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threeifbyrobots: In the year 252525. Thank you @ashkalb

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:52:00 -0800

threeifbyrobots:

In the year 252525. Thank you @ashkalb

are you the freelance programmer? Need help with development project..

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:56:09 -0800

I am indeed. What can I help you with?

Photo

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:59:20 -0800

1 in 5 APIs Say “Bye XML”

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:01:05 -0700

phenotypical:

via blog.programmableweb.com

/* Life Runs On Code */: Building Windows 8

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:06:05 -0700

/* Life Runs On Code */: Building Windows 8:

rondroid:

Improvements in Windows Explorer
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post…

http://base64decode.org/

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:01:05 -0700

http://base64decode.org/:

alanfeekery:

A very handy website to encode & decode BASE64 strings. Always nice to know what is in the viewstate of your web form application.

itsfullofstars: NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:06:06 -0700

itsfullofstars:

NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. The footage, which we edited, arrived on VHS. We don’t know much about it, except that it’s playful in tone, so we decided to have some fun with it, too. Here’s an “instructional video” on survival in space, in case we ever decide to resurrect the program.

Credit: Emily Bogle & Mito Habe-Evans/NPR

Via @spacefuture

http://base64decode.org/

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:24:20 -0700

http://base64decode.org/:

alanfeekery:

A very handy website to encode & decode BASE64 strings. Always nice to know what is in the viewstate of your web form application.

@DigitalSocrates, what are your mighty artist thoughts on this...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:17:29 -0700

@DigitalSocrates, what are your mighty artist thoughts on this device?

nerdlands:

fico! :-P

nerdlands: Le DDR sono lente, pure le DDR4....ma le Hybrid...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:06:05 -0700

nerdlands:

Le DDR sono lente, pure le DDR4..
..ma le Hybrid Memory Cube di Micron promettono miracoli…

invaderxan: Size comparison of Earth next to Sirius B (a white...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:06:05 -0700

invaderxan:

Size comparison of Earth next to Sirius B (a white dwarf star).

abluegirl: Higgs boson may be a mirage, scientists Hint ...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:05:05 -0700

abluegirl:

Higgs boson may be a mirage, scientists Hint

Scientists chasing a particle they believe may have played a vital role in creation of the universe indicated on Monday they were coming to accept it might not exist after all.

But they stressed that if the so-called Higgs boson turns out to have been a mirage, the way would be open for advances into territory dubbed “new physics” to try to answer one of the great mysteries of the cosmos.

The CERN research center, whose giant Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been the focus of the search, said it had reported to a conference in Mumbai that possible signs of the Higgs noted last month were now seen as less significant.

A number of scientists from the center went on to make comments that raised the possibility that the mystery particle might not exist.

“Whatever the final verdict on Higgs, we are now living in very exciting times for all involved in the quest for new physics,” Guido Tonelli, from one of the two LHC detectors chasing the Higgs, said as the new observations were announced.

CERN’s statement said new results, which updated findings that caused excitement at another scientific gathering in Grenoble last month, “show that the elusive Higgs particle, if it exists, is running out of places to hide.”

NEW PHYSICS

The centre’s research director Sergio Bertolucci told the conference, at the Indian city’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, that if the Higgs did not exist “its absence will point the way to new physics.”

Under what is known as the Standard Model of physics, the boson, which was named after British physicist Peter Higgs, is posited as having been the agent that gave mass and energy to matter just after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

As a result, flying debris from that primeval explosion could come together as stars, planets and galaxies.

In the subterranean LHC, which began operating at the end of March 2010, CERN engineers and physicists have created billions of miniature versions of the Big Bang by smashing particles together at just a fraction under the speed of light.

The results of those collisions are monitored by hundreds of physicists not just at CERN but in linked laboratories around the world which sift through the vast volumes of information generated by the LHC.

Scientists at the U.S. Fermilab near Chicago have been in a parallel search in their Tevatron collider for nearly 30 years. Last month they said they hoped to establish if the Higgs exists by the end of September, when the Tevatron closes down.

For some scientists, the Higgs remains the simplest explanation of how matter got mass. It remains unclear what could replace it as an explanation. “We know something is missing, we simply don’t quite know what this new something might be,” wrote CERN blogger Pauline Gagnon.

“There are many models out there; we simply need to be nudged in the right direction,” added Gagnon, an experimental physicist.

By far the best example of 3d printing of I’ve seen, not...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:01:06 -0700

By far the best example of 3d printing of I’ve seen, not the only one though……http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tms7_FCwHwg&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_86682

digitalsocrates:

leafette:

chawan:andyts:

GUYS.

3D PRINTING.

SCAN AN ITEM.

PRINT A DUPLICATE.

NO.

FUCKING SHIT.

IM SERIOUS.

WATCH THAT FUCKING VIDEO.

teh futures.

I know someone who needs to see this.

dotPeek - Free .NET decompiler from JetBrains

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:34:06 -0700

dotPeek - Free .NET decompiler from JetBrains

Print to MS-DOS "CON"

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:11:06 -0700

rondroid:

A feature of Windows treat all files which start with CON (with any extension and any case) as the console. So when you tried to compile a Java code with Con as the class name, the output will be written on the console when the javac writes Con.class =)

Causes my Windows 7 to beep 3x :) THIS IS NOT A JAVA BUG OK but a feature of Windows =)

See: http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/08/strange-hello-world-in-java.html ^_^

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XSL Transformations in .NET 2.0

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:06 -0700

XSL Transformations in .NET 2.0:

ndiacio:

One of the main benefits of XML is that it separates data from its presentation. Without further elaboration, this claim seems ordinary. However, if you combine XML data with an XSL Transformations (XSLT) style sheet, you will then have a powerful way to dynamically transform and present information in any format you want. Furthermore, often the structure of an XML document created by one application does not match the structure required by the other application to process that XML data. To transform the existing XML data structure into one that can be processed, you need to use XSLT. Having realized the need for an efficient built-in support for XSLT processing, Microsoft has built a set of highly optimized classes into the .NET Framework 2.0 that are robust and scalable. This article will explore the rich XSLT support provided by the .NET Framework 2.0 by providing examples on how to use the XSLT related classes to create rich ASP.NET Web applications.

abluegirl: Tempest - And absolutely stunning time-lapse...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:00:05 -0700

abluegirl:

Tempest - And absolutely stunning time-lapse photography video of the Milky Way and a thunderstorm by Randy Halverson.

umurgedik: Stripes — a conceptual operating system user...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:01:05 -0700

umurgedik:

Stripes — a conceptual operating system user interface

Using Reflection to Get and Set values of Properties

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:06:05 -0700

Using Reflection to Get and Set values of Properties:

This should be useful for one of my current development projects…..

kenyatta: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:27:58 -0700

kenyatta:

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

“Aidan Dwyer took a hike through the trees last winter and took notice of patterns in the mangle of branches. His studies into how they branch in very specific ways lead him to a central guiding formula, the Fibonacci sequence. Take a number, add it to the number before it in a sequence like 1+1=2 then 2+1=3 then 3+2=5, 8, 13, 21 and so on a very specific pattern emerges… Aidan reports the results: “The Fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat-panel model. The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day.”
slavin: The comments below the story are awful, and worth ignoring. His science isn’t perfect. But if the story is not about how a 13-year old has saved the world, but simply about a 13-year old who deduced the golden mean in nature, and seeks to bring its application to solar energy and other things that interest him, then good, it’s a good story.
(via Inhabitat)