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For some reason [Apr. 29th, 2009|01:42 am]
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This snippet overheard on IRC fills me with fear:

it works! i should add "|"(pipe) to the command, and i can execute it!
print((new File("|curl http://google.com/")).readAll());


Only SpiderMonkey people will understand why, exactly.
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Awesome poem [Apr. 13th, 2009|01:20 pm] 
Why I Did Not Reign
Eve Merriam A Sky Full of Poems, 1973

I longed to win the spelling bee
And I remembered the rule
I had learned in school:

"I before E,
Except after C."

Friend, believe me,
No one was going to deceive me.

Fiercely, I practiced, the scepter I'd wield,
all other their shields in the field would yield!

Alas, before my very eyes
A weird neighbor in a beige veil
Feigning great height and weighty size
Seized the reigns and ran off with the prize.

Now I no longer deign to remember that rule.
Neither
Any other either.
Reminds me of The Wonderful O, with its clever (non-)use of the letter O in the sections talking about the tyrant.


Hat tip to this LJ post.

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Google, still not as evil as Apple [Apr. 1st, 2009|11:36 pm]
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/01/2224244 tells a story of Google having to ban an application. Slashdot says Maybe Android and the Android Market aren't so open after all. But the difference is that Google is pointing to a ToS with a clear reason that the application is not allowed on T-Mobile phones. As I understand it, Apple waves its hands and some nebulous rule stops your application isn't allowed (and these rules can apparently be retracted, otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy iFart now).
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A really unfortunate sentence [May. 11th, 2008|12:27 am]
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Seen at this YouTube video: Movie remake coming in 2008 starring Keanu Reeves.

I cannot think of a more unfortunate sentence for a movie (with all due respect to Keanu Reeves, he should really stick to "whoa" characters who don't know what's going on and/or are high).
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What you *don't* want to see working on your project [Apr. 22nd, 2008|02:37 pm]
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mrbkap@screwdriver:~/tmp/430proj$ bin/example input/nodes15density2size100.txt >/tmp/output
*** stack smashing detected ***: bin/example terminated
Aborted (core dumped)


Fortunately, the cause here was easy to spot and easy to fix.
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