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My boss just told me "i think i'm almost done with a ~100 line python program that deduces via brute force every valid theorem of propositional logic"
Isn't that what LISP is for? http://weitz.de/einstein.html
- Kyle Laserdog
There are indications that we're an all-python shop, but I won't be beholden to that.. I get shit for writing stuff in perl, and my bash web server was grudgingly received to mixed reviews. I might do something in lua just to mix it up.
- Andy Bakun
One of my co-workers criticized our team using a www-less base domain (e.g. site.com) for a webservice like so: "Simply pointing to a domain name (without the host prefixing the first
dot) is sort of like calling an area code without the phone number following."
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I had to restart my reply four separate times before I came up with a civil response.
- Kyle Laserdog
Tell him to look into SRV records. The only problem I have with these kinds of domains is that wildcard certs don't match them unless you set up the DNS aliases correctly.
- Andy Bakun
Um, I'd hate to be the one to tell him that "com" is a domain, as is "example.com" and "www.example.com" is a domain, too. It's NOT a host except when the domain includes one and only one server (which is typically really rare). For example, would you rather use "news.yahoo.com" (a domain name) or address one of our 300+ servers individually, which typically have names like fe24.media.sp3.yahoo.com?
- Glen Mistletoe
Last week I had to correct three people about the validity of underscores in domain names vs host names.
- Andy Bakun
This all came about because their app would *fail* if it attempted to resolve a sub-domainless domain. Clearly, we're the ones in the wrong, not their application that can't visit google.com. (edit: I suppose digg.com is a better example here, since that doesn't redir to www).
- Kyle Laserdog
Strange PHP Puzzle. Why does the following script double count page views? - code: http://101010.org/phptest... link: http://101010.org/phptest...
Because the browser is making a HEAD request first that ends up running the script also?
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Heh, nah, that's not it. It's because the background is set to the URL "?", which is a relative URL to the same page. You almost got me there, my friend.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
It is the "?", but I'm still not sure *why* the browser(s) request that... If you set it to the equally valid URI "?dog=1", it no longer requests it. Something about "?" seems to be magic?
- Kyle Laserdog
Is that browser dependent?
- Andy Bakun
from Android
It could be something related to the order in which things are downloaded as the page is parsed. What's the smallest possible URI fragment longer than just "?" that triggers the second download? Does "?x" do it -- no need for that to even look like a form variable assignment.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Actually, I just retried my "?dog=1" test, and it is double counting again, so guess I was wrong about that. I'm still unclear exactly what the browser is hoping to retrieve from the uri though. A text file with a hex value? A style sheet?
- Kyle Laserdog
What is weird, is setting BACKGROUND="?value=1" *doesn't* do anything... I'm still a little lost why "?" is so magical? kyle.
- Kyle Laserdog
from email
The "background" attribute of the "body" tag specifies an image to use as the background. The background color is given with the "bgcolor" attribute.
- Andy Bakun
I was thinking it may have to do with caching. For some reason, "?" is treated as different from the current document, but "?value=1" is not. I was asking about the length because I was thinking there may be some kind of race condition in the parsing vs parallel downloading, and a longer URL delays is just long enough to know that it already has the current document. What happens if you add more stuff to the document in the "head" element, to make the document longer?
- Andy Bakun
This doesn't seem to be much of a "PHP Puzzle", but rather a browser issue. BTW, it happens in Chromium on Linux also. And Opera 10.
- Andy Bakun
Ahh, I was confusing background was bgcolor, makes sense.
- Kyle Laserdog
Anyone else think that it is weird that Obama winning a Nobel is immediately something he's going to need work to spin positively?
I suggest, "Consultation prize for losing the Olympics" or perhaps, the Nobel "He's Not Bush!" Prize
- Mike Kloster
I didn't say it was weird he won (that's been talked about to death), I was saying it was weird that it has been so quickly branded as essentially a negative thing for Obama.
- Kyle Laserdog
Maybe that is because there are already such high expectations, adding a preemptive Nobel Prize just contributes to that inevitable sense of let down.
