February 2012
1 post
“young people who didn’t enjoy the pursuit of the subject they were gifted...”
– http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-brain-into-the-zone-fast-track-to-pure-focus.html
January 2012
4 posts
blowing me off like a super star… holy shit. How not to interview someone:
Call the interviewee in middle of the business day
Don’t call the interviewee during the accepted appointment time due to doubts of them being available. (after only calling at the worst possible times)
Don’t send an email to the interviewee, send an email to their references asking why the aren’t...
Transitioning out of a job is weird. It’s not the knowledge that people want to make sure they take away before it is lost, it is the ‘do’-ing that people want transitioned. And, even the new do-ers, seem uninterested in walking through how the old do-er did it at anything other than a super high level.
But, maybe the knowledge is the best part; If i could write a...
I’m on my fourth adventure writing pagination code for a non-sequential set of more than 30 million records. ClusteredPagedListHolder evolved into SmartPagedListHolder which evolved into SmarterPagedListHolder which has now turned into EvenSmarterPagedListHolder.
I don’t think I’m chasing my tail here.. and, it does work, getting to page 79,000, remembering your place, and...
I disagree with all of your requirements. You are misunderstanding how computers work, and are far from my target user. I will make magic flags in the code that disable your rules at my convenience.
December 2011
8 posts
Scumbag Developer
Comment out all the working JavaScript, add some alert statements of static strings, add logging to the application that throws exceptions, breaks features; commit the code, head home.
2 tags
Louis CK live at Beacon Theater
Here is a track listing I made for the recent Louis C.K. performance he made available to buy online as an Mp4 video. buy it: https://buy.louisck.net/
1. 0:00 - 2:43 - Intro music 2. 2:43 - Shut the fuck up 3. 4:48 - Death 4. 8:13 - my body, post death.. 5. 9:36 - The folks are jacking off 6. 11:24 - The worst thing I’ve ever said 7. 12:27 - I wish I was a good guy 8. 17:42 - I think...
THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN A PAYROLL TAX CUT.
Toys r Us is… empty. Holy crap. even the crap toys were sold out. Line went around the edge of the store.. insane.
Ugh. http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa
Why am I watching this debate? *sigh*
My laptop monitor is not nearly bright enough to overcome the abundance of windows in this room.
November 2011
8 posts
Using micro-instances instead of deploying lots of JVMs on a single Large instance, is working out quite well. Easier for me to manage and monitor. Performing at nearly the same scale with 16 micros vs 4 larges with 4 deployments each.
1 tag
Oh Hi Mr. Developer, I see you’re trying to run a job that will run for about 100 hours. Now is the perfect time to introduce you to my default encoding, which is nothing like you expect; I’d be happy to silently inflict pain on you through the form of malformed text in about 1 percent of all your data..
How much of my life has been wasted on waiting for games to start on my playstation3. Really, battlefield 3, it takes a full minute before you can show me the menu? How about you show me that menu first, and then you show me who sponsored the game WHILE THE GAME IS ACTUALLY LOADING.
Haha, just saw the people that screwed me over on my first internship @ panera bread. Glad they didn’t recognize me. I have no interest in associating with them.
Just heard about “Pho Nom Nom” on reddit… omg.. saw the sign and knew instantly it was in my neighborhood, and exactly which shopping center it was in. http://www.phonomnom.net
1 tag
97 floor boards with dents/scratches on a brand new house = fail. Telling the delivery guy to not bother bringing a washing machine already dented in their warehouse = kinda win. Waiting for them to find me another one.
Hung my first window treatment this morning too.. mad success; cut is perfect, almost no gap around the blinds.
October 2011
8 posts
Lily, The Blind Great Dane →
Pull a hard drive off the shelf after essentially 6 months of not being used; except for when it was last used for a backup; and its dead.
a drive.. thats essentially just seen 4-8 hours of actual usage, is 2 years old, is dead. how lame.
“Battery Life: 8-12 house”
– So much battery life the whole NEIGHBORHOOD can use it :D
http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/108889/211257295-500080681/Upgrade-Cube-U9GT2-16G-9-7-inch-Capacitive-screen-android-3-0-tablet-1-2GHZ-Cortex.html
1 tag
lead engineer with access to confluence and google docs; using microsoft word instead.
“The term enterprise reduced sign-on is preferred by some authors who believe...”
– Even wikipedia thinks single sign on is a pipe dream.
When was the last time you ate at chick-fila? Eating there today, and loving it.
Oh Hi. I just rewrote your build system to be maven and everything deploys to jetty now. Yep, all that glueware is gone. Yay! now we can start doing actual work.
September 2011
5 posts
Explaining the difference between null and standalone configuration to the “lead” person of that system.. lead person doesn’t understand the fundamentals.
taking advantage of the day off with some righteous cleaning.
The air intake on the new lenovo u300s is the keys on the keyboard. No overheating on your lap. nice.
August 2011
8 posts
winstone, page render in 164 ms, jetty, page render in 40ms.
I found the random link on reddit.. holy crap.
At goscon. Listening to Alan Greenspan
Struggling to connect my practical experience with a fundamental big-o question. Or, how to fail at interviewing. Sometimes picking the asymptotically inferior algorithm works better than one that can’t be restarted after your server topples over. *sigh*
2 tags
SHUT UP AND LET THE GUEST SPEAK! OMG! TV GRR! I am watching your show to hear your guest respond to your questions.. LET HIM FINISH!
Just read a sad article about radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear plants in Japan still going nuts with radiation leaks.
Isn’t it illegal to declare that you are collecting taxes on behalf of the government, and then not give that money to the government?
In fact, I’m guilty of the same practice, emailing support for documentation to do X, rather than just asking “Can you do X for me?” or “Do you have any ideas on how I can achieve X”
Sometimes stepping away from the technical role, and letting the service providers provide service is difficult.
July 2011
13 posts
Take me off these email threads
Please write your representative today →
Just averaged 44MPG on a one hour trek down route 97 in my 2010 VW GTI 2door. Amazing.
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding, but, A news organization hacks into phones and all shit breaks loose, a government runs ECHELON and that is fine? I don’t have any assumption of privacy when talking on the phone or leaving voicemails… is that even the controversy?
Just wrote out the 6 places I’ve lived in the last 6 years.. holy crap.. time flies.
NATing the NAT in the NAT to NAT NAT another NAT and the peer NAT in the NAT is wrong.
Sometimes.. I just wanna die. (and yes, that statement above probably makes no sense..) IPV6 ALREADY!
Down from 3 minutes of processing for each day of logs to a few seconds over a minute by changing a while read loop into an awk script. HUGE improvement.