Amund Tveit

cinpy is a tool where you can write C code in your Python code (with the help of ctypes - included in modern Python versions). When you execute your python program the C code is compiled on the fly using Tiny C Compiler (TCC). In this posting I will describe: 1) installation and testing cinpy, 2) a simple benchmark (c-in-py vs python), 3) compare performance with gcc (c-in-py vs gcc), 4) measure cinpy (on-the-fly) compilation time, 5) how to dynamically change cinpy methods - Amund Tveit

Hopefully other large countries will follow. - Olivier Tharan

Amazon added a nifty feature in their new iPhone app. Snap a photo of a product and it will find it on the site. - Steve Rubel via mail2ff

Wow - great idea - rogersdc (Chris)

what's great about their app is that the actual search is done by humans! http://tinyurl.com/5zwenb - Florian

"Designing and developing user interfaces for Android is very different from doing so in a regular desktop environment. Because Android runs applications on mobile devices, application designers and developers must deal with numerous constraints that are not always obvious. To help you design and develop better applications, we are publishing a new series of posts focusing on Android user interfaces." -Romain Guy - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

"It reminded me «Saw II» cover" (i.e. http://b23.ru/7ft) - ProRunner

@prorunner - Ahh, that makes a lot more sense now. Thanks! - DeWitt Clinton

"2) We believe that environments like this tend to sort out the true entrepreneurs from the pretenders. When money is easy in Silicon Valley, it tends to attract short-term opportunists looking to make a fast-buck rather than build a lasting company. Only the best entrepreneurs set sail in rough seas like this. 3) We like the probability for startups (especially Series A deals) in this environment. Consider that people are easier to hire and rent is cheap. Incumbents are cutting their R&D budgets, and there will be fewer startups in each space, all of which means less competition. These are good things." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Point #3 is esp. true in a downturn like this - better engineers are available - Dave Hodson

#2 seems it could describe some vc firms .. but this is not now a time for only making a better system, this is actually about the complete transformation of intention and motivation ... so, the sorting out will continue - Gregory Lent

"Big ideas often demand a marketing strategy that is a lot more difficult than marketing gravity. Sometimes results do take a long time. Sometimes the consumer has been wrong all along. Sometimes you do need to replace an existing story. I hope you will. But this takes time and patience and resources. When in doubt, market gravity." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

stats: ~1500 reads, 100+ bookmarks after a couple of days (makes me almost wonder why i wrote academic papers that few read) - Amund Tveit

same problem for me. - Amund Tveit

I can get in - Abigail (Hε₫§εhσ§ ĺﺃβ)

The Amazon EC2 cloud computing model introduces new classes of security concerns as you look to deploying web applications into the cloud. These twenty rules for Amazon Cloud security will help you protect the integrity of your cloud deployments from many different kinds of security threats. - Canyon R

Pamela shows an easy way to geocode (resolve an address to a lat/long) a list of places using Google Spreadsheets. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

"Since power and infrastructure costs continue to rise while the cost of servers measured in work done per $ continues to fall, it actually is correct to say that the fully burdened cost of power does, or soon will, dominate all other data center costs." -James Hamilton - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

I think it's weird that people think Web 2.0 isn't for scientists, considering the early adopters of the Internet (USENET in particular) were university students and faculty with a heavy bias to compsci and hard sciences, and scientists at research organisations. - Richard Akerman

The social web is like everything else - if some application of it is useful to enough people, it will "work" by definition. Online bookmarking/sharing services being one case in point. - Maxine

Of course social networking for scientists works, they have been doing exactly that for decades at conferences and other occasions. Problem is that people are so damn focused on technology that they forget what really matters: workflows and user experience. Hint: throwing the next thing together that is just a slight variant/copy of facebook is not the solution. - Alexander Griekspoor

Beginning to get some serious traction. - Sean McBride

I want a kindle so bad! (....kinda) - Mohomed=genieyclo

killa. - Mohomed=genieyclo

Is this anything more than putting Darwin on an ugly box? - Simon Lucy

Hmm, complete with fans louder than hairdryers and jumbo jets (from what I've heard about it)? I'll take two! ;) - Tyson Key

A simple micro web service to indent JSON strings. That's all. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Nice idea Gary. - Benjamin Golub

http://json-indent.appspot.com... and my blog: http://json-indent.appspot.com... - Benjamin Golub

"We've just posted Processing 1.0 at http://processing.org/download. We're so excited about it, we even took time to write a press release" - Deepak via Bookmarklet

"Margay is the only cat that has ability to rotate its hind legs 180 degrees, enabling it to run head first down trees very fast. It can also hang from a branch by one hind foot! The Margay is on the endangered animals list, but no one really knows how large their population really is between Mexico and Argentina." - Alejandro S. via Bookmarklet

Wow, today is full of cats on FriendFeed... - Tyson Key

Roar! - Tyson Key

Check out the related stories as well... - Frode Lundgren

YouTube video was absolutely awesome. It had put more human face on Elsevier than anything I've seen so far :). - Pawel Szczesny

I think it's been discussed on FF before (or I could go and read the contest rules) but by submitting an entry are you giving Elsevier a non-exclusive license or an exclusive one? If it's the former then the technology you come up could possibly get rolled out by other publishers - inc. OA ones - who use the same industry standard (sort of, eventually) backend. I think it's an interesting way to try out new ideas, anyway. - Euan

@Euan: "#1 All participants retain ownership of any software they develop or any other intellectual property rights they create; these will not be used by Elsevier unless there is explicit agreement with the participants regarding this use (see point 6) [...] #6 Elsevier shall be granted the right of first refusal for the exclusive commercial development of any finalist’s submissions". - Bill Hooker