I Don’t Know. Bob. OK? This Post Is Called ‘Bob’. Happy Now? God! (1)
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Dad Gone Mad (6)
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I’d like to sit down with the shitfuck who invented canker sores and give him a piece of my mind. I mean seriously: what the hell was he thinking? What kind of psychopath comes up with a mouth sore that plants itself on the inside of the lips so that every time it comes in contact with a piece of food it feels like you’re being stung with extreme malice by an angry colony of ...
The Weekly Source Code 34 - The Rise of F# (12)
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First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fourth in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." F#, everyone is agog over F# and getting all functional. Again. ;) The F# September 2008 CTP came out a few weeks back and folks I'm talking to are digging it. Here's the goal: "F# developed as ...
Bone-in New York Strip with Cacao Soy Gastrique (1)
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Slightly less adventurous than the Darjeeling Risotto, but nowhere near run of the mill. Concept was well marbled beef ^ Sherry gastrique += (reduced soy sauce + premium unalkalized cocoa powder), or something like that. I've experimented with chocolate and beef before, so there was some history here to inform this experiment.The preparation involved 1/8 cup golden brown sugar heated in a small sauce pan over high heat to the point of liquification and gentle ...
Killing our enthusiasm (10)
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Craig Hockenberry: You should also be aware that much of the discontent is being masked by the NDA that’s currently in place. I, and many others, do not want to anger Apple and there are no forums to voice our concerns privately. Because of the NDA, and because of some unpublicized incidents of petty intimidation from people at Apple to iPhone developers, there is a climate of fear in the Mac/iPhone developer community. You cannot ...
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Dylan Bennett said:
I hate to drag out a stale argument, but it bears another look... If Microsoft did this with Windows Mobile, the outcry would be DEAFENING. As bad as WM is, its many faults are made up in spades when you compare its development atmosphere to that of the iPhone. I actually had a mote of interest in doing iPhone development at one point, but this among other things has killed that spark, buried it under 6 feet of rubble, and then 63 moose came over and took a dump on the whole mess.
Back To Basics: Algorithms and Going Back To Virtual School (15)
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Before I graduated from College/University I was convinced that school was for lamers. Then I graduated from school and decided that NOT going to school was for lamers. That shows you what a wishy-washy person *I* am. ;) School is for some folks and not for others. Wear the shoe that fits you best. Totally random retrospective self-focused aside: I graduated from OIT with a BS in Software Engineering in 2003. Yes, that's 2003. It ...
1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread (4)
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I had so much fun reading the Casa Bonita comments from fellow Denverites and ex-Denverites that I wanted to continue the conversation. Consider this an open thread about Denver popular culture. Suggested topics for starters: Jakes Jabbs, Starr Yelland, KWGN channel 2, Celebrity Sports Center, The Yum Yum Tree, Blinky's Fun Club, Buffalo Bill Museum, Heritage Square.
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Tim said:
@noah - wow, completely forgot about Blinky. He's a Hobo Clown!
I knew it (1)
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We’ve all long suspected that there was something in the water of Washington D.C. that caused everyone who moved there to become morons. Well, now we know- it was lead. Which explains a lot. I’ve been told that one of the reasons Rome fell as an empire is that they used lead to build their aqueducts. Which lead to wide-scale lead poisoning with the resultant stupidity. Fortunately, we’re not stupid enough to make our water ...
The Open-Closed Principle for Languages with Open Classes (4)
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We’ve been having a discussion inside Object Mentor World Design Headquarters about the meaning of the OCP for dynamic languages, like Ruby, with open classes. For example, in Ruby it’s normal to define a class or module, e.g., # foo.rb class Foo def method1 *args ... end end and later re-open the class and add (or redefine) methods, # foo2.rb class Foo def method2 *args ... end end Users of Foo see all the methods, ...
LED Football for the iPhone (19)
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Mark Helmuth has developed a 1970s-style electronic football game for the iPhone. I wonder if it also emulates the sound of me crying when my older brother won't let me have a turn. Rob has the details over at Boing Boing Gadgets. iNostalgia! Old-school Football on iPhone (BB Gadgets)
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Steve said:
My heart skipped a beat when I saw this. Obviously the killer app for the iPhone.
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seanness said:
I was adicted to this game! Nice!
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Squirrel Girl said:
OMG I loved this game! Many of hours of fun competing/taking turns with my brothers.
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tayknight said:
awww. how cute.
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Paul said:
Oh my God. I must buy an iPhone now, just to get this game.
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Mark said:
cool! i used to play this game for hours
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Mike said:
this is completely BAD-ASS!
Optimize Large MySQL Table Queries with Indexes (1)
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I have been using the magic of Rails for a lot lately but some of those apps are starting to take off and get slow. It isn't Rails however it is MySQL queries to big tables. You don't have to be a MySQL rocket scientist to really make a huge difference. Want to improve queries to your big tables? Add indexes for the columns you use most in your where clause. 1. Turn on slow ...
RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together (12)
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life (153)
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My recent post, Explaining REST To Damien Katz, led to some insightful comments from Dave Winer and Tim Bray about what proponents of building RESTful Web services can learn from remote procedure call (RPC) technologies like SOAP and XML-RPC. In his post, Dare left something out (and it's important) Dave Winer wrote Really ought to include it in your thinking, Dare and everyone else. You're missing out on something that works really well. You should ...
Microsoft: We're not "cool enough" for Mac OS X (53)
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Filed under: Humor, OS, Odds and ends If you thought the new Get a Mac ads were spot-on or funny, then you will definitely get a kick out of this. On Microsoft's Photosynth website, they admit something that we've known for years: They're not cool enough to run on Macs. "Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but ...
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vanlandw said:
Microsoft is so stupid..
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Todd Albertson said:
Enough said...
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Bill said:
exact same error message on Linux... ouch.
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Nick said:
you sir, is too cool to shop in our stores. So please leave.
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enc said:
new trademark: not cool enough. or "my OS is too sexy for your photosynch"
Terminal Tips: Disable Dashboard - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (14)
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Filed under: OS, Hacks, Terminal Tips If you are the type of person that sees Dashboard as an application that just wastes space in your Dock (and an icon on your keyboard), then why not disable it? It is very easy to disable Dashboard; just type in the following command in Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities): defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YESYou must restart the Dock in order for this hack to work, so type "killall ...
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Joe Maller said:
I basically never use dashboard anymore, might as well just disable it outright and save the RAM
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px said:
huzzah! one less annoyance.
How Facebook Keeps Memcached Consistent Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers (18)
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Last year I wrote a blog post entitled When Databases Lie: Consistency vs. Availability in Distributed Systems where I talked about the kinds of problems Web applications face when trying to keep data consistent across multiple databases spread out across the world. Jason Sobel, a developer at Facebook has some details on how they've customized MySQL to solve a variation of the problem I posed in a blog post entitled Scaling Out where he writes ...
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slacy said:
This is the exact analog of what happens on a single machine with dual CPUs and no shared cache. When CPU A writes to RAM, CPU B is snooping on the address bus and comparing the addresses of its cached items. If there's a match, then it invalidates its local cache. Most single-die, dual-core CPUs these days have a single shared instructio/data cache to avoid having to do this, but when you have multiple dies, there's no way to avoid this that I know of.
How to Sell Your Photography - Sales Copy - TWIP (3)
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Photo by Scott Bourne Interested in selling your photos? You might want to create a brochure, which could also double as website or other sales copy that promotes your photography. But if you’re new to sales, you might not know where to start. Here is a worksheet you can use to start brainstorming what your promotional content should include… —– Fill out each section —– 1) What is the unique selling point of your photography? ...
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