January 2011
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Minecraft.
(The Escapist via Reddit)
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An XML schema is a separate file that you use to prove that your XML is...
– spoolio comments on Is it just me or did Oracle just break every schemaLocation in the Java universe?
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One day Larry and Sergey bought Android, and I didn’t even notice.
– Eric Schmidt in 2009 (via Daring Fireball)
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Making the Glif
Injection moulding with music.
(by Glif va Glif)
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Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif →
russianpencil:
On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing…
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This is a paradox in the sense that it’s a counterintuitive result; you’d expect...
– Ram Rachum, ‘The miserable programmer paradox’ (GarlicSim blog)
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This situation made Doktor Jutta Kella of the Hamburg uni internal-medicine...
– German docs develop remote-control stomach submarine (The Register)
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True story. Tomorrow is my son’s birthday, and his first-grade class has a...
– Daring Fireball Linked List
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I write free books and people buy them. It works out surprisingly well.
– Dive into 2010 [dive into mark]
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Welcome to Flavor Country: Restaurant idea →
flavorcountry:
As long as I’m going to talk about samosas, I might as well share an idea I once had for a restaurant that was based around dumpling-type foods. It consists of a space with several different stations set up, and each station has a chef who makes a dumpling-like food particular to their region.
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There are reports of at least one bull shark being spotted in the flooded...
– BBC News
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Paradoxically, this means that Davison and Tennant came together as both...
– Doctor Who to marry Doctor Who’s daughter • The Register
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about the Bechdel test. Many people think...
– The Bechdel test: it’s not about passing
The Hathor Legacy (via Faith Erin Hicks via Meredith Gran)