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MenTaLguY: www. and Redirects
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Wednesday December 21 2011, 10:34 PM. I mentioned on Twitter that I think most websites ought to provide service with both. Less hostnames, and also that one of these ought to be canonical, and the other redirect to it. I’d like to take a little more space to unpack my reasoning, and what I personally do about it. A respectable number of non-technical users (at least, the ones who don’t simply use web search to find everything — raise your hand if you’ve seen relatives laboriously type. On the other hand:.
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MenTaLguY: Hibernate Not Working on Your Ubuntu Laptop? Try "hibernate"
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Hibernate Not Working on Your Ubuntu Laptop? Tuesday February 08 2011, 06:58 AM. Since I first got it a few years ago, I haven’t had much luck getting Ubuntu to suspend or hibernate my Toshiba laptop. Suspend does finally work out of the box with Ubuntu Maverick (10.10), but I still haven’t had much luck with hibernating, even with Maverick. Hibernate – smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM. Suspend and the in-kernel software suspend), as well as Software Suspend 2 (http:/ www.suspend2&...
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MenTaLguY: Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change
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Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change. Saturday February 05 2011, 06:57 AM. Over the past year and a half or so, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot more about personal improvement, the formation of habits, and so on. Along these lines, I recently read set of slides from a presentation given by BJ Fogg et al. from Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, which I thought offers a very nice summation of some of the things I’ve learned. Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change. Hat Tip: Giles Bowkett. Me: T...
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MenTaLguY: Kitten (and Chipmunk) in Slow Motion
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Kitten (and Chipmunk) in Slow Motion. Thursday February 10 2011, 03:49 AM. What’s the Internet for, if not for posting pictures of cute animals? A Polish studio specializing in high-speed photography, put up a really charming slow-motion video of a kitten playing outside:. PhantomHD – Kitten in Slow Motion.mp4. The “Phantom HD” in their domain name is a reference to the Phantom HD. Cameras from Vision Research. Rents and uses.). Also, a bonus video, alas without a cool soundtrack:. I work for them).
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Page 2 of 58). Saturday October 23, 2010. 07:57 PM: Metroid: Other M - The Elephant in the Room. Marked the release of. But this is not a gameplay review. I’m here to address the game’s writing — not so much where it failed artistically (though there are some legitimate complaints to be made on that front), but unfortunately where it succeeds. When it comes to the game’s story, there is an elephant in the room which very few reviewers have addressed head-on. Thursday October 21, 2010. 8220;Maru” is...
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MenTaLguY: A Monkeypatching Decorator for Python
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A Monkeypatching Decorator for Python. Thursday March 22 2012, 08:32 PM. I had to do a bit of Python monkeypatching today — purely in the name of expediency, you understand — and like most things that are discouraged in Python, monkeypatching turns out to be a rather laborious thing. So, I wrote a simple decorator that automates the tedious bits and works more or less along the lines of Phil Hagelberg’s Robert Hooke library in Clojure. Typical usage looks like this:. It doesn’t really matter what y...
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MenTaLguY: Sprockets Versus CommonJS: Require for Client-Side JavaScript
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Sprockets Versus CommonJS: Require for Client-Side JavaScript. Saturday June 18 2011, 11:55 AM. Once you’ve split your client-side JavaScript application into nice, self-contained individual files, you have two new problems:. Your application has to make a bajillion individual HTTP. Requests to pick up each one of these individual files; the need for so many HTTP. Transactions kills your load time. To the top, and the text of the referenced file (in this case,. Searches “system” paths, whereas. Looks in ...
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MenTaLguY: Queueing Theory: Why the Other Line Moves Faster
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Queueing Theory: Why the Other Line Moves Faster. Thursday March 03 2011, 01:06 PM. In this video, Bill Hammack breezes through an introduction to basic queueing theory, the discipline established by Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang. Yes, the Erlang programming language is named after him.). Why the other line is likely to move faster. All fields are optional. Feedback is private by default; if it's okay for me to post your comment publicly, be sure to say so. I work for them).
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MenTaLguY: Saving Money with Amazon S3 and Bittorrent
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Saving Money with Amazon S3 and Bittorrent. Sunday February 27 2011, 11:07 PM. I’m not the biggest fan of Amazon lately, but if you happen to be using S3 for hosting big downloads, or if you want to permanently publish a file using bittorrent without having to maintain your own seed for the rest of time, S3 has a little-used feature that could save you a lot of trouble — and potentially money. Seeding Torrents from S3. Upload a file to S3 and make it public. Visit the file’s URL. In my experience, when d...
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MenTaLguY: Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Web
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Friday February 11 2011, 11:12 AM. The Open Rights Group. Interviews Neil Gaiman about his experiences with online piracy:. Also, here’s a journal entry. That Gaiman posted during his. Experiment, responding to the concerns of an independent bookseller:. I don’t see this as either. They get it for free or they come and buy it from you. I see it as. Where do you get the people who come in and buy the books that keep you in business from? Read the rest…. I work for them).
