June 2009
6 posts
"Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from...
alibosworth:
“[Chris Anderson] said that while he believed Wikipedia was a valid source for books, he and his publisher had not been able to agree on a format for citations. … He said he originally wrote the sections using the material from Wikipedia in quotations, and had hoped to cite them using footnotes.”
Instead he just left out the quote marks and footnotes altogether? What the fuck,...
it's that time again
i had one of those dreams last night where i didn’t know if it actually happened or not, so i was excited about it this morning until i checked the news. it turns out that they didn’t invent a new kind of kalman filter. this is what i dream about.
trade in a beater car for a really nice bike →
coffee
i had big plans to buy a coffee grinder and a substantial french press, but not anymore. i get terrible headaches and nausea every couple weeks or so and i don’t know if it’s coffee related but i’m willing to try anything at this point. the only thing that helps is sleeping and often it’s too painful to fall asleep. i used to get headaches as a little kid, but they went...
Automatically Wrapping Libraries In Python (work...
Introduction
I spend a lot of my time at work writing code in Python and using external libraries. ctypes is the built in method of accessing foreign functions and it works wonderfully. I’ve even used their C datatypes to emulate integer overflow for a platform specific checksum. However, there is no built in support for consuming an API. It’s possible to do it yourself, but some...