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Michael

Michael

I just fell off the turnip truck.
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Come on Economist: "making ATM machines" and "the morale of Kodak’s fate". You do employ editors, no?
WebAudio specification brilliance: "The numberOfInputs parameter determines the number of inputs." That's super helpful guys!
Stack Overflow makes it way easier to Google for bugs, except those that involve a stack overflow, which are now impossible.
Oh yay! measureText doesn't account for the fact that italic text takes up more horizontal space. Must I relive font hell on every platform?
I want to punch whoever designed Canvas.measureText.
Dear turn-based strategy game makers: every second of my life spent watching stupid animations is a second I could have been having fun.
Coming atcha from the nineteen hundred and eighties: http://bit.ly/dVxgk5
OK, I admit it. 31 days without a proper night's sleep is starting to get to me.
Give me a Dropbox-like client for the Amazon CloudDrive and you've got my $100 a year.
"The user agent must create an event that uses the MessageEvent interface." Maybe you'd like to define MessageEvent somewhere Mr. W3C?
Apparently that was my spidey sense tingling. Note to self: just because the types work out, doesn't always mean the code is correct.
Type directed programming feels naughty.
Say Something Nice About Every Language You’ve Used - http://blog.darevay.com/2010...
The eternal quest for personal information management nirvanaz - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Applicative Programming with Effects – McBride and Paterson - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Lightweight Modular Staging – Rompf and Odersky - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Seattle plunged into chaos as thousands incorrectly decide they can drive home in the snow
Ooh, graph databases just what I needed!
Deprecating the Observer Pattern – Maier, et al. - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Hey Ant: if I set clonevm="true" but then *also* set dir="foo", I want the dir element to override the dir inherited from clonevm. Duh!
What cracksmoking led to the default sort order in Mac OS X top being PID instead of CPU utilization? PID? When is that useful?
Implementing First-Class Polymorphic Delimited Continuations by a Type-Directed Selective CPS-Transform – Rompf, et al. - http://samskivert.com/2010...
F-Bounded Polymorphism for Object-Oriented Programming – Canning, et al. - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Type Classes as Objects and Implicits – Oliveira, et al. - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Better symlink behavior for Git and Mercurial - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Why Maven Sucks: Act I, Reprise - http://samskivert.com/2010...
Why Maven Sucks: Halftime Show - http://samskivert.com/2010...
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