2008

Design By Humans 20% Off Referral Code +...

I got this in my email today so I thought, why not? Use this 20% off referral code and I’ll...

Am I the only one who went “Aaaaaah, he’s going...

Firefox 3 Download MIrrors

I haven’t been able to download the new Firefox 3 package all morning so I went hunting for...

Fedora mirrors being wonky

This post is mostly so I remember this myself but when I logged into my VPS this evening and tried...

America’s Joyous Future [via Defiler in #nyc.rb]

Here’s an awesome annotated ink drawing floor plan of...

This is from namecheap.com’s account profile page...

Seriously…. [xkcd]

I think my equivalent would be some sort...

hugehuge: Recumbent 3 a.m. conversation a few days ago: She [sincerely and without warning]: I’m...

I walked right into one of the best...

Me: It's pretty cool that 7 of my 397 facebook friends were born on 5/25. That's about 6.5 times the expected birthday collision.
Cliff: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD980.html and http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/
Me: two is easy... but seven? that makes it interesting.
Cliff: and that's what she said.

The Telectroscope, a really neat art installation by Paul St. George that is operational from today...

I feel like I was always either a second-row or a back-row...

Powerset hooks people up at launch parties.

A little downtime

Some of the services I run, including the calais text tagger, will be down for a little while as...

After

Before

End of the 'Stache

As much as I was initially hesitant, I truly enjoyed the last 4 months wearing a mustache as a...

QR Code

QR code for opensynapse.net. You can also make one for your url, phone number, sms, or just some...

Powerset

YES!

Great BBC Article Title: "Great tits cope...

Mission Hipsters > Williamsburg Hipsters

I need help choosing a new laptop bag

So I’m in the market for a new laptop bag for my 15” MBPs. I really like my Timbuk2...

Knife Registration in China

Is it just me or does everyone else also think this is an...

JetBlue, this is either creepy or clairvoyant. [from...

Voice changing Dalek helmet. Awesome! [via]

Wiffiti

I completely forgot about Wiffiti. I got back it to it today. Let’s see if this works:

Who needs Inbox Zero when you can have Inbox Ten Thousand!

Such an awesome menu idea: Miracle of Science (via Laughing...

Damn you, Python. You and your zillion libraries. (xkcd)

Facebook Lexicon

I found an interesting visualization on Facebook a few minutes ago. If you’re on fb, check it...

I really wish that more transit providers would add...

Eubonicode

Wow, Jorge is on a roll with these. (PHD Comics

til we meet by cyboargninja (via anarchaia)

Bypassing Facebook App Invite Pages

Jane pointed this bookmarklet, which allows you to skip past any of those pesky invite screens that...

Oh, craigslist, you can be so wonderful. So let’s...

World's Largest Hadoop cluster

*sigh* Recruiters

Me: I've been hearing from a few folks that you've been doing the equivalent of cold-calling some of my facebook contacts. It's perfectly understandable that you're trying to expand your network of friends and I encourage it. I just ask that you respect me and my friends by asking me for an introduction first. Facebook and LinkedIn are two different kinds of sites.
Recruiter Dude: I contacted a few people from Powerset, but it was not related to you or anything that I found off of you page. Sorry if they think that.
Me: Just realize the Facebook is not necessarily the same as LinkedIn.
Recruiter Dude: I do, however FaceBook promotes developer to bring apps and other things here. So for that reason, it is a good place to find people that are motivated and excited by new technology. As I mentioned to your friend, my job is to find people for the companies that I work for and I try an do that as intrusively as possible, but it can be a hard line to walk.
Just know that me contacting you coworker is unrelated to us connecting here.
Me: I'm sure it was just a Freudian slip and you meant "non-intrusively"

That’s one way to force a person to jump when they get...

Wow, what a hick.

All the world in a song. I’m looking into converting...

I don’t think I can count the number of times this has...

Tonight’s Eclipse

This is a representation of how tall Hyder...

Barack Obama's Accomplishments

If anyone else was watching MSNBC a few minutes ago, you would have seen that Chris Matthews ripped...

