Projectionist: A tumblelog

Fri Mar 31

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“ I’d recommend exchanging the fun of indignation for the fun of participation. It’s a much longer lasting joy. ”

DHH

Thu Mar 30

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“ Mantis style isn’t easy to learn. The mantis is small, but powerful. With its arms it can lift up many times its own weight. ”

Invincible Shaolin

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“ It’s wonderful when two nice surprises coincide. The day I got into Georgetown I also got a pair of jeans. The latter was more exciting. ”

Henry the intern

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37signals

Matt L. - btw, chicago folks i'll be in town tomorrow for lunch,etc.

Ryan S. - cool

Ryan S. - we have, however, given up eating as part of the whole "less" thing

Ryan S. - it's all protein pills now

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“ I believe my responsibility is giving thinking people the best options they can get. ”

DHH

Wed Mar 29

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Rails core

Sam S. - what is this "patch" thing

Michael K. - those things that cause bugs

Tue Mar 28

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“ whenever I think of writing a plugin I just download it from rick instead ”

Ulysses

Mon Mar 27

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Topic change in Rails core

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Avie Tevanian leaves Apple

to “pursue other interests” on March 31.

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Anarchaia turns one

Congrats to Chris and the tumblelog that started it all.

Sat Mar 25

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Squeeze me

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“ What’s the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X. ”

Anonymous comment

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Vista 2007: Fire the leadership now!

Microsoft employees give their take on Vista in the comments section of this blog post. Incredible.

Fri Mar 24

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Absolute truth

Infinity = 1 / 0.0
module Kernel
  def truest
    eval %( #{'!' * Infinity} true )
  end
end

# Ruby can't handle absolute truth
truest
# => RangeError: float inf out of range of Integer

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Approaching absolute truth

module Kernel
  def truer
    eval %( #{'!' * 1000} true )
  end
end

Thu Mar 23

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“ hi,
I am a s/w. eng.
working in bangalore.
i have some problem in ruby.

there is a class in vc+++ code.

i have to know the size of that class in ruby
and pass it to vc++ code.

IS THERE ANY SIZEOF type of operator in RUBY.

WAITING FOR UR REPLAY……………………….. ”

Anubhav

Wed Mar 22

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Quack attack

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Method interception

class Module
  def intercept_method(method, temporary_result)
    original_method = "#{Time.now.to_i}_#{method}"
    alias_method original_method, method

    # Not enough room for a ternary ;_;
    t = if temporary_result.respond_to?(:to_proc)
      temporary_result.to_proc
    else
      Proc.new { temporary_result }
    end

    define_method(method, t)
    yield
    alias_method method, original_method
  end
end

class Duck; def quack; 'Quack!' end end

Duck.intercept_method(:quack, 'Honk!') do
  p Duck.new.quack
end
# => 'Honk!'
p Duck.new.quack
# => 'Quack!'

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“ ‘#fab444’ is the new ‘#ffffcc’ ”

Bruce Williams

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“ The notion of errors is ill-defined. ”

From the BUGS section of the netstat man page

Tue Mar 21

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Totally not an iPhone : patent app for “Database programs for handheld devices” filed by Apple

Mon Mar 20

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“ We have given up on hiring people here in Las Vegas. It seems that programmers which get paid well in Sin City get hooked on sex, drugs, rock and roll, and have other things to do besides work. ”

Rails job posting

Sun Mar 19

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“ I wonder if it remembers me. ”

Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic

Fri Mar 17

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Roadside near Kingman, AZ

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The samchillian

A musical instrument based on relativity

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#rubyonrails

16:15 < andersbr> Beware of hashes. Eeeeevillllll! Eeeeeevviiiiiiilllllllll!!!! (Apparently, session[:thingy] and session["thingy"] stuff data in two separate places. Which annoys me.)

16:15 < eriberri> of course they do andersbr

16:15 < eriberri> because symbols aren't strings.

16:15 < eriberri> you can go 'eeevill!!' all you like or you could actually pay attention to ruby. :)

Thu Mar 16

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HTTP over XML over HTTP

(by way of Koz) Not feeling enough complexity in your enterprise applications? Have no fear, the W3C is here to help.

