Roberto De Almeida

My concept for the .data domain is to use it to create the “data web”—in a sense a parallel construct to the ordinary web, but oriented toward structured data intended for computational use. The notion is that alongside a website like wolfram.com, there’d be wolfram.data.

If a human went to wolfram.data, there’d be a structured summary of what data the organization behind it wanted to expose. And if a computational system went there, it’d find just what it needs to ingest the data, and begin computing with it.

It doesn't have to be a TLD, but it would surely be cool.

you may want to do all your I/O operations in one single process (or thread) and communicate the results via sockets, Queue objects (in case of using threads) or whatever, with the client process/thread.

I'm just writing this here as a bookmark. I have a problem where I have a WSGI app that needs to read and write to an HDF5 file (which is not thread safe). I implemented a writers-preference many-readers/one-writer lock, but now I want to perhaps delete the file from another process, and this is getting too complicated.

I considered using Redis as a decentralized lock system, but for the readers-writer it's far from trivial.

I'm glad to share a new project called Python for Android. The goal of this project is to package your python application into an APK.

The Top 100 Reasons Not to Have Kids (and Remain Childfree)

1. You will be happier and less likely to suffer from depression.
2. (Assuming you get married), you will have a happier marriage.
3. You will have the capacity and time for meaningful, engaged, quality adult relationships.
4. You will be able to save for a comfortable retirement.
5. You are more likely to be an engaged and involved aunt or uncle because you are not jaded and worn down by your own kids.

I just discovered http://www.reddit.com/r/childfree... it's good to find more people that think like me, instead of hearing all the time "ah, one day you'll change your mind for sure".

Me espalmei contra a porta como uma lagartixa e fiquei apreciando Amanda, registrando cada poro, cada pestana, sentindo ainda o aroma cítrico do seu sabonete de limão, embalado pelo som frustrado da chave na fechadura, chorando lágrimas secas.

Alex, num dos seus melhores contos.

Visual effects artist Karl Stiefvater takes us through the tools he used to build a 3D model of his home (SketchUp and its handy “Photo Match” function), apply the photo textures (Maya), and produce the X3D file Shapeways requires for full-color 3D printing (MeshLab). He also covers such useful, decidedly non-virtual details as how to seal the model to prevent the color from bleeding, how to treat the water to prevent algal growth, and how to assemble the snowglobe kit itself.

Pretty cool.

Muito boa a tirinha... :)