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12/04/2008 13:16 #46954

Awesome.
Category: internets
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My hair is almost long enough to do that to ;)

Halloween costume next year?
jacob - 12/05/08 00:16
That is wild!
paul - 12/04/08 19:01
Oops, I lied I see it now, my internet connection just went down for a min.
paul - 12/04/08 19:01
hm what happend to your pic. Can you try again or send it to me so I can test with it.

11/29/2008 18:06 #46882

HAPPY FACE
Sort of.

Home very very soon.

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fellyconnelly - 11/29/08 18:40
yeah that doesn't look too happy
james - 11/29/08 18:20
That looks like you need to water your face with coffee so it can grow into a happy one.
paul - 11/29/08 18:08
If that is your happy face, I would hate to see the sad one, lol.

11/26/2008 13:26 #46851

Vacation
Category: life
I'm sick. Of course, I'm on vacation. Why can't I be sick at a time I could use my sick leave?

That's all.
tinypliny - 11/26/08 20:54
Hope you get well soon!! Good Luck and happy holidays!
james - 11/26/08 16:25
Feel better quickly.
gardenmama - 11/26/08 15:14
It sucks to be sick when on vacation - but it especially sucks to be sick on vacation/holiday. Hope you feel better soon.

11/16/2008 00:29 #46701

Worst iPhone App Yet?
Category: technology
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matthew - 11/21/08 14:43
OMG! I need that app!
metalpeter - 11/16/08 11:06
With out following the link I did see an add for this, my 1st thought was cool a baby monitor, but could it be used for other things like stalking or maybe something fun and kinky?
carolinian - 11/16/08 10:03
Damn, someone beat me to it!
paul - 11/16/08 09:56
You could use it to monitor anyone, not just a baby, hm.
drew - 11/16/08 09:26
I don't know. Seems cool to me. It would make it way to easy to turn your iphone into a motion detecting bomb detonator though.

11/15/2008 12:27 #46697

Bug Fix
Category: programming
I love open source, we had a problem in a vendor library and we fixed it ourselves. If we had to wait for someone else to do it, who knows how long it would've been broken.



It was only a change to a couple lines of code, but it was very hard to track down. It took me and a co-worker a day of pair programming to narrow it down and figure out what to change, but damn it feels good to have done. And to have our specs and continuous integration running reliably again.

It was like 4 layers deep worth of metaprogramming. I feel like I know our spec library very, very well now. :)

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zobar - 11/15/08 17:44
The worst is when you find a bug in a platform library only to realize that it isn't practical to distribute and rely on a nonstandard build. [I'm looking at you, Flex 3.]

- Z
paul - 11/15/08 12:31
Ya, I have no idea why people still buy closed source solutions.