Bookmark this for the next time you do a OS X reinstall. Seriously. It’s amazing.
If you don’t want to play a giant robot that transforms into a space T-rex that breathes fire out of your mouth, I don’t want to know you.
High Moon’s Matt Tieger on saving the Dinobots.
(via polygondotcom)
Google Drive finally launched today. Looks compelling, and the price structure blows Dropbox out of the water. The Verge did a great comparison breakdown against all the most popular cloud storage services right now.
I’ll go for the Paul Giamatti, but I’ll stay for RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF RATS.
Windows 8 consumer preview usage …
Windows 8 consumer preview usage more than twice Windows 7 beta at the same point in time. Millions of people using everyday.#thankyou
— Building Windows 8 (@BuildWindows8) April 20, 2012
Now by usage, do you mean “daily driver” or “downloaded it and threw it in a VM?” I highly doubt the former, but I took part in the latter. Not my cup of tea, but I could see it being a compelling tablet operating system for those who like Metro.
(Source: theverge.com)
Some good (and important) points laid out here. Over at Ushahidi we’ve been making the transition to Rackspace ourselves over the last few months, and while it has largely been a pleasurable experience there are some quirks to the service.
I still find it really bizarre that you can’t pause/stop and instance.
“Lua’s characteristics make it a perfect candidate for implementing ideas that have been simmering in the pipeline for several years. Lua scripts are portable and easy to make secure. The concept of “sandboxes” plays a central role here.
Thus, a Lua OS has great potential for being a secure, transparent and easy-to-manage computing platform. So, how do we make such a system?”
Valve, continuing to impress the heck out of me since 1996.(tm)
“The Tau Manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant captures the geometry of the circle in a single number. Of course, the traditional choice for the circle constant is π—but, as mathematician Bob Palais notes in his delightful article “π Is Wrong!”1, π is wrong. It’s time to set things right.”
“… we built Fake S3 to make working with S3 in development and testing environments much easier. Our goal was to make a self contained executable that can mimic the majority of S3 Rest API with few external dependencies.”
