November 2011
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Funny how sometimes g++ complains of a missing `;’ when what’s really missing is `(‘. At least the line number reported is correct so that’s not hard to spot.
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New Coffee Roaster
When I arrived at work today, this had just finished being unloaded from a freight truck (it wasn’t scheduled for delivery until Monday, but I’m glad to have it early).
Yes, some things are still made in the United States of America. Good things at that. I visited the company that made the contents of this crate some time back (I think it was 2000, but it might have been 1999, I...
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People are more social on tumblr than on twitter:...
Yesterday was my birthday and I decided to share that information online. On tumblr there are 67 people following and 2 of them replied with a, “happy birthday.” Thank you, it was. There were also 2 likes. On twitter there are 416 people following and 0 of them replied similarly.
It's my birthday. →
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I wish every barista on tumblr posted where they work so I know to never go there. I keep reading posts that find new and terrible ways to be completely and utterly wrong. It makes me sad.
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Where did All the Programming Posts Go?
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update related to my software development work so I thought I’d put together a quick note on where things are at and why there haven’t been posts as frequently as there sometimes are.
First, I’m just not spending as much time on it as I sometimes can. November through January are high volume months at the shop so I’m...
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“I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way...”
– Representative Darrell Issa
Tumblr staff calls this quote encouraging, but it’s not encouraging at all. What’s being said here is not that this is a bad idea, not that this is something they don’t really want to do, but that it doesn’t have a good chance of being pushed...
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Woke up to another instance of that tumblr spam that’s been going around. Still not answering it, but if you’re a real person the ask box is open.
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Details are Important
Today someone brought in fliers attempting to publicize an event. Unfortunately, the person who designed these did not include the location of the event. I see these sorts of oversights frequently. If you’re trying to promote a community event, here’s a brief list of things you should be sure to include on your fliers.
Name of the event.
Description of the event.
Location of the...
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Unified Settings
This morning I noticed that my submit link wasn’t working. I’m not too concerned with this as I don’t think anybody has been trying to use this and it’s not like I’m paying for this, but this isn’t the first time that some setting has just randomly reset itself. No big deal, I just need to turn that feature back on.
Where is the setting? It used to be that you...
Oh joy, I got that tumblr spam message that’s been going around. Not answering, block.
“Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know...”
– Mark-Jason Dominus
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I Put on My Robe and Wizard Hat
Today I was wearing my technology purchase adviser hat. The land line phones at the shop have been wearing out so I went out to look at what was available in the way of new telephones. There are certain people I work with who aren’t stupid but have a high resistance to learning how to operate technology unless they are first convinced that such learning really will make things easier for...
Metroid source code →
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This path is supposed to be very long.
Today I decided I’d make a minor change to one of our internal applications at the shop. It’s a little (about 300 SLOC) Qt based application so I opened Qt Creator, made the changes, and clicked the build button. This succeeded, but I decided I’d click on the Compile Output tab and I saw something odd there as an argument to g++.
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Watchfuckyeahterminals:
Whut..the…fuck…
Am I doing it wrong? lol
Wasn’t the year of the Penguin 1999?
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Project Mail
It seems that communication regarding Typica comes in bursts rather than as a constant stream. I’ll get dozens of messages over a few days and then go weeks without any. It’s messages from people who aren’t using the program but think they might like to and have some questions or people who have been using it and have some question or feature request or maybe even a bug report...
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The DRM Graveyard →
The question of what happens when the company changes its mind is an important one not only for media with DRM but for any product that relies on the perpetual availability of an external service. As more services are implemented that in some way depend on the cloud, a business that mismanages the risks these services introduce will eventually get bitten by this with the result of lost...
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Reblog if you know what these are..
Fact: Kids today and kids in 10 years may not know what these things are and how to use them.
I remember being a little kid and seeing those, “things incoming college freshmen don’t know about” articles and knowing everything on the list. This strikes me as much the same thing, but even worse because kids today and in 10 years have the Internet which remembers...
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harmontedesco asked: Would you ship roasted beans etc to Australia if I bought some?
