Did you know that ~80% of the traffic on Google, Facebook and Twitter come from outside of the US?
Fred Wilson (avc.com) has written an insightful blog post titled "Does Rest Of World Matter More Than The US?". Fred believes that localization is key to monetize outside of the ...
Sapere aude! (Dare to Know)
— Horrace
Lamb chops with hot indian masala spices
Wimps tend to talk a lot about problems, and brave people tend to talk about challenges.
The belief that there's a solution to something converts it from a problem into a challenge.
— moi
Probably one of the best YouTube playlists around.
Epiphany!
The past days I learned great things today about Mercurial.
I found out Joel Spolsky's hginit.com. It teaches you the key concepts behind hg in a way which doesn't mess with complex internals, but focuses on what's important: the user experience.
I found out that ...
Saturday home-made india dish
Duvel and Thomas Mann
ack rocks. It's like grep, but you can also ignore .svn-like dirs and backup files (foo~, foo#), specify file types to search, color highlighting. Sweet!
http://betterthangrep.com/
On quality... By GapingVoid
Loving once again, after many, many years, "Hamlet of the Moon" by Christos Thiveos.
– I coded until 5am.
– I only coded until 10pm. You win.
– I'd say I'm the loser here...
Θέλω τη μέρα που θα φύγεις
απ' το πρωί να μου γελάς
κι όταν την πόρτα θα ανοίγεις
να είναι σα να μ' αγαπάς.
— Χρήστος Θηβαίος
Today I wanted to debug some of our unit tests, so I wanted to drop to a shell from inside a test case. Here's how that can be done:
import IPython
IPython.embed()
In previous versions this used to be:
from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed
ipython = IPShellEmbed()
ipython()
The ...
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
turning again toward childish treble, pipes
and whistles in his sound.Last scene of all
that ends this strange eventful history
is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes ...
Twister!
New toy: 2x2 cube
Patras Linux and Python groups meeting.
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hg, hack, rebase Slug: 2010-01-27-single-merge-rebase Status: published
`hg rebase` works well with merged branches. You can rebase a merged node perfectly. Additionally, with `--collapse`, you can hide the draft commits you might have done while developing. These help you do locally branched development.\ However, there's a ...
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shakespear, english Slug: 2010-01-25-all-made-of Status: published
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion and all made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance.
—
Shakespeare, "As you like it"
Avatar was astonishing. Fantastic.
Ξέρεις, καμιά φορά, θαυμάζοντας, ξεχνάς οτι θαυμάζεις,
σου φτάνει ο θαυμασμός σου,
θε μου, τι μάτια πάναστρα, κι ανυψωνόμουν σε μιαν αποθέωση αρνημένων άστρων
γιατί, έτσι πολιορκημένη απ' έξω κι από μέσα,
άλλος δρόμος δε μου 'μενε παρά μονάχα προς τα πάνω ή προς τα κάτω. -
Όχι, δε φτάνει.
Άφησέ ...
Rule #1 of photo equipment: If you can't find your lens cap anywhere, check your camera bag.
Sunday drawing with a warm cup of coffee
Mandarin oranges!