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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 09-04-2015

Apr 09, 2015 12:00

How a Cities: Skylines modder turned community generosity into a full-time job
(tags: models design CrowdFunding money )
How California farmers are conserving water, and why you're the one who ends up using it
(tags: farming water California drought )
Brain scans reveal how people 'justify' killing
(tags: brain neuroscience murder guilt )
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Comments 14

andrewducker April 9 2015, 11:12:26 UTC

Blank link thing happened again.

So it's not an async problem.

And logging the RSS coming in showed it was identical for both the WordPress and LJ feeds.

And the problem happened before it was written out to the destination, because the pre-post stored on the server looks fine.

So whatever is happening is either in the Parse step or the Format step. Both of which go through exactly the same code.

Next step - tell App Engine to only allow through one request at a time, in case it's a concurrency issue in the libraries I'm using for parsing RSS or templating the posts.

Bah!

rhythmaning April 9 2015, 11:47:10 UTC

I was about to point that out, but you beat me to it...

andrewducker April 9 2015, 11:53:17 UTC

It should have been fixed half an hour before your comment - can you still see an issue?

rhythmaning April 9 2015, 12:02:26 UTC

No, you fixed it - it's just that I started to draft a comment that they were blank - and then carried on looking some other links, and by the time I went back to finish my comment, you had posted yours!

bart_calendar April 9 2015, 11:47:59 UTC

If Marvel did a Hell Cow TV show I'd watch it.

andrewducker April 9 2015, 11:56:29 UTC

Well, when Howard the Duck makes his comeback...

rhythmaning April 9 2015, 11:50:30 UTC

Also, not certain about the pylons thing - other countries have different designs.

andrewducker April 9 2015, 11:53:54 UTC

Yup, I think this is just new for the UK.

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/holland/dutch-high-voltage-pylons are new in the Netherlands since 2009, I believe.

rhythmaning April 9 2015, 12:04:52 UTC

Funnily enough, I was thinking of French pylons - I guess a variation (albeit a major one) on the classic lattice.

Going through the Channel Tunnel, the pylons are one of the first things I notice which say "France!"

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=france+pylons&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1GomVYKPFNPWasPqgNAD&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=619

ggreig April 9 2015, 12:53:16 UTC

I want us to have this sort.

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threegoldfish April 9 2015, 22:23:23 UTC

Can you really call a comic book character obscure if they've had a feature film with a spin off made, well, over a decade ago but still relatively recently?

ETA: Wait, misread. He's not calling Daredevil obscure, just the other three. Which I wouldn't call obscure. B-list, sure. But not like Squirrel Girl or Great Lakes Avengers obscure.

patreon game bits apostle_of_eris April 10 2015, 02:34:06 UTC

I adore the concept and success of kickstarter, and now patreon is starting to open new frontiers.
O brave new world!

Re: patreon game bits andrewducker April 10 2015, 07:42:15 UTC

Oh yes. It's not for everyone. But the fact that James Nicoll is making money from random people paying him to write book reviews, and this guy is making money from making 3D virtual buildings makes me happy.