July 2010
2 posts
RSpec Backtraces
For your sanity, include ‘—backtrace’ in your spec.opts file when using RSpec. It’ll help you a lot when you encounter a deep error in your code and RSpec is only displaying a shallow backtrace.
5 Tips to Become a Productive Coder
Avoid distractions. Programmers are usually computer savvy and will have a variety of applications open all day. Close down your RSS reader, Twitter client, etc and stick to a few hours of solid coding per day.
Avoid pre-mature optimization. You may not even keep the part of code you are writing right now, so why spend the effort to right it and optimize it if you will end up throwing it out...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
Man at the Top of the Food Chain Chooses Bugles →
Wastrel
I just finished reading Esquire’s profile on Usain Bolt and it made me think of Anderson Silva and his recent performance in UFC 112.
I’ve watched the post-fight interview and I don’t believe any of it. Aside from some of the bad translation by his manager, the gist of what Anderson Silva said was that Demian Maia crossed some sort of line. A fight between two Brazilians...
March 2010
3 posts
“I have been trying to explain to my youngest why this is such an exciting...”
– Abraham Verghese. Andrew Sullivan sums up the opinions.
February 2010
2 posts
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January 2010
3 posts
December 2009
2 posts
“Bowing to calls for restraint in tough economic times, Goldman said that its...”
– In the spirit of restraint, I would like to take a 50% pay cut and have the 50%, I didn’t get, paid to me in gold bars. I want to rough it like all the other common folk this year. via (nytimes).
My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable →
October 2009
2 posts
““Calm down. Breathe. This isn’t the end of a beautiful love life...”
– Best quote ever, found on a reddit comment.
Microsoft on the Sidekick Debacle
Microsoft corporate vice president Roz Ho said the data loss problem has been traced to a “system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up.”
ORLY?! The system failure caused data loss in your primary database, then drove to your offsite backup location and then peed on all the other backups? Just admit it: you either didn’t have backups or your backups were stored...
September 2009
8 posts
I am a Conservative
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration...
WatchI have to do one more, I’m dying over here. This one is with Natalie Portman.
WatchBetween Two Ferns with Charlize Theron and the dude from The Hangover.
WatchZe Frank on the healthcare debate.
August 2009
16 posts
“Slipping Griffin’s heavy (and slow) punches with ease, he countered...”
– ESPN on Anderson Silva v Forrest Griffin
Optimism Tax
From time to time it seems your good intentions are taken for granted. Sometimes you are exploited and taken advantage of resulting in a loss of monies and/or personal things. You are then left with the choice: lose your faith and trust in mankind and express a general distrust toward everyone, or accept the loss as a tax to maintain your optimism and belief that man is overall good. The former...
July 2009
8 posts
WatchAmazing HD video of the world’s second largest aquarium.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft...”
– Melinda Gates’ husband
Windfall profits and resentment →
Well written article about the recent profit postings in Wall Street.
Teehan+Lax Demonstrate @font-face in CSS3 →
This page looks awesome. I can’t wait.
IE6 Must Die →
Amen.
