“ The men who program in C are Real Men. The women who program in C are Real Men too. You can spot a C programmer from their testosterone fueled swagger, and the unbelievable amount of contempt they inject into the phrase Java “programmer”.
Urban Dictionary: C++ via @violasong
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:
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.”
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.
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 annoying UI element of FF3 for me: single-click-selects-entire-URL. I almost screamed from frustration from just trying to edit the URL a few days ago. Here’s how to fix it, though:
Go to about:config (type it in the location bar and type enter)
Filter on “clickSelects”
Double-click on the row that says “browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll” to set it to false.
Now when you single-click in a Firefox location bar, it’ll place the caret in it; double click will select word; and triple-click will select the whole line, just like in a Mac app.
Addendum: Okay, so Voxar tried to convince me that Safari’s location bar was idiotic and illogical (of course only from reading Gruber’s article and not trying it out, even though he has a Mac on his desk :P), and challenged me: if Safari always highlights the first autocomplete entry when you type an url, wouldn’t it be VERY cumbersome to enter e g “http://daringfireball.net/2008/” when the only URL in your history is “http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/firefox_3_safari_3”? The answer is of course, no :) In Safari, you type “da[right-arrow]2008[backspace][enter]” and you’re done with it. The same scenario in Firefox would require you to type the entire URL in by hand, since the autocomplete would be completely useless (even the AwesomeBar would be stumped!). Now I remember why I love Safari :) (Watch It In Full Motion.)
“ Micro-benchmarks are pretty irrelevant, and you would think Sun’s big honchos would know that. However, when you realize that J2EE is a huge pile of steaming manure weighing down the people unfortunate enough to be using it, I guess it makes sense to shout “but our arithmetic is really fast!”.
Earth to Sun
An old blog entry of mine about my arch-nemesis build_hd_index. I once disabled it by chmod 000’ing the file. I have now learned that this is a very bad idea. The 10.5.2 Server updater has a new version of this file. When Installer tries to install it, it fails. However, it does not rollback, which means that your system has just been screwed.
Target Disk Mode and Pacifist are my very best friends.
