piano compaction
#artinstinctive
microblogs
#itnuts
a python library for parsing rss feeds: feedparser
Initially developed by Mark Pilgrim, whose book about HTML5 I read when HTML5 was a big hype.
Another interesting fact, Aaron Swartz contributed to this library.
Last but not least, the library is still under active development today!
A museum of conceptual web art
#interrobang
Type intersection in Python is still an open discussion
#itnuts
Live chart of carbon compensation purchased
Lung cancer pill. Reduces risks when taken after surgery.
#scitisfaction
www.theguardian.com/science/2…
After five years, 88% of patients who took the daily pill after the removal of their tumour were still alive, compared with 78% of patients treated with a placebo.
from HN:
This is a drug that targets lung cancer (~12% of cancers) and only one type of lung cancer (non-small cell lung cancer, ~80% of cases). It targets a particular mutated gene that occurs in about 30% of that subtype. And then, about 50% of those patients respond.
Now I know who was behind all the best quests of my childhood!!
#artinstinctive
Ron Gilbert programmed Freddy Fish and Putt-Putt, worked at Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts).
I missed the Monkey Island series, incl. the Mokey Island 2 in which Ron participated as a director, designer and a writer.
System76 firmware managed to disable Intel ME
#itnuts HN
history behind Intel ME from Google engineers: www.zdnet.com/article/m…