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Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence - Jem - UK parenting, lifestyle, fitness blog
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Jem - UK parenting, lifestyle, fitness blog. UK parenting, lifestyle, fitness blog. Meet my UK friends. Don’t Blame CSS For Your Incompetence. Posted on February 3, 2009. I feel like shit, and have spent a proportion of the afternoon in bed so really shouldn’t be involving myself in this right now, but I can’t help it. Work in tables. Anyway, I’ve stepped in because now both sides are spreading misinformation. Firstly, pro-tables Ron Garret used a 3-column layout taken from a 3rd party website. Both are ...
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From Del.icio.us to Pinboard.in with Python | Caffeine Fueled Dreams
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From Del.icio.us to Pinboard.in with Python. 09:21 Sunday the 19th of December 2010. The sad news that Yahoo plans. To shut down del.icio.us. Reached me this week (although theres still hope. I use del.icio.us. Pretty much every day and was a little traumatized upon hearing this. Once I had finished wailing and gnashing my teeth I set out looking for somewhere to go. There are many bookmarking sites/services out there, but I fear change, and pinboard.in. Now to get my bookmarks into pinboard.in. User = s...
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Streaming uploads to S3 with Python and Poster | Caffeine Fueled Dreams
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Streaming uploads to S3 with Python and Poster. 16:25 Sunday the 24th of January 2010. Library I can lay my hands on (for Python at least), seems to read the entire file to be uploaded into memory before sending it. This might be alright when uploading lots of small files, but I have needed to upload a lot of very large files, and my poor old server would creak under the weight of that kind of memory usage. I managed to bolt a solution together using urllib2 and poster. A little about how S3 works. Conte...
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The 128-bit programming challenge
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This is a snapshot of my old weblog. New posts and selected republished essays can be found at raganwald.com. Wednesday, May 02, 2007. The 128-bit programming challenge. Information wants to be free. Mdash;One of the lessons from The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. Here’s a programming challenge:. Write a program that produces 128 specific bits of output. In the simplest case, output those 128 bits in a standard numeric form such as sixteen pairs of hexadecimal digits. Your program may. Or if...
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9 Resume Tips That Should Be Screechingly Obvious (But Apparently Aren’t) | Former Slacker
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A Journey to Productivity. This site is archived and no longer updated. February 8th, 2007. 9 Resume Tips That Should Be Screechingly Obvious (But Apparently Aren’t). These are all basic rules, but they all seem to get broken constantly. All of these should be obvious to anyone who’s conscious (maybe even the lightly sleeping), but they must not be. On to the rules! Remember to attach your resume. Don’t dump your resume into an email. Microsoft Works is not your friend. I know, you’ve got Works alr...
