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How Residential Solar as a Service Began
Bringing Next-Gen Solar PV from the Lab to Market
Enhanced Geothermal: Frack or Friction?
The Solar PV Transition: What Comes Next?
When Clean Energy Gets Dirty, and Dirty Energy Goes Clean
How Scum Could Fuel the Hydrogen Economy
Got Wood?
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Archive for November, 2010
links for 2010-11-29
November 30, 2010links for 2010-11-28
November 29, 2010-
<ul><li>The Dangerous Myth of the Hero Entrepreneur </li><li>Health Care’s Frequent Flyers </li><li>Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen </li><li>The Future of Internet Search </li><li>Life by the Numbers </li><li>Face-to-Face with Facebook </li><li>Liberating NASA </li><li>Heal Thyself Online </li><li>To Russia with Social Media</li></ul>
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Of course, any changes would affect the economics of the project and raise electricity prices for people on the island. For a fishing community dealing with a high cost of living and depressed prices for lobster, that could be a difficult pill to swallow. Because the vast majority of islanders strongly support the project, tension has arisen between the small number of impacted homeowners and the rest of the community.
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The 45 decibel limit is lower than compliance levels for airports, factories and highways. People seem to be able to live around those. So why do wind turbines make people so angry? Well, the obvious answer – at least in rural areas like Vinalhaven – is that 45 decibels is still a significant increase in sound levels. It can substantially change the local soundscape. If that reality is not properly communicated, the agitation may increase.
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links for 2010-11-27
November 28, 2010-
"Yet winter is the leisure time of country people, and it is then, in spite of the frequent misery of the weather, that their social pleasures come into stunted bloom."
links for 2010-11-24
November 25, 2010-
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<p>It's "Yay", because for important use cases JSON is dramatically better than XML. In particular, JSON shines as a programming language-independent representation of typical programming language data structures. This is an incredibly important use case and it would be hard to overstate how appallingly bad XML is for this. The fundamental problem is the mismatch between programming language data structures and the XML element/attribute data model of elements. This leaves the developer with three choices, all unappetising:</p><ul><li>live with an inconvenient element/attribute representation of the data;</li><li>descend into XML Schema hell in the company of your favourite data binding tool;</li><li>write reams of code to convert the XML into a convenient data structure.</li></ul><p>By contrast with JSON, especially with a dynamic programming language, you can get a reasonable in-memory representation just by calling a library function.</p>
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links for 2010-11-20
November 21, 2010links for 2010-11-15
November 16, 2010links for 2010-11-12
November 13, 2010-
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…a simple app that will display a <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html">TextView</a> and show a <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Button.html">Button</a>. When you click the button it will display a <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html">Toast</a> message.
<pre>(require 'android-defs)(activity hello
(on-create-view
(android.widget.LinearLayout (this)
orientation: android.widget.LinearLayout:VERTICAL
view:
(android.widget.TextView (this)
text: "Hello Android, from Kawa Android!")
view:
(android.widget.Button (this)
text: "Click Me!"
on-click-listener:
(lambda (v)
((android.widget.Toast:makeText
(this)
"Beep Bop! You clicked me!"
android.widget.Toast:LENGTH_LONG):show))))))
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http://hubbicycle.com/
Hub Bicycle Company is a woman owned, pro bicycle repair shop in beautiful East Cambridge, Massachusetts. providing top notch service and selected gear. Here at Hub we think it's important to advocate for safer streets & trail access for cyclists. We also believe in supporting women in cycling, whether they're trying to win the race or racing to the grocery store. As far as the environment goes, cycling has less of an impact than, say, rally car racing or diesel trucks, but there's always room for improvement. We're doing our part by trying to support companies that use responsible packaging, using safer solvents/cleaners/lubricants/adhesives/grease, reusing before recycling (need boxes or packing material? we'll be happy to give you some.), and finally, recycling.
We're located at 918 Cambridge St, between Inman Square and Lechmere Station. You can get to us on the Red Line (Central Sq is .8mi away), the Green Line (Lechmere is .8mi away), or on the 69 bus.
links for 2010-11-10
November 11, 2010-
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Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman, starring singer-songwriter James Taylor, Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. Esquire magazine declared the film its movie of the year for 1971, and even published the entire screenplay in its April, 1971 issue, but the film was not a commercial success. The film has since become a cult classic. […]
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Two-Lane Blacktop is notable as a time capsule film of U.S. Route 66 during the pre-Interstate Highway era, and for its stark footage and minimal dialogue. As such it has become popular with fans of Route 66. Two-Lane Blacktop has been compared to similar road movies with an existentialist message from the era, such as Vanishing Point, Easy Rider, and Electra Glide in Blue.
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links for 2010-11-08
November 9, 2010-
<pre>GameBoy Emulation in JavaScriptVenn Diagrams in PHP and imagickDiscordian Date Handling in Javalinecolor.pl: Rule based Line Coloring in irssiAudio Captchas in PHPImplementing PayPal Website Payments Pro UKShooting Yourself in the Foot Part TwoJavaScript Tab ControlsAutomated Deployment with SubversionExtended Text Mode on the C64Building Complex Emails with PHPIntranet DNS Resolution with BIND ViewsAn Introduction to CompressionWhitelist SSH Access with OpenWRTBooting Linux from FlashRunning a Windows Partition in VMwareBitwise OperatorsThe Smallest NDS FileVirus Detection with Message DigestsDOM Manipulation and CSS Trees
http://imrannazar.com/ProgrammingMemory Usage of Constants in PHPBinary Coded Decimal Addition on Atmel AVRGameBoy Z80 Opcode MapNintendo GB-Z80.Parsing the DIME Message FormatJavaScript SlideshowsList of Countries and Dependent TerritoriesAsynchronous JavaScript and JSONJavaScript TetrisARM Opcode Map</pre> -
<div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">slower than http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">I haven't gotten it to work in Chrome</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://imrannazar.com/stuff/software/jsgb/tests/tetris.gb">http://imrannazar.com/stuff/software/jsgb/tests/tetris.gb</a></span></li></ul><div>Sections:</div><div><ul><li>CPU</li><li>Memory</li><li>GPU Timings</li><li>Integration</li><li>Input</li><li>Sprites</li><li>Interrupts</li></ul></div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div></div>
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Creating and growing a community is an art, but there are known best practices. From the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference, Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, tells about his experiences with the Ubuntu community and some of the lessons he has learned about how to make a technical community work.
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There are two important community-related jobs: evangelists who promote a project to users, and community managers that coordinate with the engineers who write software. Evangelists are cheerleaders that spread the word and create mindshare. Community managers need people skills and organizational skills to help create teams, enable communication, and create an environment of collaboration. Being an effective community manager is much more about motivating people to produce good work than being someone who has the loudest podium to speak from.
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