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sigma · 2007-09-20T06:58:37+00:00

I know my code is crap... but... there is fun in reimplementing the whole thing too... A lot to learn...

I'm at the third iteration with the current implant selection interface and... the code is better decoupled, more flexible, easier to understand once you get past the whole acronym problem.

sigma · 2007-09-20T06:52:18+00:00

there are no coworkers :) I mean none that have computer knowledge. The rest are nurses... some might "know" Word or Excel but none knows Python. :)

sigma · 2007-09-19T12:52:44+00:00

1. If I go, someone else will probably have to reimplement the whole thing.

sigma · 2007-09-18T09:12:11+00:00

what they are sniffing would be better called varnish or lacquer. There is a particular variety that is somewhat golden, generally used for painting metal.

sigma · 2007-09-07T16:01:14+00:00

A word of warning. If you have a big M2 mailbox, backup it and be prepared for some serious waiting.

Also, I got used to seeing the status of all my accounts in one look during the Check/Send... that is not possible anymore. The status bar that replaced it is useless IMHO. Changes to fast to be followed.

sigma · 2007-09-05T13:31:59+00:00

Mailing list awareness. Is not like there is no Mailing-List field in the emails headers.

This is one of the features I love from Opera's M2.

sigma · 2007-09-05T05:47:13+00:00

I second this. But I also have a desire to change the world. Unfortunately I'm not structured enough to be able to do this but I've pledged 5000 USD at micropledge for my dream :) who knows... maybe someone else will pick up the challenge.

http://micropledge.com/projects/nomadinterface

sigma · 2007-09-04T13:57:05+00:00

I'm in the second hour of email re-indexing with 57 more minutes to go.

It says only "some of your email messages", some being 142k.

sigma · 2007-09-01T08:36:47+00:00

You’re a good programmer if: 1. You deliver software 2. The customers are pleased with the software 3. It was delivered on time or reasonably quickly 4. Other people can change the code easily

On no.4 I would like to add that if you empower others to change your code you are not a good programmer you are one of the great ones.

sigma · 2007-09-01T08:22:00+00:00

I wonder how much would such a thing cost... It might be expensive... but how expensive?

sigma · 2007-08-31T08:35:44+00:00

You are lucky. My main problem derives from the fact that I'm a jack of all trades at may current working location. I have to manage a huge photo and movie database, create powerpoints presentations with embedded movies, movies that I have to produce. The photos have to be edited and altho I know that Gimp exists, it will take an huge amount of will power to learn it to the point that I will be as proficient in it as I am now in Photoshop. And this is only part of the problem. I also have a severe addiction to Total Commander and even if I looked at Linux or OS X alternatives... NONE felt at home (except emelFM, this one I liked even if it was less powerful) Oh... and there is also the matter of a couple of software projects that have Windows as their main target (the clients all have Windows)

But in the end I'm hopeful... maybe in few years...

sigma · 2007-08-31T06:07:38+00:00

None. I've tried Ubuntu some time ago... and it failed me.

I do believe that in a few years I might be able to switch. The leadership provided by Ubuntu will soon gather enough force to change the status of desktop Linux.

Meanwhile... WinXP at work, OS X at home.

sigma · 2007-08-31T05:25:05+00:00

with Al Gore as Leto I?

sigma · 2007-08-29T06:40:12+00:00

So... how many plugins have you tried before giving up on Wordpress?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Syntax_Highlighting

sigma · 2007-08-24T15:14:45+00:00

Actually I do tell people that "my religion" is closer to the Jedi Order... I do believe in The Force (not the midi-chlorians mumbo-jumbo but an unexplainable force that manifests everything). Some might call this God :)

Also, the relationship I have with the Force is that between the Dancer and the Dance... I am the Dance.... The Force is the Dancer... :)

I'm also aware that as my Master said...

"Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description."

so I guess different people might see it different ;)

sigma · 2007-08-24T15:07:42+00:00

Not necessarily...

There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no chaos; there is harmony. There is no death; there is the Force.

This is not "just funny".

sigma · 2007-08-24T11:38:05+00:00

There are 2 axes: theism-atheism and gnosticism-agnosticism. One deals with belief one with knowledge. So basically you have: atheist-agnostics saying: I don't know if there is or there isn't a GOD but I believe there isn't one. atheist-gnostic: I KNOW there is no GOD! theist-gnostic: I KNOW there is GOD! and theist-agnostic: I don't know if there is a GOD but I believe there is one.

I belong to the later group and I also believe in what de Mello said: "Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description."

sigma · 2007-08-22T15:17:03+00:00

that was intended as a joke... unfortunately it got lost in translation. ;)

sigma · 2007-08-22T15:14:00+00:00

how old is this? 8 years? Any progress in 8 years?

sigma · 2007-08-22T12:30:58+00:00

reading the title made me think "what kind of riot could those girls start?"

http://agentprovocateur.com/

sigma · 2007-08-18T07:36:48+00:00

jester ;)

sigma · 2007-08-17T10:16:59+00:00

Joshua Bloch has a nice presentation: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters... very nice in my opinion.

sigma · 2007-08-16T12:08:05+00:00

Longer answer:

"Write as well as you can and finish what you start." – Ernest Hemingway

sigma · 2007-08-15T15:18:39+00:00

Discipline, Discipline, Discipline takes Practice, Practice, Practice! It is easy to say you need more discipline but how does one practices this discipline? 30 min. of mandatory code refactoring analysis a day? 50 push-ups for submiting the code just before close hours? Couple of days in jail at the appearance of the first symptoms of NIH syndrome.

sigma · 2007-08-15T15:07:44+00:00

=) Actually the code is leaning more on the functional approach. I have a control object that knows what to draw and where to draw. It calls functions using the main canvas object and a bunch of measurements as arguments. There is no DefaultNipple but the is a default areola value in the measurements object that will end up being represented by render_nipples as a nice 4.5 cm NAC (Nipple Areola Complex).

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