| Friday, October 5th, 2007 |
| 5:07 pm |
On iPhones and bRicks
Some Apple fans say that the iPhone breakage was an innocent side-effect of a reasonable way to upgrade firmware:
a "just wipe the whole system clean and re-install the new one from scratch" installer is far easier to write than a "let's carefully update only those files that are new and leave everything else, including third-party stuff we don't even know about, in place" installer
-- http://daringfireball.net/2007/10/cancel_computerYes, but that's not what they did. If they had done it that way, people would have been complaining about their newly locked phones instead of their bricks. ( cut for geekiness ) |
| Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 |
| 6:39 pm |
An example of the problems with C++
I was talking with my roomie about learning to program and how it seems everyone's first program is hello world. I thumbed through my copy of Stroustrup 2/e looking for it. On page ( 5? 10? 20? ), after discussion of classes and (passive-object) OO, I found it. |
| Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 |
| 9:30 pm |
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| Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 |
| 11:43 pm |
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| Monday, August 27th, 2007 |
| 7:33 pm |
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| Saturday, August 25th, 2007 |
| 4:39 pm |
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| Saturday, August 18th, 2007 |
| 8:13 pm |
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| Monday, July 30th, 2007 |
| 11:13 pm |
I was simultaneously on-site and off-site today, depending on who you asked. |
| Saturday, June 16th, 2007 |
| 6:27 pm |
Your search - "orphan foreskins" - did not match any documents.
Chyra: Wow, that's cool. I wonder what those gloves are made of. Me: Probably the finest kid. Chyra: Orphan foreskins. Me: Hrm. I shall have to post to LJ again. [and then I noticed that I'd tyoped `shall' above as `snall', then noticed what a disaster it was to make two nearby letters look so similar, then found that the usual word that turns into `snall' is `small', which looks nothing alike.] |
| Sunday, June 18th, 2006 |
| 7:50 am |
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| Thursday, July 22nd, 2004 |
| 9:58 pm |
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| Monday, May 10th, 2004 |
| 12:05 am |
hrm.
Maybe these random generators do know about me. I thought the negs of the cosplay were destroyed though! ( Survey says... ) Current Mood:  amused |
| Monday, April 5th, 2004 |
| 3:32 am |
yawn.
I'm home now, about to crash. Current Mood:  exhausted |
| Sunday, March 7th, 2004 |
| 9:32 pm |
The Exorcist. In 30 seconds. With bunnies. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: tubular bells |
| Monday, February 16th, 2004 |
| 3:05 am |
Home
I'm back in Raleigh in one piece. I go sleep now. |
| Monday, December 1st, 2003 |
| 7:05 pm |
Python puzzler
What happens when I click on the foo button?
from Tkinter import *
root=Tk()
def doit(x):
print x
for name in ['foo', 'bar']:
Button(text=name, command=lambda:doit(name)).pack()
root.mainloop()
( Read more... ) Current Mood:  aggravated |
| Friday, August 22nd, 2003 |
| 10:16 pm |
C is fun.
Assume minimum legal sizes for integral data types.
unsigned char c;
unsigned long u;
c=0xff;
u=c<<8;
Now what's u?
( the surprising answer ) |
| Friday, August 15th, 2003 |
| 4:58 pm |
Quickest hangup evar!
Them: May I speak to mispronounce($BOSS)? Me: May I ask who's calling? Them: Casey with First National Information Service. Me: This sounds like a marketing call. Them: click. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: reverse analog control channel bursts |
| Wednesday, April 9th, 2003 |
| 11:24 pm |
So I was writing a bunch of packet decoding cruft at work and realized PPP is missing a feature.
If the peer is unable to discard the data as requested, it MAY return the
data in a Discard-Reject. The implementation MUST stop sending
Discard-Requests as soon as possible after receiving a Discard-Reject.
Current Mood: accomplished |
| Friday, April 4th, 2003 |
| 1:04 am |
A certain piece of software came up on irc, <egrep:#unix> which is like swatting a mosquito with a chainsaw. <egrep:#unix> you're likely to get bloody AND not hit the mosquito |