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January 09 2010
“ Very few programmers can go from 0 to code at the drop of a hat. In general, we tend to be more akin to locomotives than ferraris; it may take us awhile to get started, but once we hit our stride we can get an impressive amount of work done. Unfortunately, it's very hard to get into a programming zone when your train of thought is constantly being derailed by clients, managers, and fellow programmers. ”— Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers
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cliffordNovember 22 2009
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Clients From Hell
October 31 2009
“— A quote from Before Sunset, which struck me as perfectly fitting to ...well, hackersI see the people that do the real work and what's really sad, in a way, is that... the people that are the most giving, hard working and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.They don't see the interest in superficial rewards,they don't care if their name ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they're in the moment”
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September 27 2009
“ A man once criticized Picasso for creating unrealistic art. Picasso asked him: "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. Picasso observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no colour but only shades of gray?" ”
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August 19 2009
“— Creating Passionate Users: iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience ModelTurn the music up in your car or home stereo to a pretty strong (but good) volume. Ask a friend to join you. At one point, when they're in the flow, cut the sound completely. Kill the power. Notice their response. Now do it again, but this time fade the volume.
This is not a trivial thing.
And although Apple and the iPhone certainly aren't the first to use this kind of "absence-of-abruptness" to the user experience, they've done it in an elegant, subtle, flow-supporting, enchanting way
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July 08 2009
“ Lua is like a really experienced prostitute. Not necessarily beautiful, but can do all the tricks and can get the job done efficiently and inexpensively. ”— A comment on Hacker News - Lua vs Ruby benchmarks
June 11 2009
“ Connection pooling in ActiveRecord is an ugly hack. It works OK with Rails because ActionController removes the current thread's connection from the pool after every request. If you use another framework, ActiveRecord will pause every few requests because it will have a connection pool timeout error. ”— jeremyevans #sequel -- That's why you'll probably need ActiveRecord::Base.clear_reloadable_connections! after every request in sinatra
June 05 2009
“ ...It [H.261] included such well-established concepts as YCbCr color representation, the 4:2:0 sampling format, 8-bit sample precision, 16x16 macroblocks, block-wise motion compensation, 8x8 block-wise discrete cosine transformation, zig-zag coefficient scanning, scalar quantization, run+value symbol mapping and variable-length coding... ”— Video codecs are serious business
May 24 2009
May 18 2009
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YouTube - The Downfall of Agile Hitler: "Now I hearwe haven't even ran a single test since Iteration #3!"
May 13 2009
May 12 2009
I have no idea why this is making news around. This madness was always one line away: namely require 'open-uri'; eval open("http://...").read achieves the very same thing. Of course, you can always jump out of the window and kill yourself, that too is only few steps away :)
May 11 2009
Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry is a jQuery plugin that extends input fields with facebook-style auto-complete tokenizer
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May 07 2009
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library
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Today oneup and I started work on iPhone version of Cute Wars sorry for the flipped video, it's photobooth)
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esadFebruary 13 2009
I wrote this little script that will enter all subdirectories containing git repos and execute "git pull" there, stopping on first unsuccessful (exit code != 0) pull. It's useful for cases where you're not using submodules and have your projects grouped into directories for some reason.
February 03 2009
Pong
(ZIP, 105.6 KB)
for Mac OSX (see below)
Player 1: arrow keys (left/right)
Player 2: z-left, x-right
No physics for now, so it will be quite a boring game
Emir and I opened this month's "one night one game" challenge by writing Pong in Cocoa/OpenGL
January 30 2009
Learning Cocoa: here's my first app, solving the skyline problem
January 29 2009
“ I am perfectly capable of understanding what header files are, how to manually manage memory (yikes!), pointers, I even got how the named parameters that are not actually named parameters work. What I don’t understand is why I should have to do all this given that it’s the year 2008, and not 1988 ”— This guy's comment on Objective-C (iPhone Development with Ruby Digital Sanctum) really sums it up
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