April 2009
21 posts
“The sentence “I never said she stole my money” can have seven different meanings...”
– peterwknox < gregbrown < setuplikeadeckofcards < luminosa:
A neat anecdote from the New York Times article on IBM’s Jeopardy-playing computer.
tristanjay7:
It’s called focus. Also, I’m not getting the special meaning for the reading in which “money” is stressed.
“She stole my...
ruby script/generate scaffold < types
script/generate scaffold ModelName [field:type, field:type]
Rails 2.x changed the scaffolding script to one that doesn’t make a view that iterates over all the columns, letting you create an admin interface in five minutes, but rather one that wants you to fill in the types of all the columns of the table there, on the spot. (Can you tell I don’t like the change?). Neither the...
[Swedish] Piratpolitik
Jag har blivit piratpartist, och detta mailet från en mailinglita som Peter Olsson på kvp.se hittade sammanfattar anledningen bäst:
Själv är jag en konservativ medelålders man som aldrig någonsin har “fildelat”. (Och jag tycker illa om piratkopiering.) Ändå har jag nu för avsikt att gå med i piratpartiet, rösta på dem i EU-valet och ge dem ett penningbidrag till deras valkampanj.
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My dream UI: The Natural, Physical, Deep UI
I’ve been very interested in alternative user interfaces for many years. In my voodoopad wiki the topic “My Dream UI” has the tag line “If I just keep throwing ideas together, the big mashed-up blob will eventually become awesomeness” :) So, for my dream UI, I would want:
Natural UI/Multitouch. You all know what multitouch is, and it’s become mainstream now...
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Via @mikeash, the job you don’t want:
Cable loading on the “Durable”
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Review: PowerUp Forever (XBox Live Arcade)
PowerUp Forever for the XB360 is very very similar to my all-time favorite shooter Battle-Girl by Ultra/United. If you’re, like me, a fan of the old classic, you know that there’s no MacOS X port. I’ve tried to reach Ultra/United many times without luck, and a few years ago their site died, seemingly from the domain expiring. I’d give a lot to be able to play that game...
