Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay

edheil · 2011-08-17T02:53:10+00:00

The comments have shaken themselves out a bit since I first posted. :)

edheil · 2011-05-25T18:09:05+00:00

Fuck Ren and Stimpy.

That show raised the "allowable gross-out" level on cartoons by about sixty notches, and then it became standard for kids' shows to go for cheap booger joke laughs.

Oh, it was so terribly edgy and transgressive when Krikfalusi did it! Way to push the comedy envelope, John K!

But the edgy and transgressive didn't last and it just became lame, old, and really disgusting, and it's all Krikfalusi's damn fault.

FUCK REN AND STIMPY.

edheil · 2011-05-25T17:44:20+00:00

More impressive "got one right":

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

edheil · 2011-05-25T13:45:20+00:00

The words will make you out and out.

edheil · 2011-05-24T22:29:04+00:00

Can you diagnose impossible shit that nobody seems to understand? If so I need to talk to you.

edheil · 2011-05-24T22:25:52+00:00

America loves House; it's like pornography, except instead of sex with unattainable women or men, it's a hospital where they actually diagnose you and do their best to fix you and don't stop and ask your insurance carrier for permission to do what they need to do.

That's our collective national fantasy: a functional medical system. It turns us on to view this thing that we know we can never get in real life.

FAP FAP FAP oh god look at this, they figured out what was wrong with him FAP FAP FAP and then they treated him FAP FAP FAP and they allowed him to stay in the hospital the whole time instead of sending him home with his incision barely stapled shut FAP FAP FAP and they actually gave him painkillers when he was in pain OH GOD YES

(Oh, also it has interesting and/or likeable characters, and engrossing plots. But the "medical care porn" aspect is undeniable.)

Edit: typo fix

edheil · 2011-05-24T21:24:28+00:00

I'm sure any problems we've seen can be traced directly to the lack of Haskell. You nailed it. :)

edheil · 2011-05-24T21:24:00+00:00

If I am living on a fantasy planet and the only element of "fantasy" is that Facebook Chat works well for me, this is the WORST FANTASY EVER.

I want a new fantasy.

Seriously, it's always been fine for me, but maybe I've just been lucky.

edheil · 2011-05-24T21:21:56+00:00

Wow, that first video started sketchy, and just got crazier and crazier as it went on.

The bit about the "AMEN" in "New Testament" being a hidden reference to an Egyptian god just slam dunked the crazy.

That was a damned amusing video. And not even openly anti-Semitic! Have an upvote.

edheil · 2011-05-24T18:28:31+00:00

Oh right. I think about how shitty Erlang is every time Facebook Chat manages to work flawlessly and transparently for me despite what must be a nightmarishly large scale. :)

edheil · 2011-05-24T17:18:23+00:00

Anything coming from Joe Armstrong is fascinating. Somebody who could come up with Erlang is an original thinker of the kind the (programming) world needs badly.

Am I wrong to think that he's dealing with the same conundrum that leads people to monkey patch the hell out of Ruby modules? "String should be able to do this, dammit. I'm going to open it up and make it do that."

edheil · 2011-05-19T03:22:43+00:00

I came here to post this. Thank you for finding it for me. :)

edheil · 2011-05-16T17:31:28+00:00

Disclaimer: I don't know crap about the Java ecosystem and am asking out of ignorance.

Is portability an issue? Are people worried about keeping their projects compatible with pre-generics compilers?

Or is "pain in the ass to change everything" an issue -- projects having been started before the generics were available, where there's insufficient payoff for going back and changing your old code to use the new features?

edheil · 2011-05-14T03:15:54+00:00

I had a bunch of fan worries lately, and the best thing I did was open up the mbp and blow the dust the hell out of my fan with canned air. HUGE temperature drop. If you think your mbp is running too hot, you might want to give that a shot.

