January 2010
89 posts
At an amazing cafe - cafe obscura http://maps.google.com/?q=35.642303%2C139.673759
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iPad - Being A Big iPhone Isn't So Bad
It seems everyone’s “weighing in on it” so here’s my 2 yen.
The bottom line is, it IS a big iPhone/iPod touch, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. With that you get a bigger screen and the ability for more details on-screen. However it’s Not a PC/laptop in any sense of the word. Don’t go expecting to poke around the guts or do some programming or...
No idea how it works, but is there a way to add to the autocomplete function of a unix terminal? Filling out stuff After my custom cmd + tab
Every time I see the main desktop picture for the iPad I still think “Really? 4 icons? Really? on 1024x768?”
I really want to eat a Cornish Pasty now. Thanks Wikipedia :( http://bit.ly/5OX4M1
Sung in a Yorkshire accent: “You used to hold me Be-Be-Beer” http://open.spotify.com/track/1SJWKuVWzg2mXY6dMp9Rsp
An insight into the creation of the iPad http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/frantic_steve_jobs_stays_up
Dear #ipad developers, More point and click adventures please!
Just thought — No multitasking on iPad? Not until Apple release the next version of the software and claim a revolution in computing?
RT: @wycats: New Blog Post: The iPad: A *GREAT* Day for Open Technologies http://bit.ly/9kgplf
I guess that just leaves iPed (walking-related), iPud (Twitter-enabled dessert) and iPid (I have no idea)
Truly Terrifying: “Fox News Is America’s Most Trusted Network” http://bit.ly/ajW1eA
Also, new iPad Nano: http://bit.ly/92flrh
Aren’t the icons on the home screen kind of teeny? Is it just because there’s only low-res versions at the moment? #ipad
何よりもiPadの3G値段は気になるな
Also the price difference just for adding 3G is ridiculous.
Muphry’s Law: “if you … criticize editing …, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written” http://tinyurl.com/6ggr36
I think I have Golden Moose Syndrome. Every time I see a problem I want to hit it with Moose.
Unicode character of the day! ☃
NHS announces the music for its new series of promotional adverts http://open.spotify.com/track/5u1OlGChiwTFL2rliPOZCT
That last one was kind of cool, more #unlikelythemetunes please!
Whoa, interesting post about return; and return undef; http://d.hatena.ne.jp/gfx/20100126/1264474754
Witing little bash scripts makes me a sad bunny: echo `perl -M$NAME -e “print "\$$NAME::VERSION\n";”`
Feltron 2009 Annual Report out now http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2009_annual_report/ Awsome design as always
My DIY alarm-clock worked really well :D
Using crontab, apple script and Spotify to make an alarm clock. Feels like gaffa taping a metal alarm clock to a tape deck.
Having trouble finding a good way of mocking WWW::Mech…
Awesome! http://learnyourdamnhomophones.com/ (via @sparklykate)
Interesting post about Korean and government phonetic rules, using pronunciation of “Haiti” as an example http://tinyurl.com/yde7m62
Apparently ‘Do No Evil’ doesn’t apply when you can make lots of money in China http://bit.ly/8lNrmS
Just about to start going into the Green Day concert here in Saitama.
print “My array: {[@array]}”; # mmm, so evil
Amazing dark jazz album on Spotify. Misty streets and smokey bars. http://open.spotify.com/album/3eQEiu4hqglje39tYgIfWL
Finally a shop that gives you stuff with Zero Packaging: http://bit.ly/7ZGPWd
I can dream, can’t I? TED Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off http://on.ted.com/697G
Just remembered that days are just days. The concept of week days, weekends, even differentiating them by name and in cycles of 7 is Insane.
Oh. Test::Moose. I should have been using you about 3 months ago. *huge facepalm* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Test/Moose.pm
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MooseX::Getopt, YAML and properties
I was trying to let users specify a set of hierarchical properties from the command line.
This is how you run it from the command line:
foo tmp --yaml_properties="cake: [ bar, cake ]"
YAML STRING: cake: [ bar, cake ]
$VAR1 = {
'cake' => [
'bar',
'cake'
]
};
Code:
package Foo::Command::tmp;
use...
Wow there’s a linguistic study called “The Sitcom ‘Friends’ vs. Natural Conversation” http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-239.html
Is it wrong to want to use Quantum::Superpositions in production code? http://tinyurl.com/ao53sm
IRC according to Numb3rs. Please somebody Stop giving buzzwords to producers, they’ll hurt themselves. http://bit.ly/3F93gY (via @joshbuddy)
3D Warcraft Armoury characters http://bit.ly/63UbIG This is why WoW is better thought of as a fun DB project than a “game”
Say whaaat? This comp. ling. book calls regex * and + “Kleene star/plus”. I never knew that.
Finally, Cmd+D is how to say No to the “do you want to save?” dialogs in OS X (via @puresock)
There’s got to be a word for when: the word shark looks like a shark. (via @puresock)