October 2011
33 posts
I forgot how productive I was when I had Maiden turned up on my headphones so loud I forgot I was in the office. I should start expensing my iTunes purchases.
Oct 28th
Oct 28th
Oct 28th
“[Obama’s] never been a part of the black experience in America.”
– Except for, you know, that whole being the first black President thing, and all. (Source) Oi vey.
Oct 28th
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Happiness is 45lbs of boy saying, “Yes, daddy!” before running into his room and turning out his light before we have dinner.
Oct 28th
Oct 27th
“Well, next time I hear about how vets fight to protect our rights, I’ll...”
– Twitter / @KagroX
Oct 27th
Oct 26th
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I don’t care about tabs v. spaces. I don’t care about line length. I don’t care about line breaks. I don’t care which line the brace goes on. The problem is not the code. The problem is your editor. This is 2011. Upgrade. Adjust. Move with the times. Focus on the code and not how pretty it looks.
Oct 25th
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What do you call someone ambivilant about Google’s social network? Nonplussed.
Oct 24th
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It’s always a good feeling when a pull request is accepted on an open source project, even if it’s just a one-line fix.
Oct 24th
Perl: how to make a hammer a Swiss army knife.
Oct 21st
SISO: Stupid In, Stupid Out
Oct 21st
Imagine: Siri connected to an ActiveHome app which connects to a desktop which has an ActiveHome controller. “Siri, turn on the living room lights, please.” OMGWANT
Oct 17th
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OMGLOLWTF →
Oct 16th
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WatchWatch
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Freaking Awesome. →
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Austin Mobile Dev Appiction Shuttered →
ungenius: The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that Appiction.com has been locked out of their office and their employees staged a mass walkout. If you have to run to the press to assure people you’re not out of business, chances are you’re out of business. I had the misfortune of working for these people. In fact, they still owe me money. I found it to be the most utterly disagreeable...
Oct 13th
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Initial reports are: upgrading to iOS 5 doesn’t work. Everyone is having to restore. You know, maybe if Apple let us devs test upgrades instead of being forced to restore for every version we could have helped catch that. Just a thought, Apple.
Oct 13th
Can you have a Case of the Tuesdays?
The usual answer to “What was I thinking?” is “I wasn’t.”
Oct 11th
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UNIX-Haters Handbook →
For the uninitiated (PDF link).
Oct 10th
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I’m really loving database routers in Django. I can import from my old Drupal site in MySQL (via inspect-generated models) and then save the converted ones to Postgres, all by telling Django which models are on which database. Loving. It.
Oct 10th
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… and how did he wake up? “Hi-ho, the derry-o, the farmer in the dell…” Silly kid. I love him.
Oct 9th
Is he asleep? Of course not. He’s singing. “I’ve got a baby bumblebee…”
Oct 9th
Just remembered VoicePrint (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50612). Imagine if Siri could tell who was talking and customize responses based on that? You’re welcome, Apple. Please make it. Thanks.
Oct 8th
Rain. Huh.
Oct 8th
I preordered the Jobs biography in iBooks. Something about that just feels oddly right.
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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It's Time to Go
“We don’t expect to pay nothing to ride the train, it’s the same thing with a checking account,” [Nessa Feddis, vice president and senior counsel of the American Bankers Association] said. No. It’s not remotely the same. The train is pure service and doesn’t make money because you’re riding it. It doesn’t gain interest on your ass being in the...
Oct 5th
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Wait, wait, apple.com is down, but store.apple.com is up? OPPOSITE DAY!
Oct 4th
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“Daddy, I made a huge fart. It was like a volcano!”
– Asher
Oct 4th