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“Congress sold out the country, not me,” replied Bernanke....”
— xkcd » Blog...

“Says one developer, “Friends, that thing had so many...”
— Code To Joy: Quotes from an...

C++ is fun in that everything-is-harder-than-it-has-to-be-so-it’s-necessarily-a-challenge kind...

Acronyms and initialisms

Wow… I can’t believe that I never learned the difference between an acronym and an...

XML weirdness

I think one of the weirdnest things about XML namspaces is that you can start using a namespace in...

Welcome to the Coding Dojo

“We already have a language that forces you to jump through...”
— Self in the Argument List:...

Comics - Explosm.net

Triple the temptation, triple the fun

It’s a statement of a sweet gadget with Eee PC? Well, it’s a good thing they...

“if the IE8 beta shows us anything, making a really sucky web...”
— I, Cringely . The Pulpit ....

“Nothing limits the quality of what we read more than the...”
— Digg and Reddit: It’s Not...

“most of us aren’t focused on flipping assets....”
— Seth’s Blog: In search...

Chris's Wiki ::...

“When you have multiple run-time environments (Training and...”
— Filesystem Deployment: Some...

“And the key to growing any piece of software (or just about...”
— Seth’s Blog: Firefox is...

What was your first home computer? - Stack...

PyDBC: Contracts for Python

Google Reader word count

I wish that Google Reader gave me a word count in the header. It would be visible before I...

Verilog reduction operators

I had totally forgotten about Verilog’s reduction operators… if I ever learned about...

If you have a repository of editable articles and allow comments on those articles, how do you...

The one printer that doesn’t duplex by default is the one that I print the 200 page document...

Does God use TDD with the universe?

On the first day, God wrote a unit test, and he saw that it had passed. [… some days go by...

“Pantheios is the world’s fastest and most robust C++...”
— Breaking Up The Monolith: The...

“My data has been here for years, and will exist after the...”
— Web Log of Shaun Thomas

Visio and Dia

I tried using Visio today, and found it to be much less intuitively usable than Dia. I think Visio...

Using Coffin to convert to Jinja2

So transitioning my webproject to Jinja2 using Coffin has been informative. One thing that I...

No Break Statement

Hell is other people’s assembly. — Me

“There are better ways to comment a program, to add metadata...”
— The Type Declaration...

Grub recovery procedure

$ sudo grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hdX,Y) setup (hd0) quit $ sudo reboot grub-install...

“find /usr/include -type f -print0 | xargs -0r grep”
— grep - Patches: patch #4354,...

Programming meme

This is a meme I’ll actually do. A sequence of programming languages I know, in the order that...

“If you really think refactoring tools are a substitute for...”
— Stevey’s Blog Rants:...

The Typing of the Dead

HotRuby - Ruby on JavaScript and Flash

I was pleased to wake up this morning and find that the world still exists. I would have been...

How much does a Higgs particle weigh?

I wish that part selects were primitives in Verilog, so I could do something like: /* Modifies...

Windows is indispensable at work because meetings are scheduled through outlook. :(

ABX test - Wikipedia

Remember kids — static methods are not mockable!

Cappuccino Web Framework - Objective-J...

Skia graphics library in Chrome: First...

Issues with TiVo's Youtube support

So TiVo has this cool new feature where you can watch Youtube videos on your television. Great idea,...

Issues with TumblrBot

TumblrBot is a really cool feature — an AIM bot that relays messages that you send to your...

Revisiting C++ reminds me of this concept that’s really foreign to Python programming: a class...

It’s amazing what a difference it makes raising your bike seat to the appropriate height. I...

It seems like it shouldn’t really be called left and right shift… in little endian...

I feel like it would be nice to be able to query a function for its default argument values given...

I just wrote a dinky O(n) word wrapper and find myself wondering how many people have done the same...

I wish I had a whiteboard that worked in the shower. Does such a thing even exist? Since cleaning is...

The IDE Divide | Oliver Steele

“Unless you’ve actually been reading it, you’d...”
— Rory - Neopoleon : A...

“Big words, clumsy florid prose, uncritical attachment to...”
— Rory - Neopoleon : Are...