Hilarious Gordon Ramsay-esque slip-up in England Joe...

Looks like the spam has started as well on that FB/CBS app.

It’s always amusing to see the UNC/Duke rivalry every...

Redirecting $stdout for fun and profit

I was looking at Tom’s Chronic library and noticed this little bit of overridden code where he...

End of an era… 

Eric Skiff waited too long to make a Valentine’s Day...

&*#%! I Made Grep in Project slow... and...

Henrik Nyh’s Grep in Project is awesome, so awesome that I think it should replace...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. University of...

Powerstache report: It’s coming in quite nicely. So...

q14 d14 d12 q12 k3 k13 f15 o15 p9 e9

PETA's newest brainwashing attempt

Voodoo for deleting a remote git branch

git push {repository} :heads/{your_branch_here} (via @ivey)

Hello Kitty MMORPG goes beta

Best Rails bug ever.

Array#powerset

For some reason I was looking up my company and found this Ruby function for finding the power set...

Not only do ‘certified’ coders get a whole $35k...

Dammit, emacs!

That’s what she said… 

Powerstache Report: I did a little trimming yesterday around...

Indeed it does not. 

Peruvian Anti-Riot Police. I would freak out of a group of...

Entity Extraction via the Calais Web...

A few weeks ago, Barney mentioned that Clearforest, now owned by Reuters, had opened up an API to...

It really begins…

I was going to post on Friday but since every one else is...

“Oh no, I didn’t know they were going to make...

Community-sponsored public WiFi in the...

I love when people make silly...

(public) Terry Chay: I definitely have a problem… with Ruby! :-D http://tinyurl.com/2gjua6
Abhay Kumar: mephisto is crappy. the same way that many php engines are crappy, heh. just because wordpress works well doesn't mean php > ruby
Abhay Kumar: all i'm saying is as a language, Ruby is far superior. You can't measure a language by the blogging platforms that are built on it.
Terry Chay: Superior to what? It’s slow, unscalable, poorly implemented, has an egotistical and inexperienced community working on it.
Terry Chay: I measure a language by its utility.
Abhay Kumar: I think basing your thoughts on Ruby purely on your feelings on Rails and maybe even just Mephisto is a bit ignorant.
Terry Chay: And yet my feelings about Ruby are very prescient. It may be because I have eight years experience in web scalability.
Abhay Kumar: How is that not an argument from personal authority? How about a discussion based on the qualities of the languages themselves?
Terry Chay: I have a number of discussions on my blog. But the general upshot is when you choose a language you choose more than its syntax.
Terry Chay: As for your claim it's "ad hominem" I have refuted the scalability weakness of Rails and the performance weakness of Ruby many times.
Terry Chay: The null hypothesis favors me, the burden of proof is on you to prove me wrong. Duh!
(public) Terry Chay: @abhaykumar Don't argue Ruby or Rails with me if you are unwilling to read my old blog entries. I was right, others were wrong. Bai!
(public) Abhay Kumar: @tychay I never said I was unwilling. I just think that your argument is moot when we're discussing via a system that is written in Ruby.
(public) Abhay Kumar: @tychay PHP is targeted purely as a web language and any other kind of development is is at a serious disadvantage.
(public) Abhay Kumar: @tychay Ruby started as a scripting language with a bias towards some webdev. Extending Ruby is easier. Embedding Ruby is easier.
(public) Terry Chay: @abhaykumar When not wedev we don't use PHP, unlike Ruby peeps like you, we don't have Not Invented Here. You just proved my point.
(public) Abhay Kumar: @tychay I'm not exactly sure what you said there but I've reached my daily quota for arguing against tunnel vision.

Gang signs? Really? 

OpenCalais Ruby Client

I’m not really sure how the connections work but this...

Gulag Theme Park

I lost my game of go with Dave. Here’s where I...

AirMail: Manila Envelope Sleeve for MacBook...

Product Party

Ruby memory leak: regular expressions in...

A few people were taking about this snippet of code today: module Foo def class_name ...

MagBake is opening a new location!