Hey guys, this is a project I put together last night. I thought it would be great to gather photos and stories about the impact of K&R on your life as a programmer. So if you have a second, snap a photo with your copy of K&R. Upload via http://kandrandyou.org/submit. If you don't have tumblr (which I'm assuming most of you don't) you can post your image in this thread or send me an email at [email protected]
I like the concept of these wallets, but the idea of having to plug my wallet in every night to charge a battery is less than appealing. I think the simplicity of the wallet, especially in today's world of smart phones, is one of its most attractive features.
Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there.
I personally have become a huge fan of statically-generated blogs (using Jekyll[1] for Ruby or Hyde[2] for Python) as they integrate great with version control and require little maintenance. Another benefit is speed, as nginx serves static content with ease.
After reading the article, I looked into similar services available online. While I couldn't find any blogging sites, both WriteAPrisoner[1] and PrisonPenPals[2], while dated, offer to connect visitors with incarcerated pen pals.
Even more interesting, however, is that the State of Arizona banned these types of interactions in 2000[3], only to have to the law struck down as unconstitutional four years later. Specifically, the law banned any "attempts to correspond with a communication service provider or remote computing service" such as the sites listed above.
Facebook can't claim that "every person owns and controls his/her information" when the Graph API allows access (via friends permissions) to your friends' status, likes, notes, location, photos, relationships, checkins, website, groups, events, activities and birthdays[1].
In fact, the only information about your friends not available via friends permissions are email addresses and full streams.
Your photos are easily accessible using the Graph API[1]. I wrote a python script which downloads all your photos and saves them to your computer[2]. However, I agree that Facebook doesn't make it easy for other web services to access stored data.
Shouldn't you be using CC0[1]? Your blog posts are automatically covered by copyright when they are created. I think the Public Domain Mark is only for works already in the public domain.
However, I am not entirely sure about this, so clarification would be great.
I wrote a similar Python script[1] a couple of months ago that crawls the Graph API and downloads all your Facebook notes and photos. I recently started work on the script again, but after today's announcement, I will probably stop development. Oh well.
At an altitude of 100,000 ft (30.48 km), the balloon reached the stratosphere portion of our atmosphere. The space shuttle and other spaceships reach the thermosphere, which is the layer between 95km and 600km. The space station orbits at an altitude of 350km. The edge of space, called the Karman line, is 100km above the Earth, meaning that the ballon technically did not enter "space". Regardless, this experiment and it's footage are fantastic.
Rapleaf.com offers similar services. With just an email address you can find "Demographics, Influence, Interests, Social media memberships, Occupation, and much more."[1]
The decision to drop IE should be made after consulting your logs. How many users would you be turning away? If a substantial portion of users are on IE, it may be best to just support IE8 (or maybe only IE9) to ease development problems.
1. you are doing some computationally heavy task or 2. your fan may be faulty
Simple as that.