November 2011
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I SEE UR USIN NON-FREE SOFTWARES :-( →
Here we see Richard Stallman arising from the Humber like some terrible sea monster about to wreak destruction on the propriety software industry of Hull.
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August 2011
1 post
“Every OS has its purpose. OSX, building webapps. Linux, running web apps....”
– Twitter / @TechScruggs (via azcode)
July 2011
1 post
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Int limit
Always heard of this a theoretical limit, but never seen it actually happen.
Yesterday our tables and Java code hit the max integer ID possible, 2,147,483,647 !
June 2011
1 post
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Netherlands makes net neutrality a law →
April 2011
2 posts
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A 75-year-old Georgian woman who says she has... →
The episode is a timely reminder that all it takes in our hi-tech world to shut down thousands of companies for a day is a determined old lady with a spade.
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US senators introduce online privacy 'bill of... →
Hey maybe it will be easier than browsing in private mode all the time…
March 2011
4 posts
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February 2011
1 post
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clientsfromhell:
Client: We have looked at your PHP source code and I am a little upset.
Me: Why is that? What’s wrong?
Client: You have used die(); everywhere, do you secretly want me to die?
January 2011
4 posts
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December 2010
2 posts
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An Easy Guide to Git! →
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November 2010
1 post
October 2010
4 posts
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Why CMSes suck for front-end developers →
azcode: (via Hacker News)
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ACK →
“I came across ack today, and now grep is sleeping outside. It’s very much like grep, except it assumes all the little things that you always wanted grep to remember, but that it never did. It actually left the light on for you, and put the toilet seat down.”
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Bank Teller: Let me know if this transfer doesnt go through by Monday
Me: Monday eh? Its Friday afternoon, this usually takes a couple of hours
Bank Teller: Well its raining today, you know how systems can get
Me: Yes, subways, cars, those sorts of things get a bit slower when it rains, but Im not so sure about electronics
Bank Teller: Computers are always very slow in rainy weather. I like to call it "turtle mode."
Me: /facepalm
September 2010
2 posts
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August 2010
3 posts
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How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords →
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“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to...”
– Steve Ballmer (via azspot)
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF WAR!
July 2010
4 posts
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Botnet hacker caught in Slovenia →
I seriously feel that many peoples from the former Soviet bloc states, and other Eastern European groups, are going to be very big, non-State, players in the next global conflict (at the cyber level).
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June 2010
3 posts
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Iphone Tutorial: Creating a RSS Feed Reader →
azcode:
Creating an RSS reader for iphone is a great way to learn about the language. In this tutorial we’re going to create a rss reader that can also play podcasts. Such application will require us to download and parse a rss feed, display the data in a table and play a remote podcast. In this article I assume a minimal knowledge of cocoa programming, but you should be able to follow even if...
May 2010
4 posts
New Programming Jargon →
insertname:cameronmoll:
Bugfoot: A bug that isn’t reproducible and has been sighted by only one person.
Duck: A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
Ghetto Code: A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the requirements.
/via @adactio
April 2010
5 posts
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jQuery.Syntax →
azcode:
jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter written in JavaScript. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines.
March 2010
7 posts
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How to Crack the Account Password on Any Operating... →
(via criminalwisdom)