In the Song of Roland I ran into a battle cry which escaped translation. The italics are not mine.

He saw the miscreant stretched on earth:

"Caitiff, thy threats are of little worth.

On, Franks! the felons before us fall;

Montjoie!" 'Tis the Emperor's battle-call.

And again

"Well fought," said …

Someone posed a question on the falcon mailing list the other day. They asked "How do I handle a long running-request > 15 minutes, but ensure termination when the client kills the http connection?"

The response was: Don't

Instead of having the client wait on one request for the 15 minute …

Late Thursday night I discovered Quadrant Z, an elaborate "paper and pencil game of galactic warfare." Against a buzzing background of midnight frogs and palmetto bugs I leaned forward in my chair and emptied the last dregs of coffee from my long since cooled mug. The rules can be difficult …

I run my Angular JS frontend on a different domain than my Falcon backend. When I tried to connect the two, chrome gave an XHR error: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'. This lead me to Falcon's github issue 223 which is marked as open. Sebasmagri was kind enough to post a middleware fix …

This quick tutorial is as much for my sake as for any potential readers. Compiled from the following sources, so you don't have to.

• The Falcon Tutorial
• Dreamhost's Passenger WSGI Instructions
• Similar Tutorial on Django

Passenger on Your Domain

This is covered in Dreamhost's wiki, but I'll quickly cover the …

1283-1350 Japan. Imperial Court. Poet. Buddhist monk in 1324.

He developed the Japanese aesthetic: beauty is indissolubly bound to its perishability. He wrote, "If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in this world …

Here is a quick listing of the real limitations of hard drive RPM as found in a post by TheSSDGuy. The comments underneath the article held a wealth of information, which I've consolidated here.

Source: Why Don't HDDs Spin Faster Than 15k RPM

It is not because the disc might …

This metaphor comes from Herlihy's The Art of Multiprocessor Programming; maybe in the future I'll extend it.

Multiprocessor synchronization and Concurrency is painting a house. You have four workers, two brushes, one roller, one ladder, and one giant can of paint. The goal here is to paint the house as …

"I can't import mp3 files into iTunes 11" you say. I hear your pain.

Disclaimer, I am not importing music from audio CDs. If you're looking to do that look at the apple documentation here.

Attempts

There are various ways of 'importing' an audio file into iTunes. You can drag …

Source

Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. Melvin Kranzberg

Harris argues that there was a moment weirdly similar to this one: the year 1450. That.s the year when Johannes Gutenberg managed to invent a printing press.

a scholastic world that was initially scattered began to …