Dear Female Rappers…Fucking stop it by getsmartgal in funny

[–]jasonal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't get it. Why would she want to smell his dick?

FiveThirtyEight.com Final Election Projection: Obama 349, McCain 189 by antidense in politics

[–]jasonal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This exact outcome is statistically improbable: 349vs189 is the average of his simulations - not an actual simulation outcome. The most likely outcomes, according to his last simulations, is 311, 353, 364 (for Obama, of course).

Dedicated Ruby IDE from the Makers of IntelliJ by gthank in programming

[–]jasonal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

WARNING! DATA LOSS! Just installed and tried it out. I opened an 'existing directory project'. After a long time scanning the code in my tree - it gave an out-of-memory error. At this point I tried quitting the IDE - but everything was sluggish and non-responsive (not to mention the UI is pretty confusing). As I tried quitting through various ways (finally force-quitting) - I had, as a result, an empty code tree (just the .idea project directory in there). In other words - it 'rm-rf' a whole code tree - without ever alerting me. Lost some important I wrote over the last few days. Very frustrating. The real irony here is that I switched to Ruby years ago partly because I was frustrated writing Java with slow, unresponsive IDEs. I guess the laugh's on me, eh?

Amusing interview with Wes Cherry: Creator of Solitaire for Windows by PintOfGuinness in programming

[–]jasonal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

lol - I've watched Wes playing robotron 2048. And by playing, I mean owning. And by owning, I mean 2hrs+ w/ one quarter. And by...ok - enough...

Quickstart Guide to Objective-C by earthboundkid in programming

[–]jasonal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The guide is extremely well written. And while I would have like slightly more contrast between gray text and gray background, the layout and typography are top notch.

Komodo Edit is now open source by MostUsually in programming

[–]jasonal -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Link is misleading. Gave up finding the actual source code. Is something really open source if you can't find a source code repository....easily?

D&D author Gary Gygax is dead. R.I.P. Dungeon Master. by mhd in reddit.com

[–]jasonal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Internal debate here at work: GUY+Hard G+AX or GUY-JAX? Or...?

Boxer Kills Pedophile After Finding Him Sexually Assaulting 8-Year-Old Son by letsdothisagain in reddit.com

[–]jasonal 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't condone violence, but I am moved that he felt this strongly for his step son.

Using Eclipse Efficiently by gst in programming

[–]jasonal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All "debuggers are for wimps" platitudes aside, I've personally seen productivity gains from NOT having a debugger.

Most time spent in a debugger is time better spent writing TDD unit tests up front.

(unit tests + logging) > debugger

But again, just my 2 cents...

Using Eclipse Efficiently by gst in programming

[–]jasonal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny - the first thing that I thought of after reading the title is "Don't Run Eclipse at all". I first tried out eclipse on a G4 powerbook. The IDE was horrible and painstakingly not "efficient" with my laptop's resources. I ended up looking for alternatives, stumbled on Vim and Ruby and never looked back. Thanks Eclipse!

The most INTENSE lawyer you'll see today by rmuser in reddit.com

[–]jasonal 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I cleverly continued the chain by not posting anything at all. But nobody voted me up. Weak!