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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m. UTC Fire Sleds Today most people on station have the day off; some 'Cubers are working, though — I’m taking it a bit easy to try to finally overcome the twin poisons of altitude sickness and paucity of sleep caused by the usual jet lag, lack of nighttime, noise on station, exhaustion, et cetera . Yesterday a large group of us had snowmobile training, focused largely on the rules (helmets for all d..
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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Oltre il 50% degli utenti web ora supporta il formato video HTML5
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Proprio ieri in Adobe Flash è una Pessima Idea concludevo sostenendo che l’adozione dei nuovi standard HTML5 e CSS3 sarà molto più rapida di quanto non si immagini. Nemmeno ventiquattro ore dopo ecco la notizia che oltre il 50% degli utenti web supporta già il formato video HTML5 . La fonte dei dati è StatCounter , ancora oggi una delle piattaforme più usate al mondo per tracciare la navigazione sui siti web.
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m. UTC Radio measurement Woke up before 0500h to do some work on the detector and get caught up on emails & such. Today’s post is going to be brief since it is almost time for breakfast and the morning meeting. Last night was the first time I’ve worked (or even gone) outside since arriving the day before. Sebastian and I did some radio noise measurements out in Summer Camp (a collection of Korean-War-....
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Oltre il 50% degli utenti web ora supporta il formato video HTML5
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nicolaiarocci.com
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15 years ago
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Proprio ieri in Adobe Flash è una Pessima Idea concludevo sostenendo che l’adozione dei nuovi standard HTML5 e CSS3 sarà molto più rapida di quanto non si immagini. Nemmeno ventiquattro ore dopo ecco la notizia che oltre il 50% degli utenti web supporta già il formato video HTML5 . La fonte dei dati è StatCounter , ancora oggi una delle piattaforme più usate al mondo per tracciare la navigazione sui siti web.
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There is a great debate in C-style languages about the position of the asterisk and the space when declaring pointers: MyType *x; // Original C style MyType* x; // The other style I was reminded of this when attending an Objective-C training course recently. Apple’s tools create declarations of the first form, the trainer preferred the second form. I remember having an opinion on this debate back when I first came across the second form, ..
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work. The current barometer reads 10,369 feet and, while I really felt the altitude last night, today I feel almost normal. My dorm room is noisy as usual, and not light-tight (recall that it is always daylight outside), but somehow I managed to sleep 6 hours or so, without earplugs. The first couple of days you are supposed to take it real easy and I kno....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole. At the moment we are airborne on Flight P-106. There are 17 of us today plus a palette or so of cargo, with plenty of room on the C-130 to spread out. I, for one, am standing in the middle of the plane, with the laptop perched atop some bags. A few others have found spots on the floor or are checking out the flight deck one by one. Yesterday’s ....
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O cómo las empresas convencionales lo usan para su propio beneficio... Pongámonos en este caso: vas de camino a una farmacia, o a un supermercado de una cadena nacional y cuando pasas por caja, la gentil cajera que poco o nada sabe del asunto te pregunta: "¿Acumula puntos?, ¿Cuál es su RUT?". ¿Cuál será la idea a través de esto? Muy simple: Información. Como dice una vieja frase: la información es poder. Y las multinacionales y grandes em..
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E’ incredibile la quantità di siti che ancora oggi vengono sviluppati con Flash. Il fenomeno colpisce soprattutto i siti-vetrina: negozi, attività commerciali, ristoranti, artigiani. Basta farsi un giro sui siti di venditori di mobili, per esempio, per godersi il trionfo della ‘ multimedia platform ‘ di Adobe. Bisogna prenderne atto: nel 2011 migliaia di aziende italiane di ogni dimensione affidano la loro identità web ad Adobe Flash. Consu..
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E’ incredibile la quantità di siti che ancora oggi vengono sviluppati con Flash. Il fenomeno colpisce soprattutto i siti-vetrina: negozi, attività commerciali, ristoranti, artigiani. Basta farsi un giro sui siti di venditori di mobili, per esempio, per godersi il trionfo della ‘ multimedia platform ‘ di Adobe. Bisogna prenderne atto: nel 2011 migliaia di aziende italiane di ogni dimensione affidano la loro identità web ad Adobe Flash. Consu..
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I was thinking about some of my favorite books recently. I wouldn’t necessarily call them all time favorites - they’re just the ones that have stuck with me and have been the most memorable.
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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized. I had chalked it up to the whimsical vagaries of military flight schedules (picturing some tough hombre of a McMurdo Ops flight sergeant displaying active and deliberate lack of consideration for everyone’s sleep schedule)....
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While working on my Masters thesis, I needed a solid database benchmark. RUBBoS is a fairly common benchmark in the field, but unfortunately is a few years out of date. While it was fantastically simple to set up, I did run into a few issues associated with newer versions of PHP and Java as well as a few minor bugs. Since the benchmark is fully open-source, I decided to release my modifications. You can download these changes to RUBBoS vi..
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m. UTC ARO, antenna, geographic pole marker, and pedestrian Satellite is up in a few minutes so I’d better prepare today’s post. Been jonesing for a bath the last couple of days. Those 1-2 minute showers every couple of days are getting old. We have a massive exodus of IceCube drillers leaving in a few minutes (all but one, 21 in all) on today’s passenger flight. Hopefully they won’t get stuck in ....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one. Arrived yesterday afternoon to the heat of high summer and found out directly that our clothing date would be this evening — and that we were scheduled to fly immediately after receiving our cold weather gear. That gives just over a day here, which is shorter than I might have liked, but which might result in arriving at the Pole and getting settled in sooner, which would also be nice. The....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line. Not to mention the fact that there was no WiFi on the flight (though apparently some planes have that now). My second flight didn’t take off until nearly midnight, local time. I dread the flight to Auckland more than any other stage of the trip; it feels like the bardo state from Tibetan Buddhism, in wh....
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Qualche giorno ReadWriteWeb ha chiesto ai suoi lettori quali sono i linguaggi di programmazione che pensano di studiare nel 2011. La selezione è piuttosto ampia e include buona parte i linguaggi attorno ai quali c’è fermento questi mesi (tra gli altri Clojure , Go , Erlang , Haskell ). Ci si rivolge a programmatori esperti che hanno già maturato una certa esperienza, probabilmente per questo motivo sono esclusi alcuni grandi classici ..
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Qualche giorno ReadWriteWeb ha chiesto ai suoi lettori quali sono i linguaggi di programmazione che pensano di studiare nel 2011. La selezione è piuttosto ampia e include buona parte i linguaggi attorno ai quali c’è fermento questi mesi (tra gli altri Clojure , Go , Erlang , Haskell ). Ci si rivolge a programmatori esperti che hanno già maturato una certa esperienza, probabilmente per questo motivo sono esclusi alcuni grandi classici ..
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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When you lose someone you love, Your life becomes strange, The ground beneath you becomes fragile, Your thoughts make your eyes unsure; And some dead echo drags your voice down Where words have no confidence Your heart has grown heavy with loss; And though this loss has wounded others too, No one knows what has been taken from you When the silence of absence deepens. Flickers of guilt kindle regret For all that was lef..
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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After doing this two years I figured I needed to continue my tradition. If you want to see how right or wrong I
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This year instead of bothering with making a big deal of Christmas, getting presents, etc, C and I decided to just go out and have a nice meal. A couple of weeks ago my recruiter held a lunch at the Atrium in Burswood and it was excellent, so I thought we could go to the same place for dinner.
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