The Bourne Identity has become a full Hollywood franchise at this point. To help raise money for water charity Water.org, Jason Bourne actor Matt Damon teamed up with Omaze to asks strangers to help in spy style missions.
What started out as a silly and strange fad in the late 1990’s has become one of the biggest and longest lasting video game franchises from Nintendo. We’re talking about Pokemon of course.
The Warp Zone had the fun idea to merge Pokemon with slam poetry.
The Internet is covered with stupid and silly life hacks. But one of the original life hack experts, the Household Hacker, is one of the few who actually offers some interesting ideas. In this clip, he explains 10 tricks to save cash at home.
First it was parkour. But that’s been out for years now. Then it was trick shots. But that’s a bore online as well. Now there’s a new trend online. Bottle flipping. How Ridiculous performs some sick water bottle flipping in this new clip.
After biking for some time now, CrashTestDave has learned to always wear a helmet camera to captured bad drivers in video. While merging, one women simply ignored him and basically pushed him out of the lane.
Good thing there was a cop a block later. Now, this clip has gone viral with over 2 million views!
Regular expressions are a powerful tool for validating inputs, but what if your input is itself a regular expression? Is there a regular expression that can validate regular expressions?
Well, yes, if your regular expression engine supports recursion: /^((?:(?:[^?+*{}()[\]\\|]+|\\.|\[(?:\^?\\.|\^[^\\]|[^\\^])(?:[^\]\\]+|\\.)*\]|\((?:\?[:=!]|\?<[=!]|\?>)?(?1)??\)|\(\?(?:R|[+-]?\d+)\))(?:(?:[?+*]|\{\d+(?:,\d*)?\})[?+]?)?|\|)*)$/.
Today’s Representative Line (which is more than a single line) comes from Ryan S, who found an implementation of isValidRegex which is perhaps a bit more elegant:
public static bool isValidRegEx(string value)
{
// intent is to block empty strings from being accepted
return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(value);
}
You might be thinking, “That doesn’t validate anything at all!”, but at least it doesn’t summon dread Cthulhu from R’gexyleh. I count that as a win.
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Every time you go for a car wash, the attendant or robot tells you put the car in neutral and roll up your windows. Most of us double check to make sure the windows are closed. Sadly, this driver did not make sure. Splash!
Bruce Banner is the Marvel character better known as The Hulk, the super strong green monster. Before publicly changing her name to Caityln, Bruce Jenner was world famous as an Olympic gold decathlon winner. So which Bruce is best?
The only way to find out is in an Epic Rap Battle.
Beer Pong has been around for ages. Finally, it seems the game has taken a step into the 21st century. Some geniuses realized they could up their game by include two Roomba sweeping robots on small tables. Why has no one thought of this before??
Candids of Rebecca Hall wearing a red bikini at the beach from earlier this month! Nice pokies and a hint of butt crack for the win! Photos via Imagevenue: 
There’s country and then there’s Hannah Barron. The nineteen year old Alabama girl may only be five feet tall, but she can put most guys to shame with her impressive fishing and hunting career. She especially likes to catch catfish with her bare hands just by sticking her hand down their throat! Now, she’s gone viral with millions of views and her own TV show after the Web watched as she caught a 30 pound catfish!
Los Angeles is already famous for having some of the worst traffic in the country. Somehow, adam palya discovered a busy intersection that has no traffic lights or signs. It’s a pure nightmare. The fact that there aren’t constant accidents is surprising.
Brianna Addolorato is a model and fashion blogger and here are her boobs at the beach in Miami! Perky! Photos via Imagevenue: 
This adorable little kitten decided to escape from its enclosure. But once it reached the edge, it decided to jump into the puppy enclosure next door. The puppy was super thrilled with the new roommate, but it’s hard to tell if the kitten is happy or regretful.
Skateboarding and Tony Hawk go together like basketball and Michael Jordan. Even though he’s 48 years old he’s still pushing forward in the dangerous sport. After pulling off the inconceivable 900 jump 17 years ago, Tony did it again!
Running is one of the worst parts about gym class. Most of us struggle to even run one mile. But that’s a joke for Dean Karzanes, reports Inside Edition. The super athlete can run 350 miles without barely sweating thanks to a genetic condition.
When asked to choose among several possible tools to do a job, qualified technical people look at the manual and test to see if the tool actually does what they need it to do. Is it reasonably configurable? Must it have root privilege to launch, or can it be installed as your application login id? Smarter folks will do a load test to see if it will scale beyond a handful of records and work with the expected volumes of data. And all of this will be combined to form an informed opinion as to whether the tool is appropriate for the task at hand.
High Level Managers have a different approach. They are too busy to deal with mere technical details.
After numerous outages at a large multi-national bank, a high level manager decided that they needed to do something to stabilize things, so he put together numerous charts to compare the various software packages that were available to automate solving their problems. There were slide shows, spreadsheets and myriad documents detailing how one tool was better than the others and that it would solve all of their problems.
The only problem with his analysis was that it was not based upon actual features or testing, but on the sales brochures and promises made by the salesman.
Not to let the facts get in the way of managing a problem, several suitcases of money were provisioned and turned over to the salesman in exchange for a full all-bells-and-whistles site license for the new tool. The new tool was brought in house and ran through a few simple test cases. Then it went live in production. Then it hit the fan.
Bob was brought in to see why their applications were crashing in spite of their shiny new be-all end-all tool.
Queries that should have completed in milliseconds took several minutes to complete. The tool was sucking up 80GB of memory just to launch in basic mode. And we're not even going to go into how the tool mistook email addresses for websites it had to crawl.
The manager, realizing that the salesman had lied to him, had to deal with the spilled milk, and opted to forge ahead at all costs.
Bob created a web app that alleviated the worst problems by pre-massaging input and query results. He could not push away a gnawing suspicion that he was merely repairing damage rather than adding actual value to the company.
After about a year of this, the manager committed to drastic changes in the work processes. When Bob learned about this, he asked them if they'd even done rough, back-of-napkin estimations of the expected manual workload in the changed process; after all, they already had a wealth of data from the past year and estimations surely could be done given the new process was specified in substantial detail. After all, they had gotten burned on their 'analysis' of the product they bought to solve all the instability. He was met with blank stares.
The new process was put in place and the amount of manual work tripled overnight.
Bob put in a lot of overtime trying to fight all manner of fires. Still, he was only partially successful, as the task of developing an app to totally fix the situation for a huge and complex package on top of a pretty complex work process was out of the question for a single developer.
After many, many months of this ongoing failure, the manager who started all of this had analysed the cause of the all of problems. The entire team was called in by the manager to a meeting. As could be expected, it was announced that the productivity was deemed too low while the risk and cost were too high, and so the entire team; analysts, lower level managers and Bob were laid off.
The manager was promoted for recognizing the cause of the failures and was given more responsibility to oversee other projects in addition to his own.
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This video of yo-yo master Ben Conde showing off his yo-yo skills has only gone viral. Most of us have seen the usual yo-yo tricks. But somehow Ben shows off some impressive tricks with his yo-yo that isn’t connected to the string!
Snapchat filters are those fun overlays you can place on your digital face. They may seem silly and juvenile, but the technology behind them is very serious and complex. Vox explains in this new video.
