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Living Room / Watch lightning strikes in real-time
« on: June 23, 2014, 02:09 PM »

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Living Room / The Onion launches new site: Clickhole
« on: June 13, 2014, 04:38 PM »
The Onion has launched a new site aimed at parodying viral news sites like Buzzfeed, Upworthy, etc.


What is the goal of ClickHole?

Let’s be honest: Today, the average website carelessly churns out hundreds of pieces of pandering, misleading content, most of which tragically fall short of going viral.

At ClickHole, we refuse to stand for this. We strive to make sure that all of our content panders to and misleads our readers just enough to make it go viral. You see, we don’t think anything on the internet should ever have to settle for mere tens of thousands of pageviews. We believe that each and every article—whether about pop culture, politics, internet trends, or social justice—should be clicked on and shared by hundreds of millions of internet users before they can even comprehend what they just read.

ClickHole has one and only one core belief: All web content deserves to go viral.  

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http://www.clickhole.com/



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Days after Samsung introduced a Tizen OS-based smartphone, a UK-based analyst declared the operating system a non-starter, despite its backing by a consortium of heavyweights including Intel, Samsung and LG Electronics.

"Is Tizen going anywhere? In a word, no," wrote Andrew Sheehy, chief analyst for Generator Research in an online research report.

To support his view, Sheehy said the OS is five years behind Google's Android and Apple's iOS and has the support of only a small cadre of developers compared to the millions writing applications for Android and iOS. "Watching Tizen's development is like watching a car crash in slow motion," he wrote.

In comments to Computerworld, he added, "As far as a viable alternative to Android, Tizen is dead in the water."

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249035/Update_Tizen_OS_declared_dead_in_the_water_

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Developer's Corner / Gamify your coding with Codeivate
« on: June 03, 2014, 05:03 PM »
Doesn't support very many text editors and IDEs, yet.

Don't be misled by any of the "free trial" buttons on the site. It's donationware. Payment to help support the site is appreciated and optional.

Think about how many hours you spend each day, month, and year, at work, school or home writing code. Codeivate is designed to record these allowing you to track your progress overtime, identify trends and compare yourself against others.
The more you code the higher level you will achieve in any of the 50+ languages Codeivate records. Code without getting distracted to earn Focus points.
Install the plugin through the Sublime package manager and check your stats in realtime. Compare yourself to others in the industry on the trends page. Log in to gain insight into your performance over the last week.
Codeivate is brought to you by a small, agile, experienced and passionate team from Wellington, New Zealand. Focused around crafting an interesting and useful service for programmers from beginner through to guru. Currently in beta and under active development Codeivate encourages self-improvement and motivates you to achieve mastery at your trade.

Features

  •     Tracks 50+ languages including:
  •         C++, Ruby, CSS, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML
  •     Community stats how are you doing vs the world?
  •     API access see http://codeivate.com/beta-api or https://github.com/codeivate/api
  •     Dynamicly updated signatures www.codeivate.com/users/paul/signature.jpg
  •     editable from github.com/codeivate/signature
  •     Online summary, compete with your friends
  •     Personal detailed dashboard, whats your most productive time of day?
  •     Easy installation through Sublime package control
  •     Cross platform Sublime text integration
  •     No hassle, passive recording
  •     Range of notification settings growl, notify-send
  •     Coderbits support

Benefits

  •     Based on the recognised 10,000 hours philosophy
  •     Trains you to focus
  •     Makes coding into a game
  •     Helps you to analyse and improve your work habits
  •     Encourages self-improvement
  •     Allows you to compare yourself with others in your industry

Roadmap

  •     Developer team dashboards
  •     More personal analytics
  •     Improved cheating detection
  •     Other IDE integrations
  •     Ideas welcome.

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http://www.codeivate.com

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Living Room / The Internet With a Human Face
« on: May 27, 2014, 10:26 AM »

INTRODUCTION

Marc [Thiele] emailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I thought my talk would be appropriate to close the conference.

"Marc," I told him, "my talk is perfect for closing the conference! The first half is this incredibly dark rant about how the Internet is alienating and inhuman, how it's turning us all into lonely monsters.”

“But in the second half, I'll turn it around and present my vision of an alternative future. I'll get the audience fired up like a proper American motivational speaker. After the big finish, we'll burst out of the conference hall into the streets of Düsseldorf, hoist the black flag, and change the world.”

Marc said that sounded fine.

As I was preparing this talk, however, I found it getting longer and longer. In the interests of time, I'm afraid I'm only going to be able to present the first half of it today.

This leaves me with a problem of tone.

To fix it, I've gone through the slides and put in a number of animal pictures. If at any point in the talk you find yourself getting blue, just tune out what I'm saying and wait for one of the animal slides, and you'll feel better. I've tried to put in more animals during the darkest parts of the talk.

Look at this guy! Isn't he great?



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http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm


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