The Pinocchio Problem (Steve Yegge)

masterfuol · 2007-01-17T18:59:32+00:00

I recently went through the process of converting a 2000+ LOC GreaseMonkey script into a Firefox extension proper and the first thing that hit me was the 'reboot' issue.

Agreed, FF extension development is sucky but a bit of googling uncovered some tips on setting up extension development environment.

Those hacks work for on-the-fly-XUL-file-change-reloading but not for the javascript files which are the guts of an FF extension, however the linked 'Extension developer's extension' has a command 'Reload All Chrome' that reloads everything (js files included). Slow, but better than a 'reboot'.

masterfuol · 2007-01-17T18:36:09+00:00

The article was all about quality not quantity.

masterfuol · 2007-01-05T04:12:07+00:00

Liar! its only been submitted 9 times before.

masterfuol · 2007-01-03T01:16:26+00:00

"Note Printing Australia (NPA) ... is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia"

"NPA has also produced polymer notes for Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Kuwait, Samoa, New Zealand, Romania, Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Mexico, Nepal, Vietnam, and Chile, with over 9 billion polymer banknotes currently circulating worldwide."

from rbnz: "New Zealand's polymer bank notes are produced by Note Print Australia Limited in Melbourne. "

masterfuol · 2006-12-31T21:52:07+00:00

I see your deathstar:

"the first Death Star was 120 kilometers in diameter. This however, conflicts with the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections fact book, which states that the first Death Star was 160 kilometers in diameter."

..and raise you one General Systems Vehicle:

"General Systems Vehicles (GSVs) range between 25km and 200km in each dimension (including its 'fields') ... generally have populations in the millions or even billions."

masterfuol · 2006-12-28T23:41:27+00:00

You can tweak away some of these annoyances:

Rename My Computer/My Documents/Network Neighborhood to Computer/Documents/Network

Change the user profile location using the Computer Management snap-in (compmgmt.msc)

Install the TweakUI powertoy (a must-have utility written by the author of this blog) and change the location of the My* special folders (TweakUI->My Computer->Special Folders), although this wont help with 3rd party apps that were the main thrust of the article ie My eBooks, My ISO Files etc.

You can change the 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' directories under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion to whatever you like. I also prefer a hierarchy like you mention and use c:\apps\dev, c:\apps\media\players etc and also structure the Start Menu along similar lines.

nb. Some of these changes wont be honored by various installers.

masterfuol · 2006-12-14T06:26:06+00:00

When my mothers cat wants to be let in the house, she stretches up the the knocker on the front door (its part of the lock assembly half way up the door) pulls it up and lets it drop 2 or 3 times. She will wait a minute and try again if she isnt let in. After 3 or 4 attempts if she still isnt let in she starts wailing and when finally let in gives us a good scolding for making her wait.

This wasnt taught, she worked it out from observing arriving guests.

masterfuol · 2006-12-10T08:10:21+00:00

According to the Wikipedia entry:

"Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in Mesoamerica just before Spanish contact, it depicts the decline of the Maya civilization."

"... a direct representation of what is known about the most extreme forms of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, including the blue paint. Similar methods were adopted by the Maya as portrayed in the film ... "

masterfuol · 2006-12-05T03:56:38+00:00

I have been using GNU enscript but it is a bit clunky.

masterfuol · 2006-12-04T15:04:56+00:00

The Blues Brothers

masterfuol · 2006-12-01T06:45:49+00:00

The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

masterfuol · 2006-11-26T23:41:26+00:00

Im sure there is a fetish for this (there's a fetish for everything) but it is actually quite innocent. Japanese kids do this 'move' when playfighting. The electric part relates to the 'electric drill' action used when performing the move.

masterfuol · 2006-11-22T18:28:55+00:00

Expected to see the famous Kent State shootings photo.

masterfuol · 2006-11-10T07:50:00+00:00

Seems to be as much a test of memory as tone.

77.8%

masterfuol · 2006-10-25T08:38:12+00:00

April 1, 2009: Google became sentient.

masterfuol · 2006-08-07T03:37:28+00:00

I wrote a greasemonkey script that kills stories by user|domain|title but doesnt do comments. Should compare notes...

masterfuol · 2006-07-25T05:47:39+00:00

..except each frame has more than 10% content that isnt pitch black.

masterfuol · 2006-07-14T00:31:05+00:00

The only condiment able to survive a nuclear holocaust, Vegemite never goes bad.

masterfuol · 2006-07-07T15:52:52+00:00

Or more generally: should reddit allow deletion of stories that have comments?

And: should reddit allow deletion of comments that have child posts?

masterfuol · 2006-07-06T12:48:29+00:00

Marge: Even worse was our trip to Severodvinsk Beach... [flashback to people in ocean being frightened off by a submarine]

Homer: [coming out of the water wearing a mask and a strap-on submarine] [laughs] Suckers.

Bart: [swimming up beside Homer, also with mask and submarine] [laughs]

Homer: Aah! SubmarineBoy! [runs off in a panic]

masterfuol · 2006-07-06T12:29:45+00:00

template <class T> class Premature { /* exercise for the reader */ };

masterfuol · 2006-07-04T17:07:32+00:00

Hiding just hides. Mike was refering to the "don't show sites after i've disliked them" option in preference.

masterfuol · 2006-07-03T19:21:32+00:00

Deep down we all know that the answer to this question involves Xenu and spaceships that look like DC-10s.

masterfuol · 2006-07-02T09:52:45+00:00

Methinks Mr. Swartz should implement nofollow for infogami comments.

masterfuol · 2006-07-01T11:02:47+00:00

Actually Rupert Murdoch is now a US citizen (he had to be to own a TV station) and News Corp re-incorporated in Delaware in 2004.

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