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Writing a good job ad for a programmer
As a poor person, I have been perusing a lot of job ads recently and I’ve run into several major turn-offs over and over again. I don’t reply to ads that seems clueless because I have learned through sad experience … Continue reading
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Facebook doin’ it wrong
Above is a picture of Facebook doin’ it wrong. This is what happens when you leave yourself logged in too long, this is the “timeout” screen. You can notice its utter uselessness by observing that all around it is your … Continue reading
Add player stats to scoreboard in sauerbraten/cube2
We all like sauerbraten, but I wanted a persistent look at my stats as I played. As such, I have written the following patch to display relevant info. Thanks to #sauerbraten for help. This works against stable, “Trooper Edition”. There … Continue reading
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NoSQL v. SQL is the worst holy war ever.
This seems to be filled with religious contention, as demonstrated at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163039 . Both sides are talking past each other, so I want to lay it out flat. First of all, while NoSQL and RDBMS can sometimes exclude one another, … Continue reading
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python-ldap “expected a string in the list”
This error is given by python-ldap on Python 2.x on certain operations when it receives unicode objects where it expects a str object. Make sure any strings you pass into python-ldap are string type, not unicode type, and this problem … Continue reading
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Mozilla needs to step it up
I’m currently using the Chromium developer builds for Linux and it’s amazing how Chromium is still so much faster than Firefox even though Google Chrome has been out for over a year now and Mozilla just performed a major release … Continue reading
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Removing Adobe Drive CS4 in Windows
So, after sitting around for more than an hour waiting for Adobe’s indecently bloated CS4 installer to finish installing Photoshop and Flash, I right-click on a file, and am rewarded with a lovely little “Adobe Drive CS4″ context option. I … Continue reading
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Joel’s “Duct-Tape Programmer” is the only programmer you should ever hire.
I’ve just finished reading Joel Spolsky’s “Duct Tape Programmers” and jwz’s response to it. These posts strike a chord with me, especially that Spolsky spends the entirety of the article praising “The Duct-Tape Programmer” before he urges you not to … Continue reading
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Inaugural Post
Blog opening now. I’m doing this so that I can expound on opinions in a general, linkable sense, instead of just as comments on reddit or HN or the other communities I patronize. There’s nothing wrong with linking to a … Continue reading
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