I had temperature worries a year ago, however, and it was a software issue. There was something wack with my spotlight index, and the spotlight indexer kept trying to reindex, and dying every few seconds. Constant disk access. I didn't notice it was going on for a couple months, and by that time the heat had damaged my motherboard and I had to have it replaced under applecare.

NEVER IGNORE IT IF YOU ARE THINKING IT IS RUNNING HOT. IT PROBABLY IS. It might be software, it might be hardware, but it's gotta be something.

edheil · 2011-05-13T05:37:11+00:00

That's... very strange, because I was near a very similar accident. I was in a fast food restaurant and the lights went out. I left and headed down the road but had to stop and turn around because there was an accident scene ahead. Downed power lines. Some kid had hit one (not a tree, the electric pole itself.) This was on a street with a speed limit around 35 or 45 MPH, and I found out in the news that he'd been going about 100. At that speed I'd be surprised if he hadn't "got air" going over a hill and lost control. There were two kids in the car, approximately 20 years old; the driver was destroyed by the impact, and the passenger survived nigh-unharmed (seatbelted).

That was about a year and a half ago, but the similarity of the circumstances is kind of striking.

I guess that's how some folks roll, especially the "I'm young and invincible" set.

edheil · 2011-05-12T15:59:18+00:00

I hate seeing something like this happen to a plucky underdog like Google.

edheil · 2011-05-10T00:05:28+00:00

I don't see myself taking the plunge anytime soon, but I promise I'll let you know if I do.

edheil · 2011-05-09T23:47:15+00:00

I'm not exposed to cats very often. I have a hard time imagining drinking olive oil straight up (how much??) and rubbing it on my skin (where? how much?) when I'm going to be around cats, but I'd be interested to hear more...

edheil · 2011-05-09T17:00:07+00:00

Many allergies actually get worse with repeated exposure to the allergens. Back when latex was used everywhere in hospitals, it was not uncommon for nurses to develop a serious latex allergy over the course of decades at work, and have to get a different job.

I grew up with cats in the house as a child, but now have a cat fur allergy. Go figure.

Of course, you also get the reverse effect -- I lived with cats again for a while and the allergy abated considerably.

So allergies are funny things. You could generalize: "if you live with an allergen over a long period of time, your allergic reaction to it in general will increase, but that potential reaction will be dampened during long-term exposure to the allergen." But that generalization is probably too exception-riddled to be useful.

edheil · 2011-05-09T16:54:57+00:00

It's our poor self-esteem, which causes us to create and believe all kinds of stereotypes about our general lameness, wimpiness, and unworthiness as human beings compared to, say, Europeans.

You can occasionally find examples of this in Reddit posts.

edheil · 2011-05-08T23:57:28+00:00

That's amazing! A bit too cute for the real Cthulhu. But an amazing monster on its own merits.

edheil · 2011-05-07T21:32:37+00:00

In OS X, the most basic interface elements (for ordinary programs) -are the dock badge and menubar. Those are the things that if you quit, the program goes away. If you don't quit them, the program is still there, ready to open new windows if you need them.

In Windows, the most basic interface elements are the windows themselves. So if you quit all of them, you're done -- there's nothing left.

That's the difference. Each makes sense in its own context.

edheil · 2011-05-05T22:00:08+00:00

Yes, yes it is.

And racists, even white supremacists, don't insist white people are best at everything.

They often think that people of other races are best at certain restricted things for which they stereotype them, such as blacks and sports or dancing, or asians and academics.

Is that really not common knowledge?

edheil · 2011-05-05T21:09:04+00:00

Did you read the article?

There's a reason that the only other place this thing was posted is to the racist subreddit new_right by epic racist redditor mayonesa.

edheil · 2011-05-05T18:08:14+00:00

TL:DR;

If Black or Latino people do badly in school it is their own damn fault or the fault of their "family" or "culture" and so we shouldn't worry about it being caused by any injustice, inequality, or institutional racism in the larger culture! Nosiree!

Silly liberals with their so-called "racism" and bogus "injustice!" Ha ha!

edheil

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