En lappuggla har hittats skjuten vid ett bo med ungar i närheten av Älvsbyn.

25-year electronics veteran Conrad Lee noticed that commodity multi-channel security DVRs have both more channels than a typical household needs and more capabilities than their makers advertise -- at least, with some creative re-use of their video feeds. With a home-grown controller hooked up to an otherwise unused video channel, a run of the mill security DVR can be used as a command center for household items, like lights, locks, thermostats, cameras, or whatever else you think of) by means of controls both old-fashioned (the ubiquitous X10 devices, some of which you probably have stashed in a drawer) and new (Z-wave). He showed off his system at last month's Maker Faire -- take a look (video below) at what his clever hardware re-use makes possible, and at Lee's controller. It means giving up one (relatively) inexpensive channel, to gain capabilities that would cost quite a bit more in a ready-built system, like smart-phone control and pan/tilt control for cameras. (Alternate Video Link)

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There’s a meeting this Thursday at 7 pm at Omni. I’ll be doing a talk about Vesper syncing. I suspect that the talk may take a turn into a general discussion about CloudKit, Swift, and other WWDC announcements.

Afterwards we’ll go the Cyclops, as normal.

We don’t use a regular UINavigationBar with Vesper. (We don’t even use a UINavigationController.) What appears to be the navigation bar is a custom view that doesn’t descend from UINavigationBar.

The reason for that is that we have transition animations that I don’t know how to do using a UINavigationBar. Here’s a screenshot of the navbar as you’re swiping back from detail to timeline view.

Note that the < and + buttons are at full opacity and don’t move, while All Notes and the icons are in mid-fade. (And All Notes is moving from left to the middle of the navbar.)

The reason for this is that the leftmost and rightmost buttons appear in both timeline and detail view, and in those same locations, so it’s nice that they don’t animate at all.

My question: is there a way to accomplish this using a real UINavigationBar? I like custom UI and our design, but I’m much happier when the implementation can be based on the standard stuff.

I think I made the right call — the only call possible. But I’d love to be wrong.

Managing Editor Josh Centers joined host John Chidgey on the Pragmatic podcast to debate the pros and cons of streaming versus downloading media. Much of the decision comes down to storage versus bandwidth costs, though for some mediums, like comic books, streaming is inherently preferable due to selection and lower overall cost.

 

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Managing Editor Josh Centers joined host John Chidgey on the Pragmatic podcast to debate the pros and cons of streaming versus downloading media. Much of the decision comes down to storage versus bandwidth costs, though for some mediums, like comic books, streaming is inherently preferable due to selection and lower overall cost.

 

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Fetmaoperation ger diabetiker normala sockervärden två år efter operationen. På längre sikt återfaller dock många i sjukdomen.

Fetmaoperation ger diabetiker normala sockervärden två år efter operationen. På längre sikt återfaller dock många i sjukdomen.

bmahersciwriter writes: "NASA administrators are strategizing a push to do more science on the International Space Station in the coming years. The pressure is on, given the rapidly cooling relations between the U.S. and Russia whose deputy prime minister recently suggested that U.S. astronauts use a trampoline if they want to get into orbit. Aiding in the push for more research is the development of two-way cargo ships by SpaceX, which should allow for return of research materials (formerly a hurdle to doing useful experiments). NASA soon aims to send new earth-monitoring equipment to the station and expanded rodent facilities. And geneLAB will send a range of model organisms like fruit flies and nematodes into space for months at a time."

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JavaScript is nobody’s first choice of language. (Almost nobody, maybe. There’s always a language you like better.)

But it’s everybody’s second choice of language — for the simple reason that everybody thinks that it’s everybody’s second choice of language.

(Maybe this is too clever to be true. Working on it.)

JavaScript is nobody’s first choice of language. (Almost nobody, maybe. There’s always a language you like better.)

But it’s everybody’s second choice of language — for the simple reason that everybody thinks that it’s everybody’s second choice of language.

(Maybe this is too clever to be true. Working on it.)

Instead of diving right into Swift by writing Vesper for Mac, I’m tempted to do a warm-up project first, just to get the hang of the language.

Chris Lattner on Twitter:

Of course Swift supports #! scripts, you can immediately execute a swift script with "xcrun swift -i".

What’s the obvious thing to do? I could replace my Ruby-based static blog generator with Swift code.

I probably won’t do this. But I’m tempted — and I bet somebody does this.

Instead of diving right into Swift by writing Vesper for Mac, I’m tempted to do a warm-up project first, just to get the hang of the language.

Chris Lattner on Twitter:

Of course Swift supports #! scripts, you can immediately execute a swift script with "xcrun swift -i".

What’s the obvious thing to do? I could replace my Ruby-based static blog generator with Swift code.

I probably won’t do this. But I’m tempted — and I bet somebody does this.

En lärare i 60-årsåldern åtalas för att ha misshandlat en då 14-årig flicka på en kommunal skola i Göteborg förra våren.

En lärare i 60-årsåldern åtalas för att ha misshandlat en då 14-årig flicka på en kommunal skola i Göteborg förra våren.