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The Coffee Shop Permalink

Cool Added about two months ago

So I did sit down, and everywhere I looked I saw customers of every description being received with love. To the waitress everybody was "honeybunch" and "darling" and "dear". It was like an emergency ward after a great catastrophe. It did not matter what race or class the victims belonged to. They were all given the same miracle drug, which was coffee. The catastrophe in this case, of course, was that the sun had come up again.

Kurt Vonnegut, "Jailbird"

Some problems are so complex... Permalink

Cool Added less than a year ago

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Laurence J. Peter

Try Chrome for Mac Permalink

Cool, OSX Added less than a year ago

Get the developer release here.

I'm finding it pretty good... it imported all my ff keywords and it uses them correctly, and it has the same 'search anywhere' in the URL/title that ff does.

Hacking YourWorldOfText Permalink

Perl, WDTEM, Cool Added less than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

YourWorldOfText is a novel site that is like a big, collaborative whiteboard. It uses JQuery AJAX to send what you type to the server. I have reverse engineered (ha ha, that's the type of pretentious wanker I am, I use the term 'reverse engineered') the co-ordinate system and created a Perl script that let's you do some tricks with the site.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use constant MAX_X => 15;
use constant MAX_Y => 7;

my @thing = (0);

my $bigx_start = $thing[int rand scalar @thing];
my $bigy_start = $thing[int rand scalar @thing];
my $x_start = 0;
my $y_start = 0;

my $bigx = $bigx_start;
my $bigy = $bigy_start;
my ($x, $y) = ($x_start, $y_start);

my $starttime = (time() - 20) . '000';
my $output;
$output .= "\narr = [";

my $count = 0;
while (my $line = <>) {
    chomp($line);
    my @chars = split '', $line;
    $bigx = $bigx_start;
    for my $char (@chars) {
        $char = q(\\") if $char eq '"';
        $char = q(\\\\) if $char eq '\\';
        my $newtime = $starttime + ($count * 17);
        $output .= qq|[$bigy, $bigx, $y, $x, $newtime, "$char"], |;
        $x++;
        if ($x > MAX_X) {
            $x = 0;
            $bigx++;
        }
        $count++;
    }
    $x = $x_start;
    $y++;
    if ($y > MAX_Y) {
        $y = $y_start;
        $bigy++;
    }
}

$output .= "];\n";
$output .= "\n";
my ($prevbleep, $curbleep) = (0, 200);
while ($prevbleep < $count) {
    $output .= "setTimeout(function() { jQuery.post(window.location.pathname, {edits: arr.slice($prevbleep, $curbleep)}, YourWorld.editsDone, 'json') }, 10*$prevbleep);\n";
    $prevbleep = $curbleep;
    $curbleep += 200;
}
print $output;

chmod +x this script, run it and paste in some ASCII art (or figlet output, or whatever.) It will then print the javsascript code you need to insert the ASCII art on the site. You will need firefox and firebug - paste the JS into the firebug console and hit run... then wait to see your art come up on the site.

Pro Tip: Start with a small image, or only a word or two with figlet. Larger stuff takes longer.

The Cult of Done Manifesto Permalink

Cool Added less than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

This has been posted in a gazillion other places but I still feel the need to propagate it.

The Cult of Done Manifesto

(1) There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.

(2) Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

(3) There is no editing stage.

(4) Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

(5) Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

(6) The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

(7) Once you're done you can throw it away.

(8) Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.

(9) People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.

(10) Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.

(11) Destruction is a variant of done.

(12) If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.

(13) Done is the engine of more.

I love the energy of this (even if it is a parody.) I love that it flies in the face of the naysayers and the deniers. It reminds me of the Futurist Manifesto, and it reminds me of this Chinese proverb:

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

Joe The Peacock hates the C.O.D.M, and has outlined an argument against each point. He's taking it too seriously. The C.O.D.M is just inspirational stuff for people who procrastinate too much - it is designed to help you change your habits. If you don't need your habits changed then don't follow the advice!

View from My Home Office Permalink

Cool, Photo Added more than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

Here are two shots of the view from my home office:

Window 01

Window 02

3 Mobile Broadband Permalink

Cool Added more than a year ago and last edited more than a year ago

I picked up a 3 mobile broadband USB "Internet Key Modem" (USB Stick) today.

Here are the speed results:

Speed Results

Nasal (Scripting Language) Permalink

Cool, Languages Added more than a year ago

In my ever-continuing search for programming languages that make sense, seem cool, allow for expressiveness, inspire me, etc; I have come across Nasal.

Check out the code examples.

Seems small, clean, predictable, OOPy, ... I like it! Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be under heavy development (it's a one-man project I believe.) There also isn't any socket library as far as I can see. When you obtain the source tree however you see that there are a few included libraries, such as math, regex, unix, gtk (!), cgi... so it's not devoid of libs - I'd call that a healthy start.

Rain Serpent Permalink

Cool, ThisBlog Added more than a year ago and last edited less than a year ago

The new logo at the top of this page is inspired by a picture of the rain serpent, as shown in the book American Indian Design & Decoration.

I love the plates in this book - the art is beautiful.

Rain Serpent

Interviews Considered Harmful Permalink

Cool Added more than a year ago

This article is brilliant. It attacks the notion of asking logic puzzles in interviews, using the classic Microsoft question as an example:

How would I move mount Fuji? I wouldn't try and move it at all. Moving a mountain has never been attempted by anyone, ever. Any attempt to move a mountain would likely run vastly over budget. It's likely the technology doesn't even exist to do this in an environmentally friendly way; although the Russians did happen to experiment with nuclear weapons in civil engineering. Why do you want to move the mountain anyway? There's probably an easier way to do whatever it is you want to achieve and it will almost certainly cost a lot less money.

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