January 2009
37 posts
“As with campers at campsites, the older partners of younger people should always...”
– Portland Mercury | Features | The Tea and Sympathy Rule
orly?
court3nay : make sure you use FasterCSV i think it's faster
“I’m not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.”
– The $300 Million Button
“The crazy man with a gun part of his story sounds an awful lot like the...”
– BOOM HEADSHOT | uncov
“I now almost looked forward to situations that would normally be frustrating,...”
– Zappos Blogs: CEO and COO Blog: How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person
Forcing Apple Mail to use Gmail's Junk folder...
“All of these things were offpsring of a giant orgy in the Valley, where nobody...”
– Digg Layoffs Mean More than Just Cost Cutting | uncov
Taming Apple Mail's IMAP Folder Hierarchy With...
I have been in the process of migrating about seven email accounts across ten domains I manage from a three- or four-year old postfix+dovecot install to Google Apps for Your Domain. Everybody whose email I manage uses Apple Mail and most of them are not technically savvy enough to adapt to new methods quicky. Rather than encourage them to use the Gmail web interface, I figured setting up IMAP...
“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested,...”
– The Raw Story | Limbaugh’s desire for Obama to ‘fail’ is ‘arguably treasonous’: Stewart
now in new DHH flavor!
crhis2: well, i didnt attend the conference :-P
sandbags: me either
sandbags: being bored of huge, bland, expensive conferences
chris2: it also keeps the business people out :)
sandbags: actually i think that's the best reason to keep RailsConf
sandbags: as a magnet for those types
sandbags: keep them safely squirreled away somewhere
technomancy: honeypot?
sandbags: technomancy: exactly
sandbags: DHH flavoured flypaper
trevor: fucking dog. currently staring at an empty spot in the room and growling.
will: ninjas dude
“it’s with nothing but love and heartfelt concern that I inform you that walking...”
– Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » DM of the Rings LVIII:It is a Silly Place
“django - the web framework for ponies with magical powers”
– djangopony - Magic that can’t be removed. via @court3nay
ezmobius: ***link removed to deny google juice*** haha read about how they transalted the big rails app top django
ezmobius: they run the ruby app and copy paste view source from a browser to make django templates
evilchelu: ***link removed to deny google juice*** rofl
ezmobius: awesome
evilchelu: these guys kick ass :)
evilchelu: i think they're going for a steven colbert
evilchelu: :)
imajes_: "For instance, we are converting 289,000 lines of Ruby code into Django code and 20% of the effort resulted in about 1000 lines of Django code. Let's face it, if you had the job of maintaining 289,000 lines of code you might have an easier job if you really only had to learn what 5000 or 10000 lines of code than 289,000 lines of code."
imajes_: oh
imajes_: that's sweet.
mattly: i want to know where this mythical 289kloc app came from
mattly: what it does
rickbradley: mattly: I think I've audited it
mattly: what it ate for breakfast
mattly: who its slept with
rickbradley: it does dick-all but takes money from wallets
rickbradley: and if you delete it down to 0 loc the world is a better place
imajes_: hehe
aniero: 289k lines of ruby? hot damn
jamesgolick: kinda hard to believe
foca: dude, it's the 'end'
aniero: lol
foca: that's why python is shorter
jamesgolick: "The ugly side of Ruby on Rails is the fact that you have to write a ton of code in Ruby to make your Ruby App functional. Ruby may be fun to write but it should be fun to write because you will be writing far more Ruby code than Python code to achieve the same functionality."
foca: well, true, look at this guys who wrote a 289kloc ruby app, which was turned into a 10kloc python app
foca: it's obviously ruby's problem
jamesgolick: omg, you're right
“f you program only in the most popular programming language, you have made...”
– Giles Bowkett: Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something
12:05 PM
kyle has entered the room
court3nay has entered the room
trevor has entered the room
mattly has entered the room
rick: what, did school just get out
“From what I understand about Intrade, however, a lot of the money that is to be...”
– FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: What Are the Chances of a Depression?
kyle: I dunno, I wish I knew years ago that all these fucks at SXSW have no idea what they're doing
kyle: I always thought it was like, professionals
kyle: but when the icanhascheezeburger crew comes off as the most professional of the bunch
kyle: holy shit
jbarnette: our workplace atmosphere is so awesome now
tenderlove: oh ya
tenderlove: it's a lemon party waiting to happen
“In other words, what the people want are stoned kids having sex on bullet...”
– Give the people what they want! - Boing Boing
justin: yeah, I started to do [a new screencast], but I didn't want to be like: "Gaaawd, we got us some fine pixels on this here screen".
“the Pythagorean Theorem is calling, and it wants to know if you’ve heard of it....”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Jackass of the Week: John Cox
“it’ll be nice to have more cool stuff on FB in the long run, but I’m...”
– Facebook Digs Deeper into the Black Hole of Custom Markup - Ideas For Dozens
“How, in 2009, do you fuck up your javascript so badly that you can’t get...”
– Microsoft is not a web company | Seldo.Com Blog
kyle: http://www.prettyloaded.com/
kyle: gallery of flash loaders
kyle: which features a flash loader
kyle: [universe implode]
court3nay: sup dawg
court3nay: we heard you like flash loaders
“the jailbreak scene is actually a boon to investigators, since jailbreak tools...”
– Macworld.Ars: State of Mac data forensics
“For our European readers, you’re probably not familiar with Idaho. Lets...”
– blog | analogindustries.com
“the only thing worse than a pie chart is several of them”
– Google Analytics: The goggles, they do nothing! | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
rabble: all i know is i want propane on my iphone
trevor: I know
trevor: As soon as my new pony gets here (the one with the jetpacks on its legs) I'll get him to port Propane to the iPhone.
mattly: trevor: sweet, is the jetpack pony you have on order the one i saw in the skymall catalog?
Jeremy M.: hahaha
trevor: yeah, I got the "shits rainbows" option too
mattly: nice
Nicole: they don't even offer that in the states, lucky bastard
trevor: Nicole: yeah, California's emissions laws are the problem - they're all freaked out over the half-life of rainbow shit. We just recycle it up here in Canada - makes great sweaters.
rick: your sweaters are made from pony rainbow shit?
trevor: *recycled*
trevor: I'd never wear one made from pure pony rainbow shit - that would be stupid
Jeremy M.: plainly a cashmere, pony shit blend is the most luxuirous option
Jeremy M.: though when i was rubyfringe i saw a few fine ones made of an alpaca/pony shit blend that were just as a soft and much more affordable
trevor: ooh... never had one of those - sounds plush. All of mine are 65% PRS, 30% Rayon and 5% GTC (ground toenail clippings)
Jeremy M.: ooo stretchy yet disconcertingly durable
trevor: indeed
mattly: eh they're using the half-life of pony rainbow shit as an excuse to keep it illegal, the real problem is that teenagers will smoke it
trevor: YOU CAN SMOKE IT?
mattly: kinda like how you can't grow hemp to make sweaters or paper from
mattly: kids down here will smoke anything
mattly: the problem with the PRS is that is has to be refined properly, and that's a process as volatile as making meth
mattly: i think i read something about some kids up in NoPo that blew up their whole neighborhood
mattly: i got prince of persia, fable 2, oblivion and mass effect for christmas
mattly: from people who obviously never want to see me again
“They go up to your_boss, this is some guy who doesn’t have a clue, and...”
– Zed Shaw: The ACL is Dead @ CUSEC 2008
“If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our...”
– Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
“go design a multi-node query system that is simple and robust to errors. One of...”
– CouchDB from Far Away
#textmate
mattly: otoh i just managed to unbind backspace in emacs
mattly: so who knows
mattly: the drugs wore off about half an hour after i left the hospital
mattly: and fred meyer screwed up my perscription
mattly: so then i'm in death and kittens mode
giles: I do not understand this death and kittens thing
giles: these things appear to be very different from one another
giles:
mattly: giles: the only two things i can think about when in that much pain