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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

From here:

Brent Coker, who studies online behavior at the University of Melbourne in Australia, found that people who engage in “workplace Internet leisure browsing” are about 9 percent more productive than those who don’t.

I knew that.

posted @ Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:06 AM | Feedback (0)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Repost: Git Commit

From xkcd:

posted @ Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:15 PM | Feedback (0)

Friday, November 15, 2013

Breaking Visual Studio

I haven’t checked to see if this affects all versions of VS, but logging it in case I do it again.

I started getting “function evaluation disabled because a previous function evaluation timed out” and “children could not be evaluated” errors when debugging, at which point, debugging would then halt after a few seconds. Needless to say, this was somewhat annoying, and nothing seemed to be logged anywhere to explain why.

What had happened was that I had created a property of a class that was recursive, in such a way that it was ‘infinitely’ recursive, so I imagine it was causing some out of memory error somewhere inside of Visual Studio.

Once the property was fixed, the problems went away.

posted @ Friday, November 15, 2013 1:49 PM | Feedback (0)

Monday, November 11, 2013

Repost: Simple Answers

From xkcd

posted @ Monday, November 11, 2013 9:56 AM | Feedback (0)

Thursday, October 31, 2013

An important life lesson for software developers

Tekpub has been acquired by Pluralsight.

But that’s not the lesson. Read this part:

“I tried those things and some of them worked, some didn't but all in all things were going along just fine... until...

This last summer I spent a good solid month with my family, taking some time away from production and general business "stuff" - it was the longest time I've been away from work since... I don't know when. It was one of the best vacations I've ever had and my wife and kids noticed the change in me and they loved it. I wish I could bold/highlight/expand that last part to give it all the gravity in the world. I've asked a lot of my family over the last 5 years, and I forgot what it was to be "dad" and "Rob" without the constant stress of running my own business.”

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure it out.

posted @ Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:41 AM | Feedback (0)

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A message to ESPN.Com : No means no

In ESPN’s never ending quest to suck at just about everything they do, they consistently refuse to honor requests to turn autoplay OFF when you load some of their web pages.

Oh, you can switch it OFF. For a while. But at some point, lo and behold, autoplay is magically ON again.

Knock it off, douchebags.

And by the way, they aren’t ‘cold hard facts’ when they aren’t, you know, FACTS.

posted @ Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:15 AM | Feedback (0)

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Maybe they shouldn’t have used backbone

From here, around line 6000:

var MasterBBView = Backbone.View.extend({
el : $("body"),

loginView : registrationLoginBBView,

registrationView : registrationRegistrationBBView,

forgotPasswordDetailsView : registrationForgotPasswordDetailsBBView,

resetPasswordView : registrationResetPasswordBBView,

expiredPasswordView : registrationExpiredPasswordBBView,

registrationResultsView : registrationRegistrationResultsBBView,

forgotUsernameDetailsView : registrationForgotUsernameDetailsBBView,

loginTermsView : registrationLoginTermsAndConditionsBBView,

forgotUsernameResultsView : registrationForgotUsernameResultsBBView,

passwordChallengeView : registrationForgotPasswordChallengeQuestionBBView,

forgotPasswordResultsView : registrationForgotPasswordResultsBBView,

    registrationModel : registrationRegistrationBBModel,

    verifyEmailAddress : registrationEIDMIntegrationVerifyEmailAddressEIDMAccountBBModel,

    securityQuestionsModel : registrationEIDMIntegrationFetchSecurityQuestionsEIDMAccountBBModel,

    userSpecSecurityQuestionsModel : registrationEIDMIntegrationFetchUserSpecSecurityQuestionsEIDMAccountBBModel,

    validationRulesModel : registrationEIDMIntegrationFetchValidationRulesEIDMAccountBBModel,

registrationStepOneView : registrationRegistrationStepOneBBView,

registrationStepTwoView : registrationRegistrationStepTwoBBView,

    registrationConfirmUserLoginModel : registrationEIDMIntegrationConfirmUserLoginBBModel,

    registrationStepThreeView : registrationRegistrationStepThreeBBView,

    //directEnrollmentModel : DirectEnrollmentBBModel,

    isDirectEnrollmentConsumerModel : IsDirectEnrollmentConsumerBBModel
});

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posted @ Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:36 AM | Feedback (0)

Monday, October 07, 2013

Well, that explains it: Ducks.; posted @ Monday, October 07, 2013 9:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

King Crimson is in motion

From here:

“So, King Crimson is in motion. This is a very different reformation to what has gone before: seven players, four English and three American, with three drummers.”

That’s a nice greeting to the morning.

posted @ Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:33 AM | Feedback (0)

Monday, September 23, 2013

Rhetorical question: does Google’s homepage have a bug?

Go to http://google.com and, without entering any text in the search box, click the “Google Search” button. Observe what happens.

Is this a bug?

posted @ Monday, September 23, 2013 9:45 AM | Feedback (3)