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Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition

Super Lloyd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:54:00 GMT

Cool article, I'm just sharing the love
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001283.html[^]

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

Developers Blues

TheArchitectualizer — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:31:00 GMT

I just don't understand...

Why is it that I score really low on a development assement test on the basic concepts and I max out on advanced concepts? I have been professionaly developing for 16 years and as a hobby for 28.

Is: (byte)a = b >> 8; really a basic concept? I didn't even use it befor writing intermediate graphics apps?

I´m just a developerr
And I love like my work
I don´t mind the money at all
I see lots of new faces
And lots of bad cases of
Folks with bad taste.

But I need four screens around me
To hold on to my life,
To keep me from going dot *
And a computer Budda
To watch me at night
To keep me from slipping away

I can highlight your bad code
I can laugh at your jokes
I can watch you fall down on your knees
I can terminate your apps
I can gas up my car
I can pack up and mail in the key

But I need four screens around me
To hold on to my life
To keep me from going away

Now the banter fills the air
In the board rooms during my review
And i´m thinking ´bout
Where i´d rather be
But I burned all my bridges
I sank all ships and
I´m stranded at the edge of the shell prompt

But I need eight gig's and 2 cpu's
To hold on to my life
To keep me from going away
And a computer Budda
To watch me at night
To keep me from slipping away

FedEx or Roddick?

d@nish — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:45:00 GMT

I like both the players and hence don't want anyone to lose. If I had to choose one, I would like Roddick to win. (Federer will break Pete's record anyways...so let Andy cherish this Grand Slam.)

I'm baaack!

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:09:00 GMT

Did y'all miss me?!

Lebanon was super fun, but I have learned the following:

Driving long distances without cruise control is bad for your right knee and ankle

No matter what you do or say, Syrian Border Agents at the border will always ask for a bribe in any manner and most often directly. One took my pen for a bribe, an Officer was content to keep my whole family in the car and order his underling (they are military) to write our medical tests (testing for swine flue) as passed for $3 USD (he was the most expensive bribe)

Lebanese beaches are beautiful, bar none

For a great and ancient city, Damascus is quite dirty, more so than Cairo and on the level with the more dinghy places of Mexico City in my opinion

The notoriety of the Syrian's terrible spelling and translation fails (English <-> Arabic <-> French) are not exaggerated. I discovered that in Syrian English, an Underpass is a "pass down" and that a Mosque is "Mousk", a "rest house" is "raist hous" and a Laptop is "Labtob"

The view of the sea from the mountains is incomparable

The Lebanese Mezzeh is simply unbeatable, especially with Arak and a nice stiff Whiskey

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Current activities:
Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Project: Hospital Automation, final stage
Learning: Image analysis, LINQ

Now and forever, defiant to the end.
What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

Another July 4th passes...

Dalek Dave — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:18:00 GMT

...and still no fleet of giant flying saucers appears over the world's major cities, resulting in the unification of all Earth peoples and peaceful co-operation ensuing after we engage and beat them.

OK, I will give it one more year, but this really is the last time.

If there is no sign next time then I think we need to employ Speilberg and Nasa to invest billions of dollars in faking it. A huge cover up that fools the world and which nobody will ever suspect they have been conned.

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"When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest"
Confucius 502BC

MI6 chief's Facebook details cut

Paul Selormey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:03:00 GMT

Clickety[^]
Hmmm, if he cannot intelligently manage the home!

Best regards,
Paul.

Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

The joys of being a geek

Nemanja Trifunovic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:37:00 GMT

It is a holiday, love of my life is currently on another continent with our kids, and I am perfecting the structure of a function that decodes a 2 bytes long UTF-8 sequence. Only when I make it single-entry-single-exit *and* readable I'll treat myself to a beer

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Weven Cool Thing

John Simmons / outlaw programmer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:32:00 GMT

The automatically changing desktop image. I have 25 Hi-res images from the HST and they look great.

"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

Now that's wolfin' it down

Steve Mayfield — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Joey Chestnut breaks world record with 68 (hot) dogs in 10 minutes [^] at the annual Coney Island contest :burp:

Steve
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Why I love the Internet and Ebay

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:49:00 GMT

Every once in a while I browse ebay to look at some big ticket items I would love to own. Curiously, they always seem to come with a reserve. Amazingly, the reserve usually matches just slightly higher than fair market value. What I don't understand is 1) How the auctioneer expects to sell something that is clearly not an auction and 2) Why people keep buying the stuff when they could buy it locally for less; it is as if they don't bother to use any tools but ebay.

