micrypt

There's the monthly London Python Code Dojo (which is excellent). Announcements are on the python-uk mailing list. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

"In 2004, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote to prospective shareholders about their vision for the company, they outlined a commitment to contribute significant resources, including 1% of Google's equity and profits in some form, as well as employee time, to address some of the world's most urgent problems. That commitment became a range of giving initiatives including Google.org."

- http://www.google.org/about.html

FluidDB is very exciting technology once one gets past the initial "WTF". I'm looking forward to more user-facing applications.

Not really a Tickery question, but I'm curious about how one could extract subsets of data for off-line use and then replicate this when back online. Understanding that the plan is to open-source FluidDB, what kind of resources would be required to run a "mini-FluidDB"?

Interesting. Is there a Python/Django equivalent to Rails Magazine?

That's generally on sites hosted by wordpress.com (TechCrunch and others).

"refusal to work with CommonJS..." I thought this was a thing of past. Node.js is listed on the CommonJS website: http://www.commonjs.org/impl/

It sounds like "The Social Network" might be getting a sequel. :)

While this might be true, quite often there is no clear path for how a designer would get involved and help out with design. Perhaps a "Getting involved - Contribute to Design" page with pointers on getting started would be handy on open source project websites.

Also in the same vein: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst, Are full of passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats

Starting to wonder if the media frenzy is partly a case of the media feeding the fire. I don't know many "normal" people who are "flocking to find delete instructions" yet.

Conspiracy theory time: News.com.au <= News Corporation => MySpace

JavaScript is the new BASIC.

Just enough time to send in a last minute guess then? :P

"I've never hired someone who knew Rails."

Looks like you will soon. :)

"We're hiring a Rails/jQ developer. NYC or Chicago."

What about the unfounded rumours related to the Cupertino chaps building/buying a search engine? Duck Duck Go + a splash of brushed aluminium...

Might as well get the chatter started :P

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke :)

...where are all the Russian users?

Jetpack Mockup Clarification & Apology to MetaLab

http://mozillalabs.com/jetpack/2010/03/10/jetpack-mockup-cla...

Wow. Thanks. :)

[7] Building Bioinformatics Solutions: with Perl, R and MySQL (Paperback)

- sent an email earlier.

True. Made a few adjustments and I think it looks a bit better already: http://twitpic.com/15t9cc/full

Agreed. Altruism is rarely ever a bad thing. The issue is balancing the time requirements for charitable ventures and those for personal advancement.

Perhaps approaching gaming as a streamed service in the manner proposed by OnLIVE (http://www.onlive.com/) could be a viable means of reducing piracy. It seems possible for a sizeable games publisher to move to a subscription based business model.

Yes, "This site is about Arc, a new dialect of Lisp..." Paul Graham & Robert Morris

Reminds me of Chris Messina's talk “Identity is the Platform”.

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/video-of-my-talk-ident...

It also appears like Chrome is eating into Firefox's market share.

Couldn't help but think "CrunchPad" as soon as I read that.

Exactly the same thoughts here. His entire blog post flashed through my head in the time it took me to click the link. Then I had to read it all over again...