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  tags: humor

• Invaluable command line tools for web developers | Coderholic

  Life as a web developer can be hard when things start going wrong. The problem could be in any number of places. Is there a problem with the request your sending, is the problem with the response, is there a problem with a request in a third party library you’re using, is an external API failing? There are lots of different tools that can make our life a little bit easier. Here are some command line tools that I’ve found to be invaluable.

  tags: programming

• History Of The Stack Exchange API, Mistakes « Kevin Montrose

  Posted: 2011/08/14 | Author: kevinmontrose | Filed under: pontification | 8 Comments »
  In an earlier post, I wrote about some of the philosophy and “cool bits” in the 1.0 release of the Stack Exchange API.  That’s all well and good, but of course I’m going to tout the good parts of our API; I wrote a lot of it after all.  More interesting are the things that have turned out to be mistakes, we learn more from failure than success after all.

  tags: programming

• BART website hacked, passenger info leaked

  (08-14) 16:34 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of international hackers launched a cyber attack against BART today, defacing an agency website and releasing user information taken from the site.
  
  The move came a day after the group known as Anonymous promised retaliation for BART's decision to cut cellular telephone service to prevent a protest in downtown San Francisco on Thursday afternoon.

  tags: technology

• Time Warner to buy Insight for $3 billion: source | Reuters

  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to buy The Carlyle Group's cable operator Insight Communications Co for around $3 billion in cash, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
  
  Time Warner could announce the deal as soon as Monday morning, the source said.
  
  Insight is the 10th-largest cable operator in the United States, Carlyle's website says. It sells cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone services, serving around 750,000 customers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

  tags: technology

• book lovers never go to bed alone

  tags: culture

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