Alas. I remember the good ole days of ebay when you could find some great junk you didn't need but really wanted for cheap.

Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.

A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane

Another Weven Annoyance

John Simmons / outlaw programmer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:12:00 GMT

I have no icons on my desktop, and I hide the taskbar. Every once in a while, the task bar refuses to appear if an application (*any* application apparently) is maximized on my primary monitor.

Uncle Bob

Henry Minute — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:09:00 GMT

I like Uncle Bob's get-up. My guess is that it was not an American that designed it, it is far too restrained.

Happy 4th of July to all who care.

Henry Minute

Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

Weven Annoyance

John Simmons / outlaw programmer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:23:00 GMT

I had to turn the UAC completely off so I could work on my code (stored on another drive).

Snake in CPU Cabinate..........!

koolprasad2003 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:18:00 GMT

Last month My friend open his CPU Cabinate to make clean and remove dust.
He just open the cabinate and shocked, shouted.....

He found a small snake in cabinate. He tried to pull it out but the snake escape and entered in SMPS...

then after a couple of hours snake came out and we through it away...

YYYYoooooo....Snake in CPU Cabinate..........

-koolprasad2003

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Be a good listener...Because Opprtunity knoughts softly...N-Joy

Why C# is hot... cool... whatever

Trollslayer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:55:00 GMT

I was looking at how to use a thread for background tasks and there is a BackgroundWorker in the toolbox list

Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

Isla Fischer is Hot

John Simmons / outlaw programmer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:39:00 GMT

We watched Confessions of a Shopaholic last night, and I gotta say, she's a babe.

w00t!

Mark Wallace — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:23:00 GMT

I've been considering upgrading my DropBox, for more space, but I just discovered a button on Opera for "Opera Link", which does the same thing!

Why was I not told about this??? What happened to the meeting invitations!?!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

eBooks and DRM

Mycroft Holmes — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:47:00 GMT

Not being in the US I am not tempted by the kindle but I do use an iPaq as a reader.

I've been using Baen Webscription[^] for a number of years buying and reading DRM free SF books. Last I counted over $800 spent on ebooks, all DRM free and all have been read by myself and some close friends, just like a paperback. The only drawback is the limited range of books on thier site and there are a lot of great authors that are just not there.

So I wandered into the local book swap shop and bought Peter Hamilton's Dreaming Void book (SGD $16 with 9 back on return), the first of a trilogy. I have liked his works since I read Nanoflower many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed Dreaming Void.

What got me was I HATED using a paper book to read from, having to manage the light source, flipping the pages and balancing the book from one side to the other. It was just painful. So back to finding an eBook version. I started going through the sites, Amazon, Finctionwise and some of the publishing sites only to find I cannot buy the book outside the States. This is a major PITA and apparently has to do with the way the publishing rights are sold (according to Fictionwise).

I then went to Pan MacMillan site and looked up the book £28, I kid you not they want £28 for an ebook. After reattaching my jaw I sent off a missive to PM expressing my disgust with the pricing. I got this reply

Thank you for your enquiry regarding our ebooks. We try to keep our prices competitive, and we hope that 
our readers will enjoy our books in both electronic and hard formats. 
The Temporal Void will be available in paperback in October 2009 for just £8.99.

which indicates they charge the same for the eBook as the paper book and the current published version is the HARD cover so if you want the eBook you have to pay hardcover prices.

Ah well I guess I will just have to wait till October.

Oh and I managed to get The Old Man's war which was recommended here (had to change from MS Reader to MobiPocket which is much better software) but I can't get the rest of the series b/c of the US restrictions. THIS IS DRIVING ME UP THE FREAKIN WALL. Stupid, greedy, inflexible, hide bound bunch of idiots

Well thank for reading, I feel better for that, not happier but somewhat less annoyed.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

log4net open source license

devvvy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:46:00 GMT

hello

I just want to confirm that I can use log4net with a commercial project undertaken with a commercial organization and redistribution is unrestricted except log4net/open source remains open source and log4net's Open Source license be included with the distribution? log4net's licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

http://logging.apache.org/log4net/license.html[^]

Thanks

Norman

dev

Star Wars: Palpatine and the Attack of the copyright Infringment

Lloyd Atkinson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:00 GMT

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/sw_copyright_infringement/[^]

If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true?

"Assembly.
 Ah, yes that dreaded thing that pulled itself out of the abyss. 
-- Wait, assembly is not that bad. It just takes time to adjust to."