November 2009
9 posts
Procrastination and Perfectionism →
Procrastinating was a way of giving myself permission to do a less than perfect job on a task that didn’t require a perfect job.
The followup to Structured Procrastination.
Structured Procrastination →
This may sound a bit lighthearted, but I would imagine it could be a good way to get things done for many people, myself included.
“If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data...”
– [FoRK] Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
EPIC RANT.
WatchWinners of Harmox’s A Cappella Contest
from When everyone’s in tune
“The Acme::Don’t module provides a don’t command, which is the...”
– Acme::Don’t
via @ninh
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ruby -rubygems
You know, I’ve always wondered why requiring a library on the command line is ruby -r library but you can require rubygems with ruby -rubygems. Here’s why:
[rubygems-1.3.5] cat lib/ubygems.rb
# This file allows for the running of rubygems with a nice
# command line look-and-feel: ruby -rubygems foo.rb
#--
# Copyright 2006 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich and others.
# All...
me: Any idea what's going on with [Redacted]?
@philnash: you mean the fact that it's going down and up like a bulimic's lunch?