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Rails core

Michael K. has entered the room

Michael K. - morning all. I'd just like to say, fuck oracle

Wed Mar 15

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Rails core

Michael K. - I just asked a former co worker why he hasn't written an ant task to deploy their app

Michael K. - "dude - they pay me by the hour"

Michael K. - enterprise right there

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“ Be ever so slightly disappointed unless each story contributes, in some small way, to making the system more malleable. ”

Brian Marick

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Babies in flower pots

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David Foster Wallace on Bookworm

Tue Mar 14

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“ I’ll be flinging partials like a chimp throws feces. ”

Bruce Williams whipping himself into a Rails-coding frenzy

Mon Mar 13

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“ What matters to me though is that I don’t burn out doing this. If I had to spend week after week attending only to the desire of users, I most certainly would. And trust me, there are enough user requests for me to be able to do that for years. ”

Allan Odgaard

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Sat Mar 11

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“ This is hard, and you are not stupid. Good luck! ”

Parting words of reassurance by Aaron Hillegass at the end of an exercise in Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

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Tip On Surviving a Freestyle Rap Battle

If someone beats you in a battle and it gets to you, practice more until you think you’re really ready. Then challenge them again: if you win, you will earn a lot of respect back. It’s a great feeling, and chicks or dudes will dig your system and flair.

Fri Mar 10

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“ PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems, but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems. ”

James Gosling

Wed Mar 8

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Scanner photography

Several years ago, I built my first homemade digital camera. The idea was simple – I would take an ordinary flatbed scanner, and use it in place of photo paper with a large format camera.

Mon Mar 6

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Rails core

Mike C. - funny, because i ordered an elliptical trainer in october, got it delivered a week later, and today another one shows up on the step

Nicholas S. - your ellipticals are going to be awesome dude

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American flag

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Rails core

Michael K. - Locking yourself out of your house doesn't scale

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“ It takes no skill to have an opinion about the name of a piece of software. It takes a lot of skill to create something as useful as Capistrano and a lot of generosity to give it out for free. ”

Chad Fowler

Sun Mar 5

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#ruby-lang

14:07 < slyphon> it's so absurd

14:07 < slyphon> some kid in my building just got himself a Harpo Marx clown-horn

14:08 < slyphon> so every 10 minutes or so i hear Hon-KA hon-KA hon-KA

Fri Mar 3

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Tip In case it hadn’t occurred to you…

Don’t type 22**222222222 in irb

Thu Mar 2

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“ We kid because we love. Please don’t delete our Basecamp accounts. ”

Valleywag

Wed Mar 1

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New business cards

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“ …the post-boomers don’t give a damn about your “professionalism”. They want to know how you can help them kick ass, and why you don’t have a blog. ”

Kathy Sierra on dignity

By

Fri Mar 31

Thu Mar 30

37signals

DHH

Wed Mar 29

Rails core

Tue Mar 28

Ulysses

Mon Mar 27

Topic change in Rails core

Sat Mar 25

Squeeze me

Fri Mar 24

Absolute truth

Approaching absolute truth

Thu Mar 23

Anubhav

Wed Mar 22

Quack attack

Method interception

From the BUGS section of the netstat man page

Tue Mar 21

Totally not an iPhone : patent app for “Database programs for handheld devices” filed by Apple

Mon Mar 20

Sun Mar 19

Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic

Fri Mar 17

Roadside near Kingman, AZ

#rubyonrails

Thu Mar 16

Rails core

Wed Mar 15

Rails core

Babies in flower pots

Tue Mar 14

Bruce Williams whipping himself into a Rails-coding frenzy

Mon Mar 13

Sat Mar 11

Parting words of reassurance by Aaron Hillegass at the end of an exercise in Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Tip On Surviving a Freestyle Rap Battle

Fri Mar 10

Wed Mar 8

Mon Mar 6

Rails core

American flag

Rails core

Sun Mar 5

#ruby-lang

Fri Mar 3

Tip In case it hadn’t occurred to you…

Thu Mar 2

Wed Mar 1

New business cards

Kathy Sierra on dignity