January 2009
27 posts
Thought
If someone, somewhere finally would build that ideal computer, the computer that is not influenced by physics or user interaction, then, only then, we’d be able to let the beauty of our codes unfold. An endless ocean of pure logic and flurry interaction to no end.
…starting to get grumpy like an old man: If you stand in front of the door, people can’t BLOODY GET OUT!
Thought
I need to make a numbered list of things I say frequently. And then … voilà, saving spit ;)
Es gibt nichts wertvolleres als eine gute Geschichte.
who proves
that newsletters to customers really work? To me, it still looks like spam.
Thought
Looking for and finding cargo cults all over the place. Civilisation isn’t homogenous, even at a microscopic (individual) level.
“Mit scharfem Blick, nach Kennerweise, seh ich zuerst mal nach dem Preise, und...”
– Wilhelm Busch
“Die meisten Leute würden gute Musik auch dann nicht erkennen, wenn sie...”
– Frank Zappa
I, for one, welcome our new 2006- architecture... →
“A horrible little boy came up to me and said, ‘You know in your book
The...”
– attributed to Ray Bradbury
cattr_accessor deprecated
I remember once losing a lot of time over that beast when writing a test - its like a global variable. Giles, you’re right.
Coffee Day
Today is coffee day. Remember that Beavis and Butthead Episode where they eat too much candy on halloween? Well, I’ll be like that tonight. (It’s out, I watch Beavis and Butthead…)
Human Thought
is probably mostly random.
Engineers use duck type
Unlike real engineers, I don’t like using duct tape to keep my inventions airborne. I like screws and nails and .. welding. Somebody teach me how to weld.
Now the hard question: What does that make me?
Brasato alla milanese
Food instills religious feelings in me.
“Well, its just em – an application of the chaos theory - random control - each...”
– Stéphane in Science of Sleep, 2006 (explaining why the pony gallops)
Variation #34543 on Pascals Wager →
Ruby.rewrite →
Thanks for blowing my mind with this one. I know LISP holds unseen treasures, but I think I need to be shown.
Signal to Noise in Java
Exactly:
public class NewOrderHandler {
public void onNewOrder(NewOrder newOrder) {
// handle new order
}
}
In 2 lines of code I managed to type “NewOrder” 4 times. Even with a fancy IDE
this gets very tedious. When writing Java code I don’t actually write
anything, I just keep hitting [Ctrl + space] and [Alt + Enter] all day long.
When...