I am so delighted YouTube and Apple are using the forward-thinking HTTP 402.
Looks like this group wants to make 402s more commonplace? More power to ‘em.
Am I a fool for living my whole life thinking “Seymour Johnson” was someone you paged for middle school laughs, and not an Air Force Base?
Because it’s the cool thing to do, I’ve created a github account to track all my dotfiles: check it.
I’ve tried to make it painless to initialize on a fresh box; just check it out (git clone git://github.com/aphahn/dotfiles.git) and run ./create_symlinks.py. It won’t overwrite any dotfiles you have, and will symbolic link to the repo. Additionally .vimrc and .zshrc will source a .vimrclocal or .zshrclocal, respectively, if they exist. This is useful for having machine-specific customizations.
Finally, I have unified configurations across my machines! No more remembering what changes I made on my work box when I’m at home! No more emailing people copies of my .vimrc when they ask for a good starting point!
Vim, my favorite editor, is very powerful, but notoriously hard to learn. For some reason, I wanted to see if some emacs lovers had mockingly written about teaching vim to their grandmas. Googling for “explaining vim to my grandma” surprisingly brought up something useful (and vim positive): Vim Command of the Weekday, or so.
I didn’t think I’d ever hear of a song with more versions than “High School U.S.A.” on the Hot 100, but I guess I’m wrong.
Since so much of rap is “making it” yourself, I guess there’s bound to be more shoutouts to the music industry itself.
(I couldn’t find a good repository of lyrics for any other genre, but I’m guessing that this is a lot of mentions of both major broadcast licensers.)
P.S.: If you can find it, De La Soul’s “Live @ the Dugout 87” is tight. It was on some mixtape I have, but I can’t remember which one…
Wow, how convenient! A Samsung store at Apple headquarters!
Listening to Pandora today, I saw a sad sight: a poorly written regular expression let loose on the world.
The “about this artist” tab showed the following (excerpt):
Nappy Roots began making music together at a local record shop-c*m-studio named ET’s Music, and released their full-length debut, Country Fried Cess, in 1998.
What? “shop-c*m-studio”?
It took me a second to realize that someone wrote a regular expression (perhaps \bcum\b) assuming that every instance of the word “cum” was… obscene, and not thinking about the combining preposition.
Perhaps this isn’t a case of bad regular expressions, but a bigger statement about the word. Maybe the implementor of the regular expression thought it was dirty. Do kids today know this word has some other (more legitimate) meaning? At least x-cum-y is pronounced differently (koŏm) than the obscene word (kəm). On the other hand, “anal” (as in “anal-retentive”) is pronounced the same as the other anatomical adjective, and we don’t snicker when we hear that… do we?
Learn Terminal.app tips, tricks, and history from one of its authors, Ben Stiglitz (who kind of reminds me of the Micro Machines guy).
[via Visor, the absolutely essential Terminal.app companion]
Google Chrome has one of the best bug labels I’ve ever seen: SuperAnnoying.
