Check out Facebook’s worldwide coding competition:
The 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup is the first annual Facebook programming contest where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. […] Many will enter, but only one will claim title as champion and take home the $5,000 USD cash prize and be immortalized on the Hacker Cup.
Registration opens on December 20th 2010.
On a side note, I love that poster design. 🙂
All I have to say to the following is it’s about freakin’ time…
In what appears to be a 180 degree turn, Michelle Courchesne, Présidente du Conseil du Trésor of the government of Québec, announced that any governmental organization and any other entity depending on the government must consider open source software for any IT project, at the Salon du Logiciel Libre in Québec city.
Via Montreal Tech Watch » Québec Government makes way for open source software in IT infrastructure.
It’s funny cuz it’s true. :p
http://twitter.com/#!/stephdau/status/12559220436111360
Mmmm, I’m detecting a pattern in my last few posts… Playa, here we come (soon).
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The car behind us was parked so bad today that one of the city’s sidewalk snow-remover got stuck and the only way to get it out was to move our car. So we got to work, helped by the city’s employees. I wish they got stuck every winter morning, it’d be so much easier/faster to get the kids to school. 😉
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This is ME! Guessing you have to be from or living in Quebec (and speak French) to really understand that one. But if you do, then you’ll know exactly what he means. Well, unless you’re a bear.
Tsé c’est wooooooo…
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Skateistan is one of my favorite causes to support. One could argue there are better ones out there, but this one is near and dear to my heart.
There’s nothing like watching an Afghan woman go down a ramp for the first time and she’s achieved something that she never thought she would.
Visit skateistan.org for more information, and please give generously. And if you need something to “show for it”, they have some nice t-shirts. Always makes a great holiday present. 🙂
See also: Skateistan, the Movie
Taken from our living room, through the window, no post-processing.
I’ve upgraded our household netbook to GNU/Linux Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10, from 9.04), and the latter is now the default boot-time option instead of Windows XP.
Twenty of the drive’s 160GB are dedicated to Linux, as ext4. The rest is divided between the legacy NTFS partition for Windows, and another partition (~5GB) with Acer’s eRecovery tool, so I can reset the machine to factory defaults if ever needed. Since I was able to resize the partition dynamically right in the installer, I didn’t even need to move the files we had under Windows. The NTFS partition mounts in full read/write mode, so why bother for now?
Teagan (11) has been using it for a few days now, with Chromium/Chrome as his default browser and VLC as his default media player. The latter two being the apps he spends 99.9% of his time in.
For the record, I did try Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but I couldn’t get used to the dashboard-type UX, being a long-time Gnome user… The rest of the family would have probably been fine with it, but I figured I’d stick with the original for now. We can install the netbook remix interface on top later anyway.
Laundry baskets need protection? Never fear, Geronimo is here.