This is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. Open up a supported terminal and run: telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu » Kevin Lange | miku.acm.uiuc.edu

If you want to learn a thing or two about color, why not look to the true masters whose artistic work has stood the test of time? Great painters almost always possess a keen understanding of color that is truly impressive when you stop to appreciate it. » Joshua Johnson | designshack.net

Si necesitamos analizar el tráfico de red de nuestro Android, ya sea para depurar una aplicación o para ver qué uso de la red hacen las aplicaciones instaladas en el terminal, podemos recurrir a herramientas bien conocidas como tcpdump, netcat y Wireshark. Antes de empezar Antes de continuar, deberemos tener instaladas las herramientas de desarrollo para Android. Descargamos el paquete y lo descomprimimos: $ wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r20.0.3-linux.tgz $ tar xvzf android-sdk_r20.0.3-linux.tgz Añadimos los directorios tools y platform-tools al PATH. Ejecutamos las siguientes líneas, y las añadimos también en el fichero ~/.bashrc, para incluirlas en el PATH del sistema: ...

The world of game theory is currently on fire. In May, Freeman Dyson at Princeton University and William Press at the University of Texas announced that they had discovered a previously unknown strategy for the game of prisoner’s dilemma which guarantees one player a better outcome than the other. That’s a monumental surprise. Theorists have studied Prisoner’s Dilemma for decades, using it as a model for the emergence of co-operation in nature. This work has had a profound impact on disciplines such as economics, evolutionary biology and, of course, game theory itself. The new result will have impact in all these areas and more. ...

El pasado martes, Mercadona retiró 11 productos cosméticos después de una evaluación realizada por la Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios. Ayer, esa misma agencia publicó un comunicado explicando que el problema era de orden administrativo y no existía ningún peligro para la salud de los consumidores. Me parece un buen momento para que hablemos del verdadero problema de fondo. La industria cosmética se sostiene sobre una mentira: hacer creer a sus clientes que la eficacia de sus productos tiene una base científica. ...

Fellow Linuxers, This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I’m calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn’t simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I’m still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent sources for everything), and I’d like to get some feedback before I add the ”fancy” stuff. ...

I run FreeBSD on my computers. A lot of my friends run Linux, or at least one of the distributions of it. Naturally, then, we agree that a Unix-style operating system is the right choice, but we disagree on which to use. It’s been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that’s not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don’t really understand how and why it’s put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb. ...

A compilation of classic arcade deaths, arranged to an 8-bit cover of ”Mad World”. The music is a cover of Mad World, by Tears for Fears. » Rob Beschizza | boingboing.net

Much of this data was entered by hand (obtained by contacting past conference organizers, retrieving cached conference websites, and searching CVs) so please email me if you notice any errors or omissions: bestpaper-AT-jeffhuang.com. I tried to collect best paper awards from the top-tier conferences in each area, but some conferences do not have such an award (e.g. SIGGRAPH, CAV). ”Distinguished paper award” and ”outstanding paper award” are included but not ”best student paper” (e.g. NIPS) or ”best 10-year old paper” (e.g. POPL) ...

When developers shift from PHP, Ruby or any other platform to Python, the very first road block they face (most often) is a lack of an overall understanding of the Python ecosystem. Developers often yearn for a tutorial or resource that explains how to accomplish most tasks in a more or less standard way. What follows is an extract from the internal wiki at my workplace, which documents the basics of the Python ecosystem for web application development for our interns, trainees and experienced developers who shift to Python from other platforms. ...