Now, this is embarassing… It looks like requesting a non-existent video on Youtube causes a “500 Internal Server Error”! For example: Valid url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5CeNunbHto Invalid url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtf Surely, a better response would be something like the one returned when the videoId is misisng: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Seems like predictions became true.
the new redesign of delicious.com broke so many things, that I thought I had to take notes: bookmarklet in Chrome can’t be drag-n-dropped to the toolbar. its javascript code is also hard to copy and paste to create the bookmarklet “manually”. install links for the chrome and firefox extensions redirect to empty pages. documentation for developer [...]
Tagged rantSpoon Boy: Do not try and bend the list. That’s impossible. Instead . . . only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon Boy: There is no list. Neo: There is no list? Spoon Boy: Then you’ll see that it is not the list that bends; it is only yourself from “Practical Common [...]
Numerical Recipies is a classic of Scientific Computing. download here the whole book in ps or pdf. a little story. older versions are freely available here. if you are lazy, like me, and you get bored of saving every single file by hand, you can use this fantastic Firefox plugin. or download them zipped here. [...]
Tagged download, e-book, free, numerical, recipiesjust a reminder of a very useful set of tips to effectively use vim to edit python files: http://henry.precheur.org/2008/4/18/Indenting%20Python%20with%20VIM.html
Tagged vim pythonif you work in a company with a too restrictive firewall, but you still need to access a cvs repository like sourceforge, you can bypass it using the program connect.c. from here: connect.c is the simple relaying command to make network connection via SOCKS and https proxy. It is mainly intended to be used as [...]
Tagged connect, cvs, firewall, proxyfinalmente, sembra che Photopedia stia per uscire anche in italia! conterra’ una delle mie prime fotografie digitali, che potete trovare qui (rigorosamente sotto Creative Commons License). potenza della rete…
Tagged digital photographysince today, I always used Skype to call landline and mobile phones in the uk: it is much cheaper than any italian telephone company. but from today, I’m going with something else: VoipWise and VoipBuster. here is a comparison of the rates to call the uk: Skype landline: 0.020 eur/min mobile: 0.236 eur/min VoipWise landline: [...]
Tagged voip free phone calldal sito di beppe grillo: L’8 settembre sarà il giorno del Vaffanculo day, o V-Day. Una via di mezzo tra il D-Day dello sbarco in Normandia e V come Vendetta. Si terrà sabato otto settembre nelle piazze d’Italia, per ricordare che dal 1943 non è cambiato niente. Ieri il re in fuga e la Nazione [...]