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Abstractions-R-Us: Windows Command Prompt Keeps Up with One Current Directory Per Drive
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Windows Command Prompt Keeps Up with One Current Directory Per Drive. Or so it seems. This is copied from a console window on a machine running Windows Server 2003:. C: Documents and Settings jyoung cd E: InetPub web sites. C: Documents and Settings jyoung cd "E: InetPub web sites". C: Documents and Settings jyoung cd e:. E: InetPub web sites. C: Documents and Settings jyoung e:. E: InetPub web sites. Oddly, using the /d. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Abstractions-R-Us: September 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009. Joel Spolsky Has an Interesting Idea of Duct Tape. Reveals a strange notion of what a "duct tape programmer" is. Multithreading is a fact of life sometimes, but should not be used for performance alone without sufficient reason. What "faddish programming craziness" do practical programmers "sheepishly go along with"? No answer to this question is explicitly given in the original article, but Joel does proceed to tear about ideas that have passed into common usage.
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Abstractions-R-Us: July 2013
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Thursday, July 25, 2013. Box2dweb, Refactored for Flexibility and Enterprisiness. I wanted to try my hand at making a physics-based HTML 5 game, so I thought I would start by refactoring the b ox2dweb demo. What I have created so far is a refactored version of the demo. With a couple minor behavior changes that have to do with the first game I want to create with it) with a broken Maven build. :) The components so far are:. Entry point for loading modules. Creates the entities- anything with location in ...
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Abstractions-R-Us: April 2009
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Saturday, April 11, 2009. Pictures Are Worth More Than Words. When desiring to open a door, if it has a handle, I pull. If it has a panel, I push. This is true regardless of any sign that may be on the door that says "Pull" or "Push"- I obey the real-world object before I even read the sign. Push on the door to walk through. But I will always. Pull the handle otherwise. Then one of the store employees comes to open the door for me and says "You have to push on it," and I feel stupid. I hope most people k...
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Abstractions-R-Us: June 2010
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Friday, June 25, 2010. Do your work, or throw an exception - example. Gave an illustration of a employee telling his manager if he cannot do his work as usual instead of requiring his manager to ask him if he will start doing what is expected of him every time she asks him to. Below is a code example of this idea that I posted on StackOverflow. Throw new CantDoWorkException();. REPL(); / read eval print loop, for example. Catch (TransientException e) {. Contrast this with proper usage of BadEmployee:.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010. Just got an email from Amazon that says "Save up to 50% on Summer and Back-to-School Toys". Somehow, I think the category was pieced together by a bot, since I don't know what a back-to-school toy is. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just got an email from Amazon that says Save up t. I am a follower of Christ, the undeservedly blessed husband of Natasha Young. And a software developer at S1. I also write software for Crown Financial Ministries. And Small World Technologies.
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Abstractions-R-Us: September 2011
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011. Just Use a Saw. I discovered something profoundly usesless today: When you combine a square wave at amplitude 2x, pitch y with a sawtooth at amplitude x, pitch 2y, the result is a sawtooth at amplitude 2x, pitch y, when the two waves are in phase with each other. Square(2a,p) saw(a,2p) = saw(2a,p). A sawtooth wave (http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtooth wave) contains every integer harmonic n at amplitude a/n where a is the amplitude of the fundamental. So, the square wave pro...
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Abstractions-R-Us: May 2010
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Thursday, May 13, 2010. Do your work, or throw an exception. Imagine this: My car breaks down, and I cannot make it to work. Should I inform my boss that I will not do my work as usual, or wait until she asks me if I will come to work? Should she ask me every day if I will do my work as usual? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Do your work, or throw an exception. I am a follower of Christ, the undeservedly blessed husband of Natasha Young. And a software developer at S1. And Small World Technologies.
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Abstractions-R-Us: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. In Practice" is just a theory too. In the software development industry in particular, the phrase in practice. Is used to mean true. In contrast to in theory. Which is a patronizing way of saying false, but well-intentioned. The phrase in practice. Precedes a theory just as much as the prhase in theory. Don't use in practice. Is a theory, too. Ok, enough italics for one day. :). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In Practice is just a theory too. And a software developer at S1.
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Abstractions-R-Us: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Apples have a sweetness similar to that of tomatoes. "Self," I thought to myself one day, "if I add an apple to this tomato sauce, will it round out / complete the flavor of the tomato? So I tried adding an apple to a simple pasta sauce, and replied to myself "Self, this isn't quite right. but you're on to something! After a few iterations, here's what I have come up with: Saute the following to the desired doneness and serve over pasta:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
