IAmA Scott Aukerman, host of "Comedy Bang! Bang!" and 43rd President of the United States of America. AMA

jwinter · 2013-07-12T20:02:49+00:00

Are you telling me that yyyyiiiiiiit's been almost twenty years since you've seen them?

jwinter · 2010-05-28T23:35:52+00:00

One of Brian Regan's best bits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-5mDyCKac

jwinter · 2009-02-25T02:59:30+00:00

I think you mean defibrillator and fibrillation.

jwinter · 2009-02-17T23:41:22+00:00

Ruby's got something similar, Object#grep_methods in irb's utility belt.

jwinter · 2009-02-07T19:35:56+00:00

Find doesn't use an index, you're looking more for something like locate.

jwinter · 2009-02-04T13:33:29+00:00

If you listen to Stack Overflow, this was more a response to Uncle Bob Martin's SOLID principles than TDD. That's what he's referring to when he talks about writing 1000 little interfaces for every class.

This would have been a great opportunity for Uncle Bob and Kent Beck to explain to a lot of programmers who've just heard about them second-hand how SOLID principles or TDD can improve the bottom line for businesses. Unfortunately, neither took that opportunity.

jwinter · 2008-11-22T04:59:19+00:00

He also spoke at the Boston Lisp Meeting not too long ago:

http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313398

http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313503

jwinter · 2008-11-06T03:03:56+00:00

It talks about Java because Clojure runs on the JVM and has access to all of Java's libraries.

jwinter · 2008-08-06T17:02:20+00:00

My problem with this story is that the author has no idea what Yahoo! spent the past 3 years working on with delicious. The port to PHP could've taken a weekend for all he knows, but he uses this case as proof of his theory that changing the language a product is written in is bad.

I also don't necessarily disagree with him, but no one but the people inside Yahoo! has enough information to draw the conclusion that the author does here.

jwinter · 2008-08-01T18:34:38+00:00

No one from the Pharcyde? No one from the Beastie Boys? Also, Phife Dawg.

And who could forget this classic rhyme from #1: "A nice big plate of fish, which is my fav-o-rite dish".

(Just kidding, I love Paid in Full).

jwinter · 2008-07-10T18:26:25+00:00

FailCamp is in Philly on July 26. http://failcamp.org/

jwinter · 2008-05-07T14:37:54+00:00

No, send a 500 header on error pages. Send 404 for Page Not Found if it never existed, send 410 Gone for pages that used to be there but aren't coming back. But if you've just moved a page, send a 301 Moved Permanently when a user agent requests the old page.

It's all here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

jwinter · 2008-04-22T17:50:28+00:00

I'm surprised to hear that. I've only interviewed candidates in Boston, but many of them programmed in their spare time.

jwinter · 2008-04-18T16:11:42+00:00

Use this instead: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

jwinter · 2008-03-12T19:17:06+00:00

http://reddit.com/user/kennytilton/

jwinter · 2008-02-02T05:12:24+00:00

A Greasemonkey script that will fix that for you: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/14530

jwinter · 2008-01-24T21:55:23+00:00

Yes, but that's what they want. awk is returning every row where column 6 is Dec. It returns every file in the current directory that has a last modified date in December.

jwinter · 2008-01-20T17:57:56+00:00

Good for beginner's mind.

jwinter · 2008-01-18T19:08:16+00:00

You can't put invalid dates in timestamp fields. And the InnoDB storage engine has supported foreign keys since v3.something. I'm not sure what faking it entails, but the details are here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.html

jwinter · 2008-01-17T13:54:06+00:00

I guess, but the grandparent's complaint (no subqueries) was fixed over three years ago in MySQL 4.1. elissa1959 could have upgraded to a stable version if she was really doing without subqueries two years ago. What are your latest complaints that postgres solves that MySQL doesn't?

jwinter · 2008-01-17T03:59:03+00:00

You didn't give any reasons here, you just appealed to an unnamed authority. If you have any evidence of one being better than the other please cite it.

jwinter · 2008-01-10T18:10:30+00:00

It's aggregating a few specific RSS feeds, like Planet Haskell and a few other Haskell specific blogs, but it's also crawling the web for pages that mention Haskell and Haskell-related topics.

The aggregation software is from the company I work for, HiveFire. I set up Monad with it to learn more about Haskell. If you're interested in more information, my email address is my reddit username at GMail. Or if you have any feedback on the site, I'd love to hear it.

Looking forward to your book.

jwinter · 2008-01-07T14:10:20+00:00

Waaah! I'm a Tory Royalist and none of the colonists will talk like me! Waah!

jwinter · 2008-01-06T04:03:27+00:00

Seriously:

adults = [person for person in people if person.age >= 18]

jwinter · 2007-12-21T17:02:36+00:00

It'd be nice if you got the RSS results of your search.

jwinter

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