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inessential.com: One of My Mistakes
But I’ve long had a similar question about NetNewsWire. Back in 2002 and 2003, when NetNewsWire would read a feed, it would send the URL of NetNewsWire’s product page as the referer. That was wrong. (It’s also what other readers did, so I justified it as the then-current best practices.) It wasn’t a privacy violation — it wasn’t terribly wrong — but it was still wrong because it was misusing the referer. (The user-agent is where that info was supposed to go.)
January 2012
Wikipedia Map Interface
The dynamic map is completely created in your browser. This has the advantage that the map is interactive, you can zoom into it, change colors, and see for every point what article it is and link to it. But it has the major disadvantage that it requires some heavy resources. This link may crash your browser. Use a reasonably fast machine, a current version of Chrome, and be patient while loading the data — your browser is loading more than 50 MB of data and processing it via JavaScript into an HTML5 Canvas.
December 2011
HTML Formatting for Custom Menus | Digging into WordPress
November 2011
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism
DATA GRIOTA few months ago last.fm started looking for a data griot – in their words, a griot “must … have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his understanding of history formidable.”
HTML5 - 12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas
Public transportation sites can list nearby bus stops and metro locations.Late night out? Taxi or car service Web sites can find where you are, even if you don’t know.Shopping sites can immediately provide estimates for shipping costs.Travel agencies can provide better vacation tips for current location and season.Content sites can more accurately determine the language and dialect of search queries.Real estate sites can present average house prices in a particular area, a handy tool when you’re driving around to check out a neighborhood or visit open houses.Movie theater sites can promote films playing nearby.Online games can blend reality into the game play by giving users missions to accomplish in the real world.News sites can include customized local headlines and weather on their front page.Online stores can inform whether products are in stock at local retailers.Sports and entertainment ticket sales sites can promote upcoming games and shows nearby.Job postings can automatically include potential commute times.
This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years
Ultimately we're trying to build the next Visa, not the next PayPal. We're building a human network based on how we think the future of payments will work. The current model needs to be blown up.
Larry King to Divorce Wife No. 7 After Rehab Stint ?
Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 | ZDNet
defunkt/jquery-pjax - GitHub
October 2011
Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!
Des scientifiques sur le point de lire dans les pensées d'autrui - LeMonde.fr
September 2011
anddev.org • View topic - Poor mans GPS - Cell(Tower)ID / Location Area Code -Lookup
August 2011
F-Droid · Repository
Measuring a platform’s smartness - QuirksBlog
However, it would be a mistake to compare the current browsing stats to the current sales stats. The browsing stats are mostly caused by already deployed devices, including the three-year old devices that are still the best the less affluent smartphone users have. So it’s best to see the current browsing stats as a kind of 12- to 24-month moving average of smartphone sales coupled with platform “smartness” (and note the deliberate vagueness and huge margin of error). That explains Symbian’s continued dominance: its sales market share may plummet all it wants, people still have an awful lot of Symbian devices on hand to do their browsing with.
deCarta Remains Nimble in Mobile and Internet Geographic Search Market - Directions Magazine
JF: To what can you attribute the growth with Opera? You’ve indicated that some of this is from emerging markets. Can you elaborate? KF: Opera has been a great partner and has really helped us get this going within their huge user base. To some degree, our current customers reflect the distribution of Opera Mini users. Many of these are in emerging markets such as India, Indonesia and Russia, where the mobile phone is the primary means of accessing the Internet for many people. However, we are seeing a lot of traffic from North America and Western Europe as well. User engagement – measured in visits per user and page views per visit – is strong around the world.
July 2011
The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine
C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.
Selenium with Python — Gist
Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access Selenium WebDrivers like Firefox, Ie and Chrome. The current supported Python versions are Python 2.6 and Python 2.7. Python 3 is not yet supported.
Google started deleting business profiles on google+ | Google-Plus.com
We have warned users from creating business profiles on google+ since google is working on profiles for business exclusively and plans to keep the current Google+ primarily focused on consumer.
Google+ n'est pas pour les gens, Google+ n'a pas d'utilisateurs : Google+ c'est pour les consommateurs.
Post de Sebastian Posth
Current number is 17.121 german-language EPUBs, assuming we have them all, which is not unrealistic. Bad compared to English, but not abysmal, by the way. Italy, Spain, France, even Korea are much worse.
Tokyo University: Spring Forward to a Fall Start Date? - Japan Real Time - WSJ
Change is never easy, but in this case, it would also come with some real challenges. There is the crucial question of how a change would affect the recruiting schedule, as the current system revolves around an April start date.
Trans-Atlantic Time Trap - The Daily WTF
On most computers, including the developers', the code simply set the system date to the current month, day and year. On the French computers-where dates use the DD/MM/YYYY format-the code swapped the months and the days.
La grande habitude américaine : "on most" signifie en fait "aux USA".
June 2011
The Death of Captain America Omnibus
May 2011
April 2011


