I’ll let Justice Kennedy take it from here.
It looks like Chadha enjoys the American life today! That great story aside, I still just can’t imagine Anthony Kennedy going to Tower Records for some CDs, though…
]]>Another one of those great blogs in my Google Reader that never has more than one unread post. Encore!
]]>Answer: 3 days 4 hours of continuous travel (including a 662-mile ferry ride!)
The starting ZIP of 00501 is a special one given to the IRS. However, it turns out you can’t easily get to Nowhere, AK’s 99950, according to Google, so I had to settle for Ward Cove’s 99928:
]]>Forget no more with Don’t Say Biz! Just tap a stat’s number when it happens. (Works great on iPhone, too!) Little markers show up indicating each event, positioned horizontally according to when it happened:
Red markers correspond to the right side (like phono jacks) and are animated using CSS3. And, yes, before you ask: it is HTMLBiz.
]]>Thanks to its Autocalc function the editor, the compiler, the linker and the runtime environment are integrated on such a high level that is unpaired among current tools. After changing a formula in a cell the result is visible immediately without the need for performing the steps mentioned above. Programmers don’t have to save, compile, link and run the executable and there is no need even to switch the active window.
Now, normally, the words “Excel engine files” should send you running, but I appreciated the paradigm shift and the author trying to bring some sexy to the (decidedly unsexy) spreadsheets.
]]>Returns the square root of (number * pi).
So trivial is SQRTPI’s implementation, I don’t know why it was ever included as a core worksheet function. Where is this function even useful? Tenth-grade geometry students’ spreadsheets?
Thinking more led me to the conclusion that these core functions must be:
I’m sure everyone on the Excel team agrees with me on this, too; SQRTPI has no business being in the core spreadsheet functions, yet I’m sure its justification is “backward compatibility.” Now the question is not, “Why is SQRTPI in Excel?” but, “When did SQRTPI first get added to spreadsheet applications’ repertoire?” Anybody know?
Some API writer has infected us with SQRTPI, probably without thinking twice about it. It’s not the worst outcome in the world, but now we have this to show for that programmer’s lack of forethought.
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Come on. That’s just touching.
]]>Mystery Science Theater had such a small circle of followers even at its peak that those who became one of them felt a responsibility to the show: to preserve it, to preach it. If you were a true fan, you didn’t just watch MST3K back in the ’90s, you taped it. And you didn’t