{Funner} Brings it Hard

RSpec Backtraces

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:55:09 -0400

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

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:56:36 -0400

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 anyway?
Write DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) code where possible. Don’t get carried away though. Err on the side of code readability over DRY where possible.
Write tests. Fixing a bug? Write a test. Added a new feature? Write a test. Don’t worry so much about TDD, BDD, or xDD. It’s more important that you write the tests rather then when.
Write modular code. If you find yourself writing a lot of comments inside of your methods, you should probably break them up into separate methods.

That’s it. A lot of the things described may actually take you a little bit longer, but they all pay dividends. Bug fixes, re-factoring, and general maintainability will all greatly improve.

What if we travelled back in time and launched a company?

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:25:59 -0400

What if we travelled back in time and launched a company?

I really like this AT&T commercial about turning 5 again.

Wed, 05 May 2010 18:50:29 -0400

I really like this AT&T commercial about turning 5 again.

Man at the Top of the Food Chain Chooses Bugles

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:50:59 -0400

Man at the Top of the Food Chain Chooses Bugles

Wastrel

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:06:02 -0400

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 commands a little more-than-average respect and Maia didn’t deliver.

Maybe Anderson believes this, but I don’t.

I think it’s simply that Anderson is bored. He’s dominated 185 and there is no one left that poses any threat. If he doesn’t knock out or submit someone in two rounds, he’s simply not interested. We’ve seen this happen last time he fought a Brazilian ground-gamer.

For prodigies like Usain Bolt and Anderson Silva, their talents are so much above their peers that they naturally give away less of their respect for that action. When this happens, the non-prodigies are always up in arms about the whole thing. They can’t believe these cocky, “new” kids aren’t acting in the same way the past greats did.

Usain Bolt’s dance after his performance in China may have been inappropriate to some and Anderson’s dancing in the ring in UFC 112 may have been viewed as show-boating by others. However, place a massive roadblock on one of these men’s doorstep and you will see their best performance. Once they give you that, you will view their dancing as well-deserved celebration.

"I have been trying to explain to my youngest why this is such an exciting moment: front line..."

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:25:13 -0400

“I have been trying to explain to my youngest why this is such an exciting moment: front line soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq take personal risks, put their lives on the line. But so few politicians put their careers on the line, even though they make decisions that have an impact on soldiers. President Obama (and to some degree every Democrat who supports this bill) is putting his political career on the line. The idea that you might do what you think is right and pay a penalty has been so foreign to politics that it surprises us when we see it. I think my son is surprised to hear all this. He assumes at 12 years of age that people, especially people we elect, go to Washington to do the right thing.”

- Abraham Verghese. Andrew Sullivan sums up the opinions.

My twitter wallpaper. 1920x1200 res

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:09:33 -0400

My twitter wallpaper. 1920x1200 res

davidkaneda: Hot Pockets Ingredients by Justin Perricone...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:04:05 -0400

davidkaneda:

Hot Pockets Ingredients by Justin Perricone (via sujay)

Video

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:48:26 -0500

(via tmblg)

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:42:07 -0500

(via tmblg)

Eat More Crap

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:14:28 -0500

Eat More Crap

Clip from Big Bang Theory with the laugh track removed. Feels...

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:30:11 -0500

Clip from Big Bang Theory with the laugh track removed. Feels really awkward not being told when to laugh…

Screen shot of the lone windows PC on my network. It’s a...

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:09:33 -0500

Screen shot of the lone windows PC on my network. It’s a virtual one at that.

"Bowing to calls for restraint in tough economic times, Goldman said that its most senior executives..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:23:00 -0500

“Bowing to calls for restraint in tough economic times, Goldman said that its most senior executives would forgo cash bonuses this year. Instead, the 30 executives will be paid in the form of long-term stock”

- 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

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:37 -0500

My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable

"“Calm down. Breathe. This isn’t the end of a beautiful love life that ended suddenly,..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:55:58 -0400

“

“Calm down. Breathe. This isn’t the end of a beautiful love life that ended suddenly, this is the beginning of the rest of your goddam life, and it’s only going to get better from here. You’re free. Realize that. This girl wanted to marry you, and she’s willing to fuck some dipshit behind your back?

You dodged a massive fucking bullet, man. The really huge Super Mario kind with the eyes on the side, where you had to run and duck into the little divit to avoid shrinking. You did that. You got into that divit, and you’re still super sized, and you can break blocks with your face. Now get out there and step on some fucking turtles”

”

- Best quote ever, found on a reddit comment.

Microsoft on the Sidekick Debacle

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:18:21 -0400

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 in the same place as your original data. In which case, YOU DIDN’T HAVE BACKUPS!

I am a Conservative

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:01:42 -0400

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 determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level
determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to the internet — which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration — and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.

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I have to do one more, I’m dying over here. This one is...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:51 -0400

I have to do one more, I’m dying over here. This one is with Natalie Portman.