I’m not ashamed to like this song.
Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil
For (psychologist) Baron-Cohen, science provides a more satisfactory explanation for evil and that explanation is empathy – or rather, lack of empathy.
“Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling, and to respond to their thoughts and feelings with an appropriate emotion,” writes Baron-Cohen. People who lack empathy see others as mere objects.
Facebook Blocker: A Browser Extension To Block Facebook From Other Sites
This browser extension stops Facebook social plugins—including those within iFrames—from running on sites other than Facebook itself. This includes ‘Like’ buttons, ‘Recommended’ lists, and should also stop any Facebook scripts from tracking your browsing history.
An intense Taekwondo battle.
From “Distant Relatives”, a collaborative studio album by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley.
How Facebook Ships Code
[Facebook is a] very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.” is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime.
Crystal Quest: A Great Old-School Game
Crystal Quest is an action computer game for the Apple Macintosh and Apple IIgs. It was written by Patrick Buckland for Casady & Greene in 1987, and was ported to the IIgs in 1989 by Bill Heineman. Ports were also made to the Amiga, Nintendo Game Boy, iPhone OS, and Palm. It was notable both for its fast-paced gameplay and for being the first game to support the color displays on the Macintosh II.
A New App Engine Datastore API By Guido van Rossum
Over the past months I’ve been working on a new design for the Python datastore API, under the code name Datastore Plus. The new design is very ambitious, and changes a lot of things…
Hong Kong Architecture Photographyby the German-born photographer Michael Wolf. He ducuments the extreme densities of Hong Kong.
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A preview of Android 3.0, which is “exclusively” for tablet computers.
(Source: Engadget)
Turn Vim into Powerful JavaScript Editor
After trying NetBeans, AptanaStudio, Emacs, KomodoEdit, and Jedit, I’ve finally settled on Vim (again) for my JavaScript/HTML/CSS editing needs. AptanaStudio is ok by default, but extending it wasn’t very fun. NetBeans simply doesn’t do what I need. KomodoEdit has no code re-indentation (code formatting) feature which is a big fail in my opinion. Jedit was just ugly, and the default feature set left a lot to be desired. There are tons of plugins for it, but I just didn’t have the time to try them all out.
Vim doesn’t have too many features related to editing JavaScript code out of the box. Indentation is horrendous, error-checking is non-existent, and it’s generally a pain in the arse. However, Vim is very extensible, and with a few cool plugins, you can turn it into a powerful JavaScript editor within a few minutes (plus the time you waste reading this post, of course). Here’s a list of plugins that transform Vim into one of the coolest JavaScript editors i’ve used.
