January 2008
35 posts
TextMate “Trundle to Rails 2.0 Bundle” →
Go make the Rails bundle useful again!
“Rails improperly pluralizes the word “penis”.”
– #10919 (incorrect pluralization) - Rails Trac
“As communities of users become more sophisticated, they need both explanations...”
– trivial
“The universe started in 1970. Anyone claiming to be over 38 is lying about...”
– xkcd
design rules by Jef Raskin →
“You hand the vendor a pile of cash and they allow you to do a handful of...”
– Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?
“Have you ever been outdoors in Ohio in January? It’s a frozen hell hole,...”
– Layer Tennis — Week 15, Volley 6
The State of the Union Address Drinking Game 2008 →
Why We Flirt →
via dailymeh
“And then, one day, I had a shock- not one, but two different courses I was...”
– What good is a CS degree? — Brian Hurt
Good stuff.
“if your comp-sci course is easy then you’re either a genius or you’re wasting...”
– Chris Cummer
I’m an Information Science major at a top-tier institution. I bitched and moaned about how tough some of my CS courses have been. But you know what, better that than throw away my tuition dollars.
“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.”
– backups
Wait, Really?
dailymeh:
Python, the programming language, is weird. The following is from an interactive session. Who thought this was a good idea?
>>> True
True
>>> True = False
>>> True
False
>>> print ("True is true" if True else "True is false")
True is false
Now certainly this makes more sense:
>> true
=> true
>> true = false
SyntaxError:...
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe...”
– Mike Huckabee
Let’s make sure we get an amendment in there for stoning. Can’t forget the stoning. Oh, and that eye for an eye thing as well. I want to see lots of one-eyed people walking around.
If Huckabee wins, I’m moving out. Of the country.
GTD Vs 4HWW
travors:
There seems to be some big conflicts between Getting Things Done by David Allen and The 4 Hour Work-Week by Timothy Ferriss. I wonder if anyone has successfully implemented the 2 at the same time?
I was thinking about this the other day, actually. The thing is, there’s a reason these two philosophies seem incompatible: they are. They are fundamentally different ways of going...
iPhone Atlas: iPhone 1.1.3: larger SMS limit,... →
camh:
The iPhone’s SMS limit has been extended to 75,000 (it was previously 1,000), and the Multi-touch keyboard now can register two fingers at once:
This new capability makes it possible to use the shift key like you would on a normal keyboard
This actually lets you hold down shift and type multiple uppercase letters, which comes in handy on occasion. Even more exciting is that...
“Will this be painful? Boy, oh boy, will it ever. It’ll be excruciating....”
– How Should We Teach Computer Science?
“Mint sold its ten-thousandth license a while ago actually.”
– The Shaun Inman (M)interview
10,000+ licenses at $30/license over 2.5 years = $120K+/year. Even accounting for server costs, etc. and the amount of time it must have taken to build a quality product like Mint, that’s still some decent cash.
A New Rule
evn: http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/benchmark_unit/
defunkt: blog post or it didnt happen
NetNewsWire for Mac is now free →
marco:
That’s great news. Since I’m becoming a multi-computer user in 3-5 weeks, the sync capability might win me over from NewsFire.
Goodbye, NewsFire. Hello NNW + iPhone syncing goodness!
“As far as I know, there’s no javascript in our html. If there is...”
– the jSkinny on jQuery via technoweenie
As it should be.
“Fort De Soto Park, Florida — New information has been released regarding the...”
– New details on euthanized sperm whale
The comments are equally as good.
“Jeremy and Sam discuss a customer’s problem exporting contacts from Highrise....”
– Behind the scenes at 37signals: Support
That’s right, folks. Those fine kids over at 37Signals log into your account, download your data and then share it with their entire team. Are you kidding me!?
Super Mario Galaxy: A breakup note →
A wonderful description of everything I love about Galaxy. Within the first half hour of playing Galaxy, I commented that it felt very much like Mario 64 and that Galaxy was a worthy successor.
“I think the field of computation as a whole is moving more toward the kinds of...”
– Larry Wall — Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting…
Smart guy.
“We’ve also seen the rise of PHP, which takes the worse-is-better approach...”
– Larry Wall — Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting…
Rails Is A Ghetto →
Zed has a point, even if slightly exaggerated.