Lukas Fittl's Soup (without imported items)

The Man in Seat Sixty-One

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:38:58 GMT

The most amazing website for travelling by train. Loving the fact that they have detailed information on the train system in China.

http://www.seat61.com/index.html

Apparently I'm running into cameras and microphones all the time, without eve...

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:33:37 GMT

Apparently I'm running into cameras and microphones all the time, without even noticing.

MySQL error 1025: Error on rename .. (errno: 152)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:22:52 GMT

You are trying to delete a column in a table using:

ALTER TABLE sometable DROP foreign_something;

And MySQL gives you a strange error message like this:

ERROR 1025 (HY000): Error on rename of './somedatabase/sometable' to './somedatabase/#sql2-4aab-71' (errno: 152)

Turns out, the MySQL query parser thinks you want to delete a foreign key, because the column name starts with "foreign", and you didn't escape it properly.

ALTER TABLE sometable DROP `foreign_something`;

or ALTER TABLE sometable DROP COLUMN foreign_something;

works just fine.

The sweet magic of SSDDelaying database scalability issues, pretty effectively.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:34:48 GMT

[Reposted from kitchen]

The sweet magic of SSD

Delaying database scalability issues, pretty effectively.

Teitur Lassen and Nico Muhly soundtrack their favorite YouTube videos in thei...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:26:42 GMT

Teitur Lassen and Nico Muhly soundtrack their favorite YouTube videos in their series Confessions.

[Reposted from lfittl-inspiration]

Steve Blank: Customer Development for Web Startups

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:10:36 GMT

http://steveblank.com/2010/02/25/customer-development-for-web-startups/

Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:49:29 GMT

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/407159447/cassandra-twitter-an-interview-with-ryan-king

Constable Crescent warehouse conversion The apartment I was living in for the first month in London. Good old times.

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:13:37 GMT

Constable Crescent warehouse conversion

The apartment I was living in for the first month in London. Good old times.

Though I'm still glad we moved to a much nicer place near London Bridge for the other months.

Moscow-Vladivostok: Virtual Journey

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:32:57 GMT

http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

Max Richter - Song

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:55:45 GMT

Max Richter - Song

How to optimize web apps with KISSmetrics

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:23:45 GMT

Venture Hacks interview with Hiten Shah

http://venturehacks.com/articles/optimize-kissmetrics?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+venturehacks+%28Venture+Hacks%29

Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon Teaser Making Of

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:55:00 GMT

Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon Teaser Making Of

Dance Digital: Jonah Bokaer master class

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:54:10 GMT

Dance Digital: Jonah Bokaer master class

The Third & The Seventh

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:14:15 GMT

The Third & The Seventh

2-01 Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:45:46 GMT

Metavari - Be One Of Us And Hear No NoiseI absolutely love how this track tells a story and emotions, as if it was a feature-length film.

Philipp's birthday party. Fun!

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:38:26 GMT

Philipp's birthday party. Fun!

[Reposted from mistress]

Murder

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:48 GMT

"A method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers where centralized distribution systems wouldn't otherwise function."

Engineered by the great folks at Twitter.

http://github.com/lg/murder#readme

Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the ...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:38:09 GMT

Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.

Message to Bears - Daylight Goodbye

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:07:46 GMT

Message to Bears - Daylight Goodbye

Michel Gondry Soup TV

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:08:42 GMT

http://michelgondry.soup.io/tv

[Reposted from c3o]

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on..."

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:07:08 GMT

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

–Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

Central station, Copenhagen by Stig Nygaard

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:04:47 GMT

Central station, Copenhagen by Stig Nygaard

(Image)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:43:45 GMT

[Reposted from derreisende via emo]

Peter Broderick - Robbie's Song

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:07:44 GMT

Peter Broderick - Robbie's Song

Rainstorm sequencer on Novation Launchpad

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:27:26 GMT

Rainstorm sequencer on Novation Launchpad

Melodic step sequencer for the Novation LaunchpadBased on Max for Live, so yo...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:20:31 GMT

Melodic step sequencer for the Novation Launchpad

Based on Max for Live, so you can easily make your own step sequencer if you like.

"They did not do enough work to go out and contact bloggers. They didn't go o..."

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:20:53 GMT

"They did not do enough work to go out and contact bloggers. They didn't go out and try to woo corporate partners to see if they would help them get their message out.

They just waited for users to come and they didn't come in great enough quantity to support their business by the time their money ran out."

–David Shen: The Problem with Early Stage Me-Too Product Startups

Nat Friedman: Startup Visa

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:03:37 GMT

How Ximian got the visa for their co-founder Miguel de Icaza (H1B wasn't possible, L1 considered, ended up with O1) and why the US needs a startup visa.

Also see Brad Feld's Startup Visa update. I'm really hoping that the current plan will get through congress in 2010.

http://nat.org/blog/2009/10/startup-visa/

"The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak togethe..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:20:34 GMT

"The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others."

–Alain de Botton, On Love

[Reposted from Shuji via antifuchs]

"The better you know something the more difficult it becomes to teach. Because..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:27:21 GMT

"The better you know something the more difficult it becomes to teach. Because you're no longer aware of the conceptual difficulties of a beginning learner."

–Eric Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

A Thousand WordsEvery day: so many opportunities to connect...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:32:20 GMT

A Thousand Words

Every day: so many opportunities to connect...
What if you took just one?

The recording of the Codes in the Clouds concert in Vienna.Watch the complete...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:31:24 GMT

The recording of the Codes in the Clouds concert in Vienna.

Watch the complete set

Re-making Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up in Ableton Live

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:49:29 GMT

Re-making Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up in Ableton Live

Final Cut Pro's always identically looking progress bar and completely incorr...

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:27:30 GMT

Final Cut Pro's always identically looking progress bar and completely incorrect estimates: Not helping.

Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieze Esta llena De Cosas

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:17:50 GMT

Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieze Esta llena De Cosas

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:46:32 GMT

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

The Sky May Be Falling... But The Stars Look Good On YouA documentary about i...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:30:14 GMT

The Sky May Be Falling... But The Stars Look Good On You

A documentary about icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds (24 min)

Mini Seedcamp 2010 dates

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:09 GMT

Zagreb - 11th February

Prague - 2nd March

Barcelona - 23rd March

Paris - 15th April

Tel Aviv - 6th May

Copenhagen - 27th May

Berlin - 16th June

London - 20th July

http://blog.seedcamp.com/2009/12/announcing-mini-seedcamp-dates-for-2010.html

People with big dreams sometimes get lost

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:50:02 GMT

Today we lost a friend, and the world lost a relentlessly original, amazingly creative voice.

It feels hollow to be typing this into a form on a website, reminding us of the ultimate insignificance of all the pretty pixels on the screen, and of our helplessness in the face of real human problems. But as a crucial member of the initial Soup team back in 2007, Florian was a part of Soup, and his Soup accounts a part of him.

You'll be missed, Florian.

[Reposted from kitchen via c3o]

How Phusion Built A More Efficient Ruby 1.8 Interpreter

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:30:59 GMT

How Phusion Built A More Efficient Ruby 1.8 Interpreter