April 2008
9 posts
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus →
What I got out of this article is (and yes, I’m going to ruin the punch line now), if the US tv-watching population got up and wrote a few words on wikipedia every time ads came on, and wikipedia was started, completely from scratch, on Friday night, the entire history of wikipedia — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in...
Apr 28th
“The men who program in C are Real Men. The women who program in C are Real Men...”
– Urban Dictionary: C++ via @violasong
Apr 28th
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PHP: Timeout on file_get_contents
Since there doesn’t seem to be a single piece of documentation or example on the use of the context option for file_get_contents, and everyone’s actually setting the PHP app’s ini value for timeout (euugh) instead of doing it right, I thought I’d feed this to google: $ctx = stream_context_create(array(     ‘http’ => array(         ‘timeout’...
Apr 15th
Apr 11th
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Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and... →
These were not really things that I didn’t already know. Stated so boldly, however, the facts really shock me. I get the sudden urge to build a bunker powered by solar cells, and prepare for the inevitable war for our dwindling resources. (Video, audio, transcript) “So no matter how you cut it, in your life expectancy, you are going to see the peak of world oil production.”
Apr 10th
Trouble in Rails Land - order_id is null  →
Can someone please explain to me why this is fails? I’d be very, very grateful. I must be missing something very essential, and I thought I had begun to grok rails by now… It worked great for a while, and then suddenly stopped working.
Apr 9th
WatchWatch
Location bar autocomplete in Safari rocks.
Apr 6th
3 tags
Re: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3
I agree with everything that Gruber writes about in his latest article. A friend of mine went majorly goddamned-mac-zealot on me and his article (had to explain not once but *twice* that Gruber wasn’t saying “FF should be exactly as Safari” but “Safari beats the Mac port of FF on a number of points” :P) All is well and good though, as he found a fix for the most...
Apr 6th
27 notes
“Micro-benchmarks are pretty irrelevant, and you would think Sun’s big...”
– Earth to Sun
Apr 3rd