a good variety of green and brown ingredients: There are a few ingredients you should never add to your composting pile: Keep it Going
64 Things Every Geek Should Know « Caintech.co.uk If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. USB – Universal Serial BusGPU – Graphics Processing UnitCPU – Central Processing UnitSATA – Serial ATAHTML – Hyper-text Markup LanguageHTTP – Hypertext Transfer ProtocolFTP – File Transfer ProtocolP2P – Peer-to-peer sharing (See 2. 1. 3. Here’s what one looks like: 4. 5.
Top 10 Lesser Known Mysteries - Top 10 Lists | Listverse Mysteries It was Einstein that said ‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.’ The Brentford area of London is a peculiar place in terms of the names. There have been no other sightings since, and the Legendary Griffin has drifted into local folklore. Amphibians in Ancient Iraq In ancient Mesopotamia, the world’s first academically ratified, fully functioning civilizations of Babylon, Sumer and Akkadia emerged. A Sumerian priest named Berossus recorded how an amphibian, named Oannes, emerged from the Persian Gulf and taught the Sumerians numbers, medicine, astronomy, politics, ethics and law, encompassing all the necessities for civilized existence. Those who saw the animal dismissed claims it was a Hyena, due to its large hind legs. Valley of the Headless Men “Sign that parchment!
Four More Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now Forgive me, total noob with these using Chrome. I can't get any of them to work. 1. I pasted the following, into "Add a new search engine" named it Google Cache, keyword:cache. Then, I went to a site and typed cache then space from the address bar. Project Pegasus - Home How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks Bedeviling Phenomenon: What Do You Make of the 1,200-Foot Wide Pentagram on Google Maps? So, there seems to be a giant pentagram etched into a windswept corner of Kazakhstan in central Asia. Don’t believe us? The devilish symbol, measuring roughly 1,200 feet in diameter, shows up quite visibly on Google Maps: (Credit: Google Maps) It’s found on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir where there are almost no other signs of humanity; the closest settlement is the city of Lisakovsk, about 12 miles to the east, according to Yahoo News. Adding fuel to the proverbial lake of fire are reports that you zoom into the center of the pentagram on Google Maps, you can see two spots highlighted by previous visitors to the topographical app: “Adam” and “Lucifer”—and you know what figure that name is connected with… But believe it or not, archaeologist Emma Usmanova has worked in the Lisakovsk area and has an answer. “It is the outline of a park made in the form of a star,” she told LiveScience, Yahoo News reports. More from Yahoo News: (H/T: Yahoo News)
Five Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now Sure! So I made a js scriptlet that can be used to enhance any normal search url with a lot more wildcards and hosted it here Just like a normal search url you put the url at the front (replace the url variable with the new one you want) and put in wildcards for where you want dynamic text inserted. However, instead of just getting %s afterwards you get 7 now: %e = enterred text (except ending w, t, or c) %h = highlighted text on page %q = search string (equivalent to (%h %e).trim()) %d = domain of current page %u = full url of current page %t = title of current page %l = current location (format is '{curr lat} {curr long}') This allows you to make some pretty nifty search engines. www[dot]google[dot]com/maps? Map all things that match {typed or highlighted text} near me now www[dot]google[dot]com/maps? Give me directions from where I am now to {typed or highlighted text} www[dot]downforeveryoneorjustme[dot]com/%(q||d) Check if the site is down.
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