Spoiler alert: toString has its mitts in everything. This all started when we saw a candidate put the following into an exercise we had given him: if (arrayToTest == ”) Our first thought was well that seems wrong… And though it seems like something that shouldn’t work, it did–when the array contained a single item, […]
There’s a scene–about halfway through the novel–when Paul says to Maya: “I want you to prove to me that you’re not human yet still an artist.” Right there? That’s basically your thematic thesis. It has been my observation that a lot of folks get introduced to Bruce Sterling by way of the Mirrorshades anthology 1 […]
I think it’s safe to say at this point that my photo-a-day 365 Project that I set as a 2011 goal, has turned into a casualty of circumstances. It seemed like a fun idea when I started it but it didn’t take long for it to begin feeling like a chore. I want photography to […]
Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 at search.cpan.org — short version: "Thar be dragons here." (tagged: programming language linguistics interesting essay ) What the Heck is Shadow DOM? at Dimitri Glazkov (tagged: javascript css html5 webdev DOM ) Lest We Forget (Or How I Learned What’s So Bad About Browser Sniffing) on FarukAt.eÅŸ — hot on the heels of the […]
animated GIFs MegaTraveller 2 quests haiku for Two-Face Also, this blog right here is still on top of the Google search results for “zombie phobia”. Hells yeah. “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors […]
New Rules For Writers: Ignore Publicity, Shun Crowds, Refuse Recognition And More by Anis Shivani at HuffPo (tagged: writing philosophy fiction books publishing todo ) How to Publish Your Book on Amazon Kindle (tagged: publishing Amazon DIY ) Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane at Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) — […]
Recently, Nicholas Zakas wrote a blog post about switching from “embedded links” to footnotes. His decision was largely in response to some data cited in Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows 1; of those data, Carr writes: The test subjects who read the pages linearly actually scored considerably higher on a subsequent comprehension test than those […]
…or: a reprise of the “thoughts on replacing our iMac G5” thread. Though discussed here before, I think that this is the real thing this time. As Malkovich 1 approaches its sixth year of service, it is getting close to completely shitting the bed. Gone are the days of the annoying random shutdowns, but they […]
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare by Rick Ungar at Forbes (tagged: economy politics HCR ) Mark Bouton Appointed to New Robert B. Lawson Professorship in Psychology Congrats to Dr. Bouton–he's a hell of a guy; and so is Dr. Lawson, whom the professorship honors. (tagged: Vermont ) Noodle Soup […]