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Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
Canine vaccines protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)BOSTON — Eleven-year-old “Ned Kelly” is in for his annual physical at a clinic in...
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Stunned by Go
The original working title for this post was "Go is hostile to developers". This was named at a time of extreme frustration, and it didn't quite seem right in the cooler light of days later. Instead...
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Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile
Nat FriedmanXamarin has had a great year. Here are just a few highlights from the last 12 months:Over 200,000 developers have joined our community, for a total of over 350,000. And the growth rate is...
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Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?
Like a lot of film writers, I spent a good deal of my life working in video stores. Some of that occurred in the time frame (2000-2002, roughly) when DVDs began to replace VHS, and as a result, I was...
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The Drone that Killed my Grandson
SANA, Yemen — I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he died.The missile killed...
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Effeckt.css
Performant CSS transitions & animations on GitHubModals #Source: CodropsFrom BelowFrom AboveSlide In (right)Slide In (bottom)NewspaperSide FallSticky Up3D Flip (horizontal)3D Flip (vertical)3D...
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VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link)
One Moment Please.Connecting to the iTunes Store.LoadingIf iTunes doesn't open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or Windows Task Bar. To download iTunes, please click here.
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Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems
When Bob Santilli, a senior project manager at UPS, was invited in 2009 to his daughter’s fifth grade class on Career Day, he struggled with how to describe exactly what he did for a living....
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San Jose State suspends online courses
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Five online classes that were announced with great fanfare by the governor at San Jose State University were suspended Thursday after more than half of the students failed the...
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Billing Incident Update
At 3:28am PDT/10:28am GMT, our monitoring systems reported an anomaly in our billing systems, which resulted in erroneous credit card charges and in some cases account suspensions. This incident...
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The Rule of Three
July 18, 2013Every programmer ever born thinks whatever idea just popped out of their head into their editor is the most generalized, most flexible, most one-size-fits all solution that has ever been...
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The Forbidden Island
The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader.Ever heard of North Sentinel Island? Probably not …even thought's one of the most unusual places on Earth. What makes it so...
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Mozilla’s WebGL2: an experimental WebGL implementation based on OpenGL ES 3.0
Contents1WebGL 2 prototype2Playground2.1Playground - OpenGL extensions needed2.2Playground - How to create a WebGL 2 context2.2.1Download2.2.2Run it2.2.3Configure it2.2.4Create the WebGL 2 prototype...
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The slippery slope
A paraphrased transcript of my talk at SMX Munich 2013Let’s start with a little game. In iOS, there’s an ad tracking feature that allows advertisers to identify you (albeit anonymously). It’s turned on...
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A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 to create artwork that has been described as “a collision of pointillism and 8-Bit art.” Lasko, who...
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How Emacs changed my life
http://www.publickey1.jp4392http://d.hatena.ne.jp3077http://hiroki.jp981http://www.redditmedia.com510http://ruby.developpez.com346https://twitter.com216http://www.softantenna.com83http://www.developpez...
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Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical TypographyButterick’sPracticalTypographyTypography in ten minutessummary of key rulesForeword by Erik SpiekermannIntroductionhow to use this bookhow to pay for this bookWhy...
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Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger
I’m perhaps one of the last people you’d expect to see stepping up to defend Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) but you’d be wrong because there are principles that come into play whenever a blogger, even...
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Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SF
Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SFI love food. This means that I'm bound to compete for reservations at good restaurants with the the hipsters that are native to San Francisco....
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FAQs: why we don’t have them
by Sarah Richards on 25/07/2013We are often asked to put content in Frequently Asked Question format (FAQs). They’re a popular convention on the web, but we don’t recommend them and here’s why:They’re...
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