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January 2014

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Urban Dictionary: Riker's Beard

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Riker%27s%20Beard
The opposite of jump the shark, i.e. when a TV show goes from unspectacular/boring/outlandish to completely awesome. It references Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was unspectacular until season 2, when Commander Riker grew a beard. The show kicked ass from then on.
#beards #imported:pinboard #riker #startrek
archive.org #32021

Urban Dictionary: Riker's Beard

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Riker%27s+Beard
The opposite of jump the shark, i.e. when a TV show goes from unspectacular/boring/outlandish to completely awesome. It references Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was unspectacular until season 2, when Commander Riker grew a beard. The show kicked ass from then on.
#beards #riker #startrek
archive.org #24522

My last word on DRM | Studio Tendra

http://studiotendra.com/2014/01/27/my-last-word-on-drm/
It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.
#books #drm #imported:pinboard #publishers #reading
archive.org #32023

My last word on DRM | Studio Tendra

http://studiotendra.com/2014/01/27/my-last-word-on-drm
It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.
#books #drm #publishers #reading
archive.org #24513

Gamasutra: Carsten Germer's Blog - "Not So Random Randomness" in Game Design and Programming

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CarstenGermer/20131118/204997/quotNot_So_Random_Randomnessquot_in_Game_Design_and_Programming.php
As production of "Pavel Piezo - Trip to the Kite Festival" draws to a close later this year I reviewed the material I collected for the Postmortem and found it too much and too diverse to put in one huge article. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24504

enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself

http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself/#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
#apple #california #facebook #google #imported:pinboard #sanfrancisco #tech #to:fb #twitter
archive.org #32031

Veterans Day 2013: Technology demands we bring back the draft.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/11/veterans_day_2013_technology_demands_we_bring_back_the_draft.html
One of the most significant contributions to a reduction of domestic social tension in the United States as the Vietnam conflict wore down was the ending of the draft in 1973. (The Selective Service system, which is the administrative backbone of the draft, remains active. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24493

HoRNDIS: USB tethering driver for Mac OS X | Joshua Wise's domain

http://joshuawise.com/horndis
HoRNDIS (pronounce: “horrendous”) is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access. It is known to work with Mac OS X versions 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) through 10.9 (Mavericks – see notes below), and has been tested on a wide variety of phones. Although you should be careful with all drivers that you install on your computer, HoRNDIS has been tested at least well enough for the author (and many others) to run full time on their own personal computers.
#android #imported:pinboard #networking #osx #tethering #usb
archive.org #24475

Beyond pushState — building single page applications — Joys of JavaScript — Medium

https://medium.com/joys-of-javascript/4353246f4480
Single page applications are on the rise, and in many cases they make the web faster, richer, and more interactive. The HTML5 history APIs have allowed us take advantage of the benefits of SPAs while still allowing pages to be deep linkable, server renderable, and easily shareable. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24469

OCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten – Blog

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten/
The idea of the extension was kind of simple and also kind of magical: a browser extension that allowed users to highlight, copy, and paste text from any image as if it were plain text. Of course the implementation is a bit difficult and actually relies on the advent of a number of newfangled technologies.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #ocr #webdev
archive.org #32049

OCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten – Blog

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten
The idea of the extension was kind of simple and also kind of magical: a browser extension that allowed users to highlight, copy, and paste text from any image as if it were plain text. Of course the implementation is a bit difficult and actually relies on the advent of a number of newfangled technologies.
#javascript #ocr #webdev
archive.org #24455