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The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
30 March 2012Planet Mozilla
Perhaps someone who knows more about the internals of python and the recent changes in 2.6 and 2.7 can explain this question that came up today in a code review. I suggest using with instead of try: ... finally: to close a file that was written to.…
27 March 2012Planet Mozilla
We have a piece of code that is going to be run A LOT on a server infrastructure that needs to be fast. I know that I/O is much more important but because I had the time I wanted to figure out which is fastest: def a(s, m): if len(s) > m: s =…
27 March 2012Planet Mozilla
BrowserID is a new single sign-on initiative lead by Mozilla that takes a very refreshing approach to single sign-on. It's basically like OpenID except better and similar to the OAuth solutions from Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc but without being tied to…
27 March 2012Planet Mozilla
When using mutables in Python you have to be careful: >>> a = {'value': 1} >>> b = a >>> a['value'] = 2 >>> b {'value': 2} So, you use the copy module from the standard library: >>> import copy >>> a = {'value': 1} >>> b = copy.copy(a) >>> a['value'] =…
27 March 2012Macworld
Learn how to make basic edits to your photos using iPhoto for iOS.
26 March 2012Planet Mozilla
26 March 2012Planet Ubuntu
It is always fascinating when two brilliant minds meet... Steve Jobs had managed to get Donald Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of Computer Science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books,…
26 March 2012LWN.net
The H has posted a look at the OpenBTS and OpenBSC projects. "The next stroke of genius came in [OpenBTS's] approach to engineering the air interface. In a proprietary base transceiver station (BTS) this would typically be done via a heady mix of analogue…
26 March 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filmmakers Josh Apter and Peter Olsen like to tackle new technology as soon as they can get their hands on it -- but they don't really have a choice in the matter. As the proprietor of NYC's Manhattan Edit Workshop, Josh is obligated to get ahead of the…
25 March 2012