A website that looks like Windows 3.1
James Dewar with laboratory equipment. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W.F. Meggers Collection.
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Dmitry: Don’t know if it can be considered a language feature, but, in C++ almost any compiler error related to templates delivers a fair amount of WTF to many C++ programmers around the world on daily basis :)
MadKeithV: That’s okay, most code related to templates already creates plenty of WTFs around the world.
Matt Greer: Oh come now. undefined reference to ’std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char»& std::operator« <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)’ Is perfectly readable!
via StackOverflow - Strangest Language Feature
A bit.ly powered url shortener is now 4 characters long saving You your valuable characters in tweets and is now called j.mp. I’ve created 2 j.mp bookmarklets to use in your browser. They should work with all decent browsers, where the bit.ly bookmarklets work. Just drag the one you like to the bookmark bar to save.
This one will open the j.mp shortener in new window:
If you want to use the j.mp shortener as the sidebar, here is another bookmarklet for this:
NOTICE: These bookmarklets are not officially supported by j.mp. They were created by altering the official bit.ly bookmarklet and they work for me. However I am not able to provide any support.

0x1fff: 35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know -
list of interesting open source projects that Google is involved in
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Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa -
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A very deadly weapon!
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H. Richard Gustafson playing with a guitar to pass the time while
monitoring the control room at a Fermilab experiment. Credit: AIP
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Lawrence W. Jones Collection.
First I thought it was Tom Waits when I saw the photo…
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Clean tumblr dashboard theme updated -
I have updated my dashboard theme for the tumblr dashboard created long ago.
feel free to use it if you like :) It also works with Greasmonkey or GreaseKit on Safari.
At the geothermic laboratory of the Permafrost Research Centre.
(via proofmathisbeautiful, freshphotons)
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