- Mike Kloster
Bought an audio book off of Audible. After an hour I realized they don't support my mp3 player. Hurray for $18 worth of useless bytes!
You can burn it to CD and then rip it to mp3. Its kind of annoying, but it gets you there.
- Mike Kloster
Yeah, writing 5 GB of data to removable media, then ripping that 5 GB of data to arrive back at an 100MB mp3 isn't sane, or worth my time. I found the exact same audio book mp3 on a torrent site, and it downloaded faster than from audible.
- Kyle Laserdog
I have just given up trying to graph something in Excel and am now looking at the man page for gnuplot. Can't tell if I am leet or pathetic.
highlight your data, select from menu, "Insert -> Chart", follow prompts
- Mike Kloster
I wanted one of the columns to be the x data, and the other to be the y data, the fact that it defaulted to graphing both as y data against the row numbers just made me give up. "=Sheet1!$A$1:$B$5" my ass.
- Kyle Laserdog
I've that exact problem with Excel. Also, this makes you leet.
- Andy Bakun
that is interesting. it seems the default behavior is to graph date formatted data on the x and numbers on the y.
- Mike Kloster
Yeah, I had to go chose "XY Scatter plot" to get it to graph my non-date data as a line. That is, if I wasn't just going to use Gnuplot. =)
- Kyle Laserdog
@thwartedefforts I have a friend looking to have a bachelor party in Chicago, any suggestions?
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twitter is apparently busted...
- Andy Bakun
Not in Chicago anymore... and how did I become the go-to guy for bachelor parties?
- Andy Bakun
Dave and Buster's is good, and a good way to throw a co-ed combo bachelor/bachelorette party.
- Andy Bakun
And of course VIP (previously Crazy Horse II) or The Admiral, if nudity is required.
- Andy Bakun
And I've partaken in some decent bar-hopping, billiards playing, general drinking bachelor parties.
- Andy Bakun
Whilrly Ball http://www.whirlyball.com/ was a good bachelor party & is generally an all around good time.
- Andy Bakun
Jesus, twitter is so busted, I have to use FriendFeed as a working UI to twitter. Everyone should just use FF
- Andy Bakun
These are awesome suggestions, thanks Andy. I don't know how I spent 6 years in chicago without ever finding out where to have a good time. =)
- Kyle Laserdog
What would Middle Earth be like if there was a maglev monorail between The Shire and Mordor?
For one thing, the books would have been a lot shorter.
- Andy Bakun
The Hobbit would probably make illusions to the "Eminent Domain Wars"
- Kyle Laserdog
Is investigating how much a personal laser etcher costs.
Did your research discover if they work on glass or stone?
- Mike Kloster
Most of them are C02 lasers operating in infrared wavelengths so I don't see why they wouldn't work on glass, and I've seen examples of stone tiles being etched.
- Kyle Laserdog
After that, all you'll need then a mountain lair, and you'll be well on your way to world domination.
- Andy Bakun
[Video][DIY] Fat Man and Circuit Girl - http://vimeo.com/channel26212
Really accurate quote: "When you get to 95% of the project being done, and you know you can finish it, it doesn't become interesting anymore"
- Kyle Laserdog
I have a nerd confession. I can't stand Dr Who. I find the science lazy and the fiction overly preachy.
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Is that the new Dr. Who or the original?
- Mike Kloster
I'm right there with ya, man.
- Andy Bakun
Mainly the new, I honestly fall asleep during it half the time. I tried watching the old ones when I was younger, and could never get into them. I recall them having lower production values than Sesame Street.
- Kyle Laserdog
My friend talks about an old episode where the doctor tells K9 to go somewhere then pushes the robot dog with his hand.
- Andy Bakun
You know, "lazy science" is a good way to describe why I can't get into Firefly either.
- Andy Bakun
Have you seen the Janesville episode? Its just so good. Lazy science or not.
- Mike Kloster
I would like to pack the entire staff of boingboing up in some fuck-off steampunk dirigible and steer them straight into the fucking sun.
