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The term "break wind" apparently attested as early as 1552. http://www.etymonline.com/index... "Thou didst breaketh wind!" "I didst not!"
@whorus We'd be interested if your apps run under Sinatra, since that'd use the same Rack and adapters (wouldn't it?).
The ugly truth: "there's" can now be used with both singular and plural subjects.
I have really good grammer. That's because I'm a programmer.
Groan
- nickrw
Annoying: [website] popups that appear on hover/focus, but don't go away on blur. Grr...
Just used git bisect for the first time to squash a bug. Neat little tool, that.
Neat: http://github.twi.bz/g You get auto-generated download links for your github project, based on git tags.
Just [git-]merged two and a half months of work; encountered only one tiny conflict. Feelin' good.
Try this: Check your email [much] less often. You might like it.
Lately, I only open my mail client when I sense that somebody (read: a client) might have said something that I should respond to or act on. At work, I changed my mail client to get mail only once an hour. It's amazing how much that little mail tray icon disturbed my workflow, and how my workflow improved without that regular interruption.
- Pistos
I also set up a new email address to give to the most important, dearest people in my life. I have that checked every 5 minutes, so they can get in touch with me quickly if necessary.
- Pistos
@thelazza No, I mean to move the layers in the layer list. I didn't mean moving layers in the image area itself. #GIMP
Riddle me this: Why does Google Calculator put spaces in the resultant numbers -- perfect for being unusable elsewhere?
I'm taking the plunge and upgrading from #KDE 3.5 to 4.3 ... see you on the other side!
Hmph. Thinking about writing a better "top stories" retweeter for/than @newsycombinator .
"Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God." - Pope John Paul II
lolcats, according to Google: http://translate.google.com/transla...
Poll: What's more annoying: animated ads or Javascript+CSS popup "window" ads?
I'm voting for the JS+CSS popups, on account of my ad blocker(s) not blocking them. :P
- Pistos
"What a father says to his children will not be heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity." - Jean Paul Richter
Hm. Blazing speed, and both --colour and --color options. I think I'm sold. http://betterthangrep.com/
This might even replace my long-time friend, glark. http://www.incava.org/project...
- Pistos
Hm... you know you need a coffee when you misread optionparser as opinionparser.
I actually read that as 'onionparser' first time around, what do I need?
- nickrw
LOL, nickrw
- Toby Thain
hehe
- Pistos
Dear Internet: Please recommend the best downloadable multiplayer games to play under Linux on a LAN. Any & all genres.
Unreal Tournament 3 should be ok (commercial). FPS.
- Toby Thain
Isn't it odd how many help forums have a practice of putting [solved] in titles when solved, instead of building such a feature into the forum software itself?
Then again, many forums *do* have this feature...
- Toby Thain
I happened to think of this while surfing the Gentoo forums. But what forums have that? The sites I know that do this are specifically help sites (not just forums). e.g. stackoverflow
- Pistos
Adobe, Apple, and others. Sometimes this is a simple "helpful answer" or "this solved it", and others have kind of points system that you can assign etc...
- Toby Thain
e.g. http://telegraphics.com.au/~toby... (Adobe)
- Toby Thain
"The family is a good institution because it is uncongenial." - Chesterton
Indeed, I say that you can know a lot about a person's character by the way he treats his family! (Or she hers.) Observing family relations is especially sage advice for those hunting for a spouse.
- Pistos
My Google wave simply asking "Are you out there, fellow Catholics?" has sparked tonnes of discussion. Didn't mean to!
"Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer." - William Booth
On the other hand, Mother Teresa said: "Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world."
- Pistos
Working with XSL again. The hatred is being stirred once more. XSL is so dang unintuitive!! #vent
I swear, the inventors must surely have been making it difficult to use ON PURPOSE. That's the only sane explanation.
- Pistos
Oh come on, it's just declarative. Like all your other favourites: make, regexp, css, sql, ...
- Toby Thain
I am reminded of Terminator 2, wherein Sarah Connor tries to assassinate the inventor of a weapon of mass destruction, in the hopes of averting the terrible future. In the same way, I feel like I need to go back in time to convince the XSL drafting committee: "Guys, it was a nice idea, but it turned out HORRIBLE. Just don't. Go invent network-ready toasters, or something."
- Pistos
@qu1j0t3: No really, time and again, I find them making what should be simple and straightforward into a nightmare of syntax and usage lookup. I'd pick simple template systems over XSL every time. Current case in point: You'd think it'd be simple to do "whenever you see this tag, replace it with this", but it's not (due to template nesting).
- Pistos
How do you replace a tag with a "simple template system"?
- Toby Thain
Well, my only experience was with XSLT, not XSL itself. But these are meant to be highly general mechanisms afaik, so ...
- Toby Thain
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