July 2009
11 posts
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Way Basics →
An interesting take on storage furniture. These guys make tape-together paper furniture. It’s recycled, recyclable, and apparently quite strong.
The link is to a gallery of people’s designs with their products. Some of them are pretty nice.
Introducing Weaver
The Problem
I work in Django, both professionally and in side projects. This leads to an ever growing number of sites to do deployment and updates on. Deployment is repetitive and irritating, even when you can just copy and paste config files around and do some local edits. Stuff always breaks, and take way more time than you thought you would.
The Solution
Automated deployments. For Django,...
Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead →
Company reps for Robotic Technology Inc, the makers of the EATR, have actually had to come out and say that their robot, which can charge itself by consuming organic matter, is not designed to eat corpses.
What a world we are creating.
“Apple thinks this is good enough.
And that’s the scariest part of all.”
– From Marco, of Instapaper, regarding his growing concerns about the App Store.
“Imagine driving down the road next to a winding river, and having the road...”
"turtles all the way down" →
1061: * Well, really it can be either line or character spacing but it's
* just turtles all the way down!
*/
Python vs Ruby: It's a cultural Issue →
This is a cultural issue. In the Ruby (or Perl) community, if you use obscure language features to do a common task in a single line of code, you will be worshipped as a god. In the Python (or Tcl) community, you will be viewed with suspicion. Not that Python doesn’t have one-liners (e.g. comprehensions) - just that everyone agrees which ones and when and how to use them.