VirtualTam's bookmarks

  1. OpenWorm 2017-02-07

    "OpenWorm is an open source project and open science community dedicated to creating the world's first whole organism in a computer, a C. elegans nematode, via bottom-up "systems biology" computational modeling. It is an association of highly motivated scientists, engineers, coders, and curious citizens from around the world who believe in open science and open access."

  2. "Real men don't invert a MIDI file, they invert the score, learn it, and play it on an actual keyboard"

    1. Understand user needs
    2. Do ongoing user research
    3. Have a multidisciplinary team
    4. Use agile methods
    5. Iterate and improve frequently
    6. Evaluate tools and systems
    7. Understand security and privacy issues
    8. Make all new source code open
    9. Use open standards and common platforms
    10. Test the end-to-end service
    11. Make a plan for being offline
    12. Make sure users succeed first time
    13. Make the user experience consistent with GOV.UK
    14. Encourage everyone to use the digital service
    15. Collect performance data
    16. Identify performance indicators
    17. Report performance data on the Performance Platform
    18. Test with the minister
  3. (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

  4. DSO's first album is available, CC-BY-SA :)

  5. First era Meshuggah (who said "Metallikkah"?)

  6.  1# first, clone the repository
     2git clone REPO REPO2
     3cd REPO2
     4# remove all unneeded files from this version
     5git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch FILES_AND_DIRS_TO_DELETE"
     6git gc --aggressive --prune=1day
     7git fsck --unreachable
     8# refresh the remote
     9git remote rm origin
    10git remote add origin ssh://HOST/REPO
    11# broforce push!
    12git push -f origin master
    13
    14# cleanup our original repository
    15cd REPO
    16git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch OTHER_FILES_AND_DIRS_TO_DELETE"
    17git gc --aggressive --prune=1day
    18git fsck --unreachable
    19# broforce push!
    20git push -f origin master
    
  7. “Dead Cyborg” is a first person view sci-fi adventure game. The story is about the meaning of life... and death... in a rusty post-apocalyptic metal and concrete world.