Migrating a Server to Your Linode – Linode Library -
You can migrate an existing server to your Linode from another hosting provider or a local machine. This is a great option if you’re moving to Linode from another hosting provider or if you’ve built a custom server on your local machine. You can even migrate virtualized servers created with products like VirtualBox or VMware. This guide shows you how to prepare the Linode to receive the files, copy the files from the existing server to the Linode, and then make the disk images bootable.
Pry - an IRB alternative and runtime developer console -
Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby. It features syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation and source and documentation browsing.
Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention | Fast Company -
Remember the name, because you might see it again: Aisha Mustafa, a 19-year-old Egyptian physics student, patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that uses cutting edge quantum physics instead of thrusters.
Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV | Smartjava.org -
Through HTML5 and the corresponding standards, modern browsers get more standarized features with every release. Most people have heard of websockets that allows you to easily setup a two way communication channel with a server, but one of the specifications that hasn’t been getting much coverage is the webrtc specificiation.
Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit -
Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
Wired.com: So what have you learned so far?
Musk: Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
Elon Musk's determination by Dustin Curtis -
Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
10 tips for moving from programmer to entrepreneur :: Ian Landsman -
Your product has to be nicely designed. Standard programmer square boxes with gray backgrounds don’t cut it! Remember though that your design only needs to be nicer than the competition. So if you’re building a back office IT system there’s no need to bring your design all the way up to the level of a 37 Signals type app. Of course it’s great if you do, but the goal here is simply to make it clear for your customers that you have the nicer design when they compare your product to the competition. People DO judge books by their covers.
objective c - Disable Automatic Reference Counting for Some Files - Stack Overflow -
I have downloaded the iOS 5 SDK and found that ARC is a great feature of the new Apple compiler. For the time being, many third party frameworks don’t support ARC. Could I use ARC for my new code and keep the current retain/release code unchanged? The ARC converter doesn’t work here, because some frameworks, such as JSONKit, cannot be converted to ARC by using the converter.
Safer event handling with jQuery namespaced events | 456 Berea Street -
You’ve heard it many times before: make sure your JavaScript plays nice with other code, especially if you package it up as a plugin and share with other developers. Perhaps the most obvious thing to think about is global variables, which you want to avoid creating since they can easily clash with other global variables.
How We Measure the Universe, Animated | Brain Pickings -
Somewhere between Fibonacci’s invention of arithmetic, which changed the world of numbers as we know it, and scientists’ ambitious visualizations of the scale of the universe lies a daunting fundamental question: How do we actually use these numbers to measure the universe? That’s precisely what the Royal Observatory Greenwich answers in this wonderful short animation, a teaser for a new exhibition titled Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos.
'Artificial leaf' hits development hurdle : Nature News & Comment -
Not all prototypes make it out of the laboratory, but the ‘artificial leaf’ is so elegant that its design seems to beg for commercial production. Described in Science last year1 by a team led by Dan Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the catalyst-coated wafer is a silicon version of a photosynthesizing leaf: it turns sunlight into storable fuel by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Germany sets new solar power record, institute says | Reuters -
Some critics say renewable energy is not reliable enough nor is there enough capacity to power major industrial nations. But Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany is eager to demonstrate that is indeed possible.
Environmental catastrophes, overpopulation, war and other crises have made humanity painfully aware of the limitations on its home planet.* Many now believe that exploring and settling space could be a way to alleviate some of Earth’s immediate problems. As a result of this, spaceflight has advanced considerably since the beginning of the century. National governments are able to participate to a certain extent, but huge levels of debt and economic stagnation have left the bulk of the effort to private enterprises and wealthy individuals.