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> We're talking about a traffic spike that is 30-to-1 type ratios. In other words, 30 times more IPv6 traffic is coming out of Google's data centers than before. Given that Google …

Same thing applies to tutorials which don't mention version numbers and such...

http://www.macruby.org/ not sure if it's rewritten in ObjC or just integrated-with

This seems like an absurd, silly idea.. 1) Have any laptops (or MP3 players) actually been used to smuggle explosives onto a plane? 2) Aren't laptops and such searched for explosiv…

It looks fine to me..

Futurama proposes a different reasoning for the inevitably changing human-robot ratio (I couldn't find a clip of it, so.. use your imagination): Fry: Well, so what if I love a robo…

Given that Gemcutter is a relatively new service, my first guess would be the graph is skewed if they switched to gemcutter before other popular Ruby projects (more so if FXRuby is…

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/516406/latex-equivalent-t... lists a bunch of possible options that would be rather trivial to integrate (either a modified version of Markdown, …

The whole sentence regarding an if blocks (lack of) scope seems.. wrong. > .. since y has never been declared in that given scope. I don't quite know how Pythonists handle this, bu…

Good or bad, I'd say Apple are pretty much stuck with ObjC. Cocoa and all the other frameworks OS X uses are written like they are because of the language's syntax. This is demonst…

The git checkout [filename] behaviour always confused me.. Yes, it's documented, but git seems to really try and make it difficult to lose any work.. but has a command that makes i…

I present to you, Ubuntu in D Minor: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bc9a7de093071754ed24a2875... ...it's not actually in D Minor, but it's certainly Ubuntu (ubuntu-9.04-desktop…

Good point, or you end up with situations like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm > When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply …

It'd also be nice if the scroll-position was saved when you close the application.. When you reopen the file, it's always back to page 1..

Their plan seems to be, give stuff away for free, charge for more storage. I would have been surprised if they charged for the iPhone application..

When invites are available, perhaps something similar to the GMail Invite Spooler ( http://isnoop.net/gmail/ ) could be created? It would certainly beat the inevitable mass-posting…

Not at all... http://dslrfilm.com/?p=340

They should just switch to Objective-C/Cocoa and that code would be perfectly normal!

http://www.stifflog.com/2007/05/09/erlang-for-the-practical-... Not the best tutorial ever, but I found it helpful.. It describes a fairly simple, but non-trivial task (creating an…

More importantly, why hasn't http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth taken off? This is more practical (and cuter) than using brand-logos.. Pictures of kittens and other animals are eas…

The "new web standard" is as obscure as "sw", and has various flaws.. Perhaps the biggest flaw is that the notation does not work for all-upper-case sarcasm, such as "A web standar…

What exactly has Folding@home achieved in the time it's been running (about 8 years now)? It's a nice concept (using idle CPU time to help cure diseases!), but the papers on the F@…

What about something like.. defaults = load_stored_config_to_dict('example.conf') parser.add_option( "-q", "--quiet", action="store_false", dest="verbose", default=defaults['quiet'…

A lot? There's about two lines I'd consider "boiler plate" (three if you count the import) from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() # initialise parser parser.add_…

It would be nice if this was back-ported to Leopard (so you could use GCD without the application being Snow Leopard only), I wonder how difficult this would be..