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"Very few programmers can go from 0 to code at the drop of a hat. In general,..."

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:56:57 GMT

"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

[Reposted from clifford]

Clients From Hell

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:25:58 GMT

Clients From Hell

"I see the people that do the real work and what's really sad, in a way, is th..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:18:32 GMT

I 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

–A quote from Before Sunset, which struck me as perfectly fitting to ...well, hackers

"A man once criticized Picasso for creating unrealistic art. Picasso asked him..."

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:17:20 GMT

"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?""

"Turn the music up in your car or home stereo to a pretty strong (but good) vo..."

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:48:14 GMT

Turn 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

–Creating Passionate Users: iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model

"Lua is like a really experienced prostitute. Not necessarily beautiful, but ..."

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:53:20 GMT

"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

"Connection pooling in ActiveRecord is an ugly hack. It works OK with Rails b..."

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:10:41 GMT

"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

"...It [H.261] included such well-established concepts as YCbCr color represen..."

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:52:57 GMT

"...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

(Image)

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:50:50 GMT

YouTube - The Downfall of Agile Hitler: "Now I hearwe haven't even ran a sing...

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:21:44 GMT

YouTube - The Downfall of Agile Hitler: "Now I hearwe haven't even ran a single test since Iteration #3!"

YAML for ObjC

Wed, 13 May 2009 19:22:42 GMT

http://will.thimbleby.net/yaml.html

I have no idea why this is making news around. This madness was always one li...

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:21:56 GMT

[Reposted from antifuchs]

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 :)

Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry is a jQuery plugin that extends input fiel...

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:57:09 GMT

Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry is a jQuery plugin that extends input fields with facebook-style auto-complete tokenizer

Raphaël—JavaScript Library

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:18:44 GMT

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

http://raphaeljs.com/

Today oneup and I started work on iPhone version of Cute Wars sorry for the f...

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:18:15 GMT

Today oneup and I started work on iPhone version of Cute Wars sorry for the flipped video, it's photobooth)

[Reposted from esad]

I wrote this little script that will enter all subdirectories containing git ...

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:52:10 GMT

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.

Pong (ZIP, 105.6 KB)

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:57:20 GMT

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...

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:54:44 GMT

Emir and I opened this month's "one night one game" challenge by writing Pong in Cocoa/OpenGL

Learning Cocoa: here's my first app, solving the skyline problem

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:35:13 GMT

Learning Cocoa: here's my first app, solving the skyline problem

"I am perfectly capable of understanding what header files are, how to manuall..."

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:28:58 GMT

"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

Hack && Ship development process

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:46:58 GMT

Hack && Ship development process

Authentication via Keystroke Dynamics (PDF, 297.7 KB)

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:58:59 GMT

by Fabian Monrose and Aviel Rubin

Ultra II SD Icon (ZIP, 55.9 KB)

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:49:18 GMT

Just made a Mac OS X custom drive icon for my Ultra II SD Card

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:48:15 GMT

Just made a Mac OS X custom drive icon for my Ultra II SD Card

Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems by Gabriela Ochoa

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:35:40 GMT

Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems by Gabriela Ochoa

Seen on codebase, which btw. looks great

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:39:54 GMT

Seen on codebase, which btw. looks great

It's the first piece of shareware I bought

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:22:34 GMT

It's the first piece of shareware I bought

Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:28:03 GMT

Nice marketing idea

http://current.com/items/89695081/delete_10_facebook_friends_get_a_free_whopper.htm

Now all your photos can look artifical: "Smile Capture recognizes the precise...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:00:10 GMT

Now all your photos can look artifical: "Smile Capture recognizes the precise moment a subject smiles and releases the shutter automatically" (via Pentax Optio W60 Highlights)

Removing a git submodule

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:13:03 GMT

Unfortunately, man git-submodule (at least version 1.6.0.4) says nothing about removing a module, so you'll have to do it manually:

Remove module from .gitmodules and .git/config
git rm path/to/submodule
Commit

Vybrio, ClearView, AveraBrite, TrueLife, Diamond Brite, VibrantView, DuraBrit...

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:29:56 GMT

Vybrio, ClearView, AveraBrite, TrueLife, Diamond Brite, VibrantView, DuraBrite ... it's incredible how every company has its own marketing term for a glossy display

I was missing my MiscFixed font for terminal, so I went and converted 6x13 fr...

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:50:45 GMT

I was missing my MiscFixed font for terminal, so I went and converted 6x13 from .bdf (unicode version is available here) to .dfont using fontforge (there's a macport!), and then tweaked the LSCOLORS with this handy webapp

JS-909

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:33:51 GMT

A drum machine in javascript!

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/JS-909/

Fixtureless datas with Machinist and Sham:

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:43:52 GMT

Fixtureless datas with Machinist and Sham:

Post.blueprint do
  title "Hello world" 
  text "<p>Hello there</p>"*3
  slug "some-slug" 
  published_on Date.today
end

Solving the "loose GPU" problem that seems to be common on Thinkpad T4x model...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:42:02 GMT

Solving the "loose GPU" problem that seems to be common on Thinkpad T4x models (responsible for that redish garbage I'm seeing all accross the screen)

.irbrc

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:54:34 GMT

lots of cool stuff in this guy's .irbrc

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=show:JCaujrLpc7Y:PQRRJvuDmpg:JCaujrLpc7Y&sa=N&ct=rd&cs_p=git://github.com/xaviershay/dotfiles.git&cs_f=irbrc

Random rails discovery: you can use Model.first and Model.last for what I used Model.find(:first) and Model.find(:all).last for

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:44:13 GMT

Random rails discovery: you can use Model.first and Model.last for what I used Model.find(:first) and Model.find(:all).last for
Handy for debugging from console

Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: Gem Dependencies

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:38:38 GMT

Basically, you can now specify your gem dependencies in environment.rb with something like:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config| 
  # Require the latest version of haml
  config.gem "haml"
end

and then you can use rake gems:install and rake gems:unpack

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/4/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-gem-dependencies

Basic OmniGraffle stencil for iPhone web apps, including standard components ...

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:27:36 GMT

Basic OmniGraffle stencil for iPhone web apps, including standard components (fields, buttons, dialogs, lists, etc). Cocoa apps stencil is coming soon.

http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/358

[Reposted from tupalo]

Designing the UI of Things for iPhone — I want those COPIC markers!

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:38 GMT

Designing the UI of Things for iPhone — I want those COPIC markers!