December 2009
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How Unit Tests Saved My Marriage
I’m not married, but if I was, they would have. Here’s a recent real-world(TM) experience:
A co-worker found that a tool of mine died when writing data in a certain format.
I checked out the latest version, ran the existing tests.
The tests passed. Curious, but that’s given me an idea that it’s something I haven’t thought about.
I read through the tests and...
Yes! I always wanted to Subliminally Learn German: http://bit.ly/8Rw5HM
Feels great to be back in Tokyo!
This GAMMA IV entry looks cool http://bit.ly/67o0HX
ネットで聴ける日本語ラジオってあるのでしょうか。全部がRealかWindowsが必要らしい。。。 誰か助けて！
OM NOM NOM http://yfrog.com/3nlfag
This is very Niche. “God has no more posts” (from http://bit.ly/7xbpaK) http://yfrog.com/1dtpvp
Anyone know any good mac/browser games?
You can do weird math notation in Python?! long_words = [w for w in set(text1) if len(w) > 15]
Working through the Python Natural Language Toolkit book http://bit.ly/8HHdXx It’s been too long since I did some coding for fun :)
Just completed Machinarium
Just bought Machinarium http://machinarium.net/
RailsCasts is a catalogue of awesome stuff I will never get to use :(
Why is there no Gemcutter equivalent for Perl? CPAN submission still seems like Such a pain.
Finally getting round to playing Penny Arcade ep 2. Only had it for 6 months or so.
Perl Autobox. http://bit.ly/5vxeqq “Hello”->upper(); and [1..10]->for_each( sub { } ); Oh. Oh my brain. You put your Ruby in my Perl. Yum.
Also autodie looks handy. Time to put it in production, see what blows up. (via @cowfish)
Hotel room too cold. Going to bed.
Transport epic fail http://tinyurl.com/ybwkoxq
Between my PC clock reverting to Japan time, my body clock being jet-lagged, and it being dark outside, I’m not sure if it’s really 1am…
Working in London for the first time in 1 and a half years
The best thing about going back to the UK? iPlayer and a load of Never Mind the Buzzcocks!
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The Adventure
Tears streaming down my face as I sit bathed in the weak light of a 8 inch LCD screen was not the way I had imagined a moment of revelation to occur.
On an 11-hour flight from Tokyo to London I did what was becoming my usual routine for not getting embarrassingly airsick. Eat before getting on the plane, skip the airline food, watch 4 films, get off. The most challenging part of this trip was...
#playasia - Taking 3 weeks and counting to ship from Hong Kong to Japan! Thanks @playasia, great job!
Wow there are entire companies devoted to thinking of brand names. http://tinyurl.com/ryl249
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Christmas Decorations on a Korean Bus are Awesome →
New Quest: You must kill 10 words and put them in your head. Reward: 100xp
Just installed Missing Drawer for TextMate even though I never get a chance to use it. Looks pretty cool! http://bit.ly/14dXjp
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WatchHeavy Metal Gangs of Wadeye - Courtesy of VBS.TV’s amazing modern anthropology
3rd week of waiting for my #playasia delivery of Assassin’s Creed 2. 3 weeks to get from Hong Kong to Japan. Post from UK to JP takes 6 days
Programmer’s Zen Koan of the Day: What is the encoding of an empty string?
Note that I live in Japan, right next door to Hong Kong where @playasia is situated
Don’t buy from @playasia if you want your stuff within 2 weeks. Something shipped in mid-November won’t arrive “because of Christmas delays”
Merry Christmas! New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_device_desirable_old_device
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November 2009
67 posts
No Excel, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have expected you to be able to run uniq() over a whopping 150,000 lines.
#playasia suck, and are taking weeks delivering my stuff yet again. Never using them in the future. Just gonna go to Akiba instead.