Ben Plowman

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atelierevzimus:

gifsboom:

Polar bears smash the spy cams. [video]

[BBC]

archivemodernarchitecture:

Coin Museum (Sina Bank),Tehran, Iran, 2015. © Nicolas Grospierre

heyyyy i used to walk past this allll the time

franksantoro:

bassdrumofjedd:

I’d pay anyone to revive this soda just so i can keep the can art

Bill Boichel tried to keep a case of it - but by ‘97 the cans had rusted out - he said he should’ve emptied them but thought they’d keep -FS

ultrafacts:

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kingjaffejoffer:

In downtown SF right now there are cops with assault rifles on every corner. They’re on ATVs and jeeps rolling deep as fuck. The bomb sniffing dogs, swat teams, giant armored looking vehicles etc. 

They have big signs everywhere informing people that they are under surveillance. 

Its weird. 

(this pic might post again later because the tumblr app is dumb)

qkaboo:

krabbydon:

readysteadytrek:

That is the plot of like 75% of TNG episodes I swear.

i was so prepared for image 2 to be “I’m at the taco bell”

Ah code golf, pastime of our navelgazing alter egos. Being designed for readability and maintainability, Python doesn't always show well in this sort of sport, but occasionally we get thrown a bone. For instance, for nonzero even numbers less than 10:

>>> [x for x in range(10) if x and not x % 2]
[2, 4, 6, 8]

is equivalent to

>>> [x for x in range(10) if x if not x % 2]
[2, 4, 6, 8]

A whole character saved! Yes, a close reading of PEP 202 will show that one of the canonical examples of list comprehensions uses this pattern for... some reason.

Either way, now you know. Sally forth and do what must be done with all code golf tricks: Never, Ever Use Them For Production Code.

-- Mahmoud
http://sedimental.org/
https://github.com/mahmoud
https://twitter.com/mhashemi

Really disliking the design and behavior regressions of this Android lollipop “upgrade”.

New Featured Wikipedia Article: South Park: The Stick of Truth http://ift.tt/1QJYzTj

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slimetony:

I just love how this is worded im just imagining a Hungarian dude walking around London in the 30s with a screwdriver and scrap metal just putting together a nuclear bomb on his morning commute

basically the same animal really

This made me uncomfortable, but I still think you all need to see it.

ultrafacts:

The “=” symbol that is now universally accepted in mathematics for equality was first recorded by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde

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the decimal point wasn’t invented until around the same time as calculus

Posted by Lily Sheringham, Google Play team

Headquartered in Singapore, Wego is a popular online travel marketplace for flights and hotels for users in South East Asia and the Middle East. They launched their Android app in early 2014, and today, more than 62 percent of Wego app users are on Android. Wego recently redesigned their app using material design principles to provide their users a more native Android experience for consistency and easier navigation.

Watch Ross Veitch, co-founder and CEO, and the Wego team talk about how they increased monthly user retention by 300 percent and reduced uninstall rates by up to 25 percent with material design.

Learn more about material design, how to use Android Studio, and how to find success on Google Play with the new guide ‘Secrets to App Success on Google Play.’

but-u-didcreateme-n-surviveidid:

youknowiaintshit:

no sound :-(

I watched this 30 times

mapsontheweb:

Average gas prices per gallon in the US, Jan 2016.

Related: Prices one year ago

Interactive map >>

so far people i’ve pointed this out to seem to actively reject the possibility that there are any notable reasons why this is happening

mapsontheweb:

What do you call a bread that can be split in half and filled with cheese and ham (or with chips in the North) etc.?

More word maps >>

Halfaker, Geiger, Morgan, and Riedl have a new paper on this topic (pdf), here is the abstract:

Open collaboration systems like Wikipedia need to maintain a pool of volunteer contributors in order to remain relevant. Wikipedia was created through a tremendous number of contributions by millions of contributors. However, recent research has shown that the number of active contributors in Wikipedia has been declining steadily for years, and suggests that a sharp decline in the retention of newcomers is the cause. This paper presents data that show that several changes the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have ironically crippled the very growth they were designed to manage. Specifically, the restrictiveness of the encyclopedia’s primary quality control mechanism and the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions are implicated as key causes of decreased newcomer retention. Further, the community’s formal mechanisms for norm articulation are shown to have calcified against changes – especially changes proposed by newer editors.

This is an interesting paper, but I think it undervalues the hypothesis that potential contributors simply prefer to be in on things which are both new and cool.  Wikipedia, which is no longer new, cannot be so cool.  That is why Beethoven’s 5th does not top the pop charts, though if it were new it might.

For the pointer I thank David Siegel.

serval with melanism

citationneeded:

Souplantation

Link

can’t quite parse this

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