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<p>Gay Fish from South Park Season 13.</p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AAxailJPU5Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AAxailJPU5Q"></param> </object> </p>

<p>Learning how to design is indeed very difficult, at least for me.</p> <p>This QA contains lots of recommended books to read if you want to be better at user experience in general.</p>

<h4>Title: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)</h4> <p>By: Shakira</p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/pRpeEdMmmQ0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pRpeEdMmmQ0"></param> </object> </p> <h4>The Kick Off Concert</h4> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/oRDgVGHB6eM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oRDgVGHB6eM"></param> </object> </p> <p>The 2010 World Cup winner is Spain (1-0 vs Netherlands). Andres Iniesta scored the only goal during the 2nd half of overtime.</p> <p>Arjen Robben could have stolen the Cup, had he scored during 1-1 against Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas.</p> <p>Regardless, congratulations Spain for winning 2010 World Cup.</p>

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Complete list of CSS rules and its compatibility

<p>Quick introduction, <a href="http://pylonshq.com/" target="_blank">Pylons</a> is a Python web framework that favors flexibility and customization.</p> <p><a href="http://github.com/facebook/tornado" target="_blank">Tornado</a> is also a web framework (minimal), open sourced by the guys from FriendFeed (they ended up getting bought by Facebook). It comes with asynchronous web server and WSGI server.</p> <h3>Prerequisites</h3> <pre><code> easy_install pylons easy_install tornado </code></pre> <h3>Getting Started</h3> <p>The harder way to use tornado is through PasteScript. We tried, but was not successful. The easier way is to instantiate PylonsApp object via make_app() on middleware.py</p> <pre><code> from paste.deploy import appconfig from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop from your_app.config.middleware import make_app port = 5000 config = appconfig("config:%s" % "/your/app/development.ini") app = make_app(config.global_conf, **config.local_conf) # Start the tornado IO loop http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app)) http_server.listen(port) IOLoop.instance().start() </code></pre> <p>That's pretty much it. Get the <a href="http://gist.github.com/468976" target="_blank">gist</a>.</p> <p>One caveat:</p> <ul> <li>When using Tornado, you cannot set <em>debug</em> flag to True.</li> </ul> <h3>The basic architecture of Socialinks and how Tornado affect performance</h3> <p>Here at <a href="../../../recent/">Socialinks</a>, our setup is pretty typical. 4 <a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WSGI" target="_blank">CherryPy</a> WSGI servers fronted by Nginx. We replaced those 4 CherryPy with 4 Tornado WSGI servers.</p> <p>Our caching scheme is quite simple, logged-in vs non-logged-in.Most of non logged in pages are cached using memcache, we cache very minimally on logged in pages. Thus, we are not expecting much performance benefit on typical read-only scenario.</p> <p>But:</p> <ul> <li>Our <em>GET /recent/</em> request time went from 500ms+ to 450ms+ average.</li> <li>Each CherryPy instance used to consume between 45mb - 95mb of RAM. In comparison, 1 Tornado server hasn't even exceed 50mb of RAM yet.</li> <li>Overall, the site felt unscientifically faster.</li> </ul> <p>We were pleasantly surprised.</p>

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<p>Calculating machines have been with us for a very long time. Various mechanical calculators have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing" target="_blank">recorded in history</a> as early as 13th century. Back then, a computer was a person whose job is to compute numbers.</p> <p>The computer we know and familiar with was first conceived by Charles Babbage with his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine" target="_blank">Analytical Engine</a>.</p> <p>This post is a compilation of various documentaries about Computer. Enjoy!</p> <h4>Modern Marvel - Creation of the Computer</h4> <p> <object id="VideoPlayback" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" width="100" height="100" data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7242608336050311633&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7242608336050311633&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true"></param> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param> </object> </p> <h4>Modern Marvel - Computers</h4> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/DeuJwKvzgWM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DeuJwKvzgWM"></param> </object> </p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/wMeY2bBshCI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wMeY2bBshCI"></param> </object> </p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/wO7a-yOZ7sk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wO7a-yOZ7sk"></param> </object> </p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/MayEF0cAxTU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MayEF0cAxTU"></param> </object> </p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3jhfViHSEI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3jhfViHSEI"></param> </object> </p> <h4>Computer Pioneers and Pioneer Computer</h4> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/qundvme1Tik" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qundvme1Tik"></param> </object> </p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/wsirYCAocZk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wsirYCAocZk"></param> </object> </p> <p>As final treat, below is a footage of Google's first production server. Donated to Computer History Museum.</p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/z19-6tvGSq4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z19-6tvGSq4"></param> </object> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>To find out more about the history of computers, you should visit <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/" target="_blank">Computer History Museum</a> at San Jose, CA.</p>

<p>Because of Apple's highly regarded secrecy, it is rare to find documentary video on how Apple products are manufactured.</p> <p>The following videos show us how classic Macintosh were built (using other Macintosh, of course.)</p> <p> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/KUjyh2Fhnuk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KUjyh2Fhnuk"></param> </object> <object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/k1nG2Uo5avM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k1nG2Uo5avM"></param> </object> </p>

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