February 2008
53 posts
Okay, I just *had* to do this. →
“The ‘… Is Your New Bicycle’ Meme loves those cupcakes like...”
– isyournewbicycle.com.
I love this meme way too much. This is officially meta-awesome.
It may be a bit wrong that I recognize 90% of the memes.
Git + Amazon S3 = Cheap, incremental /home...
Although I haven’t been able to find anyone working on it, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
I’d gladly pay $2 or $3/month for a complete history of every file in my ~, forever. Add some encryption, maybe, and it’d be great. Reinstalled ubuntu? Just check out your home folder from Amazon, keep on trucking.
Remember, you heard it here first.
Edit: Here’s...
“What bad notations are stifling your progress?”
– research!rsc: The Hideous Name
That last sentence made an impression on me.
Holy crap. I don’t think I’ve taken a single university-level mathematics course (eight, so far, which I feel impresses my friends in the humanities), where I have not begrudged the adopted notation set.
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“Though there are thousands of RSS feeds on the web, most of them are weblogs,...”
– Daring Fireball: Interview: Brent Simmons
Heh. Funny to see Apple suddenly reinventing podcasting a few years later and doing just about that. I don’t think RSS feeds are quite mainstream yet, but Brent Simmons’ vision of “personal newspapers” sounds like it’s only...
Changes - Commercial Diff Software for Macs →
Over the summer, while working at RBC, my manager introduced me to Beyond Compare, which quickly became a life saver since Eclipse’s default diff tool sucks so incredibly hard (Beyond Compare could use some scripting ability, tho).
Now that I think about it, I think a good diff tool should be up there in every developer’s toolkit, alongside good regex support in your editor, and a...
Phill: i cannot relate to my dad in any way like that
Phill: he's mostly made a living by being Extremely Handy
Max: ?
Phill: i.e. he built our house in pt, mostly works as an electrician, wishes he could spend his time building furniture
Max: dude
Max: it sucks
Max: having your dad be better then you at EVERYTHING you enjoy
Max: math science reading books
Max: hes got it all
Max: motherfucker
Max: runs a more secure stable linux....
Phill: :P
“HILLARY CLINTON IS FLIRTING WITH YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER”
– http://hillaryclintonisyournewbicycle.com/. Okay, maybe I should stop posting these.
“MICHELLE OBAMA SHOWED YOU HOW TO OPEN YOUR EYES UNDERWATER”
– MICHELLE OBAMA IS YOUR NEW BICYCLE
IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME →
“Except for the time that the world was destroyed, all of the strips fit into one...”
– Goats (webcomic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exclusive Lifehacker Download: Trick out Google... →
Darn, and for a moment there I thought I was the only person sketching improvements to Reader. Good times. (via J. Pinto)
“Barack Obama set your voice as his ringtone”
– Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
Why does anyone care if Scoble cries? →
This is an incredibly stupid A-List Tech-blogger discussion. All they need to do is quote some comScores traffic values for this story and I’ll be seriously tempted to remove TechCrunch from my Reader.
Talk about straight from a PR release.
Big Huge Thesaurus: Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes... →
“In other words, he is in a class with Dennis Ritchie, Alan Kay, Brendan Eich,...”
– Unqualified Reservations: What’s wrong with CS research via peripatetic axiom. I have to admit I haven’t read either blog posts in their entirety yet.
“I’ve often wondered what aliens might think if they were to visit earth...”
– Slashdot | US To Shoot Down Dying Satellite
“We eat our cold, last-minute supermarket sandwiches. The Italian couple looks...”
– very small array ยป Rome, Italy to Paris, France
Lukas Renggli Takes the Arc Challenge in... →
I think the comments are most insightful.
However, why are Seaside URLs so ugly? My browser ends up with the following appended:
take-the-arc-challenge?_s=gjMRlEQBKYeBnGyN&_k=ArKwoZme
Is there any reason to carry state information as part of the url? How unWeb2.0!
what does the following Unix/Linux command do? →
ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
That is hot.