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Not mine, this is from casconed, but it's so good.
- Andy Bakun
Could al3x be the pilot?
- Art Witczak
World's first corpocide?
- Kyle Laserdog
The Art of Unix Programming - http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
"Clarity is better than cleverness." Darn good advice right there.
- Kyle Laserdog
So hard it hurt me
I'm assuming this is a PSA about avoiding including rocks or ice in snowballs.
- Kyle Laserdog
[Video][80s] HEROES UNITE: The Ultimate 80's Tribute (via my friend pete) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
![[Video][80s] HEROES UNITE: The Ultimate 80's Tribute (via my friend pete)](http://img.youtube.com/vi/UOuNwIRuCdA/2.jpg "[Video][80s] HEROES UNITE: The Ultimate 80's Tribute (via my friend pete)")  |
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The number of things I recognize from this video is beginning to make me doubt the quality of parenting I received.
- Kyle Laserdog
Easy to see the three or four different animation styles used in the 80s, must have been really cheap to outsource animation. The "credits" document the fickleness of the industry.
- Andy Bakun
Outlast and outhit her
I guess someone figured out that anger towards women and impotence go hand in hand?
- Kyle Laserdog
You might be making millions by showing your beast in the public.
To think I've been doing it for free!
- Kyle Laserdog
You won't find even the traces of your small miserable and retarded friend in pants.
This one is just so...harsh, man.
- Katie B
Sloth love Chunk!
- Kyle Laserdog
Stop treating with hostility men with big virility.
Shares the same wordsmith as Thangorodrim's possibly?
- Kyle Laserdog
Go to that cocktail party with this, and be sure to catch people s attention.
Works for either watches or viagra really.
- Kyle Laserdog
[L4D] Snap into a Slim guy named Jim! (via my friend nels) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
![[L4D] Snap into a Slim guy named Jim! (via my friend nels)](http://img.youtube.com/vi/AMqPG4S80bo/2.jpg "[L4D] Snap into a Slim guy named Jim! (via my friend nels)") |
Will I get this more if I play L4D? Was this a mod or something?
- Andy Bakun
Yeah, it is a mod for Left 4 Dead where all the zombies sound like Macho Man Randy Savage.
- Kyle Laserdog
Women will divulge the beauty of your bulge.
Where does he get such wonderful spam?
- Kyle Laserdog
The Internet, of course. I wish I had written it so I could take credit for it.
- Andy Bakun
Now you have a huge defender inside your pants.
What will it be defending me from?
- Andy Bakun
It would make a great anti-hero. I can see the first issue where he is arrested for flashing whilst saving a bus full of nuns.
- Kyle Laserdog
Absorb energy for longer nailing
Carpentry is exothermic.
- Andy Bakun
Sure you don't mean endothermic?
- Kyle Laserdog
Yes, I have, apparently, confused the thermodynamic and biological definitions of {exo,endo}thermic.
- Andy Bakun
Your ride in bed will last much longer than a ride in Disney.
Great, now I'm wondering if there are any Imagineer-based cosplay sites.
- Kyle Laserdog
Even millionaires are ready to give up everything for just one erection.
If you could attach Adam Sandler to this I honestly think you'd have an automatic greenlit movie pitch.
- Kyle Laserdog
I'd like to see a trailer mashup with this as a voiceover.
- Andy Bakun
If you look stupid in bed
I was disappointed that this was just another erection pill. I thought for a second that they had found a cure for *my* disorder!
- Kyle Laserdog
Forge your huge love sword
In the fires of Mount Doom.
- Andy Bakun
Personally, I always try to use my 5 love lions first, even though it's never as effective as simply forging the love sword. I suspect it's just to pad an extra few minutes onto the whole affair.
- Kyle Laserdog
Easiest way to gain mass
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In these pants we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
- Kyle Laserdog
Hold the confidence in your palm, wear it in your pants.
And last but not least Cowardly Lion, I give you this strap-on.
- Kyle Laserdog
I wish I could like a comment. Nice.
- Andy Bakun
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