September 2007
117 posts
btucker: work day @ the 61C. Enjoying the björk album they’re playing.
btucker: it’s amazing how spending a bunch of time programming in a functional language (ML in my case) changes the ways you approach problems in OOP
“If you care about your rights, don’t buy an iPhone.”
– Machinist
The management philosophy of Craigslist CEO Jim... →
btucker: yay, facebook opened up one new thing today: users.setStatus now exists. About freaking time.
btucker: hating on Apple for their iPhone shenanigans which all come down to corporate greed. I really hope they take it on the chin for this.
btucker: getting seriously sidetracked into developing a protocol for a decentralized twitter-like network. working out how to scale “update pings”.
btucker: contemplating Django for a new project. Also getting excited about the pgh perl workshop in a couple weeks. looks like a great lineup.
btucker: how am I supposed to learn about bit stuffing when every bit sequence in my head sounds like the binary solo in “The Humans Are Dead”?
TechCrunch Goof: Google Plugs Google Reader For... →
Mildly amused that techcrunch could get something so very wrong. (tried to correct them in the comments).
Why does Apple get a free ride? →
btucker: stuck at the café due to a thunderstorm
btucker: wow, AAPL’s back over 150. I wonder if I’ll be able to retire on my $200 high school investment some day. haha
btucker: @bkeepers, what happened to waiting for v2? ;-) Enjoy!
btucker: learning about theoretical transmission limits
btucker: @brandtkurowski what’s your iPhone email setup? Did you solve syncing in some way?
Still waiting on my toaster
Number of GreenRiver.org folks using Macs (besides me) upon my arrival in 2002: 0
Number of GreenRiver.org folks using Macs as of today: 4
btucker: recovering after a few crazy days. Much better now, though I do have one more assignment I’ve been putting off that’s due tomorrow
btucker: learning that eating spicy indian food right before biking uphill for 2 miles in 85º heat is a Bad Idea.
btucker: eating perogies and writing variable length argument functions in c
btucker: … “I think you can in Europe.”
btucker: remembering line from “10 Things I Hate About You”: “You can be overwhelmed and you can underwhelmed, but can you be just whelmed?” …
btucker: feeling a bit overwhelmed, but that’s okay
btucker: okay, I promise to shut up about svk after this, but I just can’t suppress my continued admiration for what it accomplishes.
btucker: studying ConnectedVentures & their success. Looks like IAC had some great foresight to pick them up when it did.
btucker: listening to Alan Greenspan on Fresh Air. Very interested stuff.
“I just could not bring myself to tell an entire group of people in our community...”
– Jerry Sanders, Republican Mayor of San Diego, giving a very moving speech on his change of position on gay marriage. If there’s one thing you watch today, watch this.
btucker: wondering what it means that everyone I meet or overhear talking in pittsburgh is either a student, or was born and raised here.
btucker: Totally loving the new faux-GPS capability of the iPhone: http://tinyurl.com/yoa8sn
btucker: Word back from google: it’s a bug and it’s been sent to the engineering team.
btucker: writing tests for untested code
btucker: Dealing with google adsense support after discovering either a significant accounting bug, or that they have under paid me for 4 years.
btucker: astounded twitter forcibly changed the name of @techcrunch40 to @NotTechcrunch40. I’m sure they were within their rights, but still…
btucker: @Ellis just single handedly bumped zocdoc from 39th into 18th place on mozes by voting. http://tinyurl.com/2mdsja
btucker: whohoo… it’s tomorrow already: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
PCMag reviews BibMe.org →
BibMe.org - Automated bibliography generator... →
You spend all night punching out a 10 page paper and just when you think the worst is over, you come to the horrible realization that you still need to make a “works cited” list. This forces you to hunt down your references and figure out the proper format to use. Luckily there are services online that can make this easy.
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My inbox NOT to fill up with following notifications
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btucker: hrm.. apparently my computer has decided I’m no-longer an “administrator” of it.
btucker: enjoying delicious tea & scones while working @ Té Café
btucker: having fun being distracted by #tc40 on freenode scroll past on the iphone.
btucker: awesome (if snarky) tc40 commentary: @TechCrunch40
btucker: getting swarmed by fire engines for no apparent reason
Long Now: The Arguments for Nuclear Power →
Ben: so, uh, remember when I said I'd just revert your router if anything went wrong..... well.... haven't been able to get it to boot, yet... doh! There are still a few reset tricks I haven't tried, so it may come back from the dead. But I ordered you a new one (the linux-based linksys... which is supposed to be the best, most reliable) in case it's a ugly blue and black paper weight now. okay... feel free to pile on the "told you so"'s now :)
Chang: Hahaha
Ben: :P
Chang: Reverting to the old firmware isn't working, eh?
Ben: it's not responding to pings... which makes it hard to load the old firmware back on
Chang: Ah
Ben: I found instructions for doing it with a little soldering, though... which could be a fun project. may attempt one of these days
Chang: Do you have a soldering iron?
Ben: nope
Chang: That could be interesting then...
Ben: real men solder with matches
Chang: headdesk
Ben: lol
btucker: converting prototype.js code to horror known as fbjs