July 2010
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Online news - with or without humans?
theluckystrike:
Sarah Chapman: “Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor…”
The New York Times reported yesterday that Yahoo is to invert the traditional news model, in which editors decide what gets covered, by using popular search terms to guide their reporting on national affairs, politics and the media.
And as Yahoo! move away from the traditional editorial news...
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geek fix : cron locale breaking subversion client
Working on an automatic subversion cron script that called svn to run some basic add / delete / commit functions and I ran into the standard error when running from cron but not from the command line with bash:
Can’t convert string from native encoding to ‘UTF-8’
The problem is documented way back in 2006 here.
It’s due to two things : how svn uses locales and...
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listentothebit:
Tetris - 1984 - Hirokazu...
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Welcome (back)
theluckystrike:
…And so, I’ve decided to relaunch the blog. Tumblr makes it easier for me to post and manage things that inspire me from across the web (on a daily basis)
Stay tuned and say hello!
Rakim: Guess Who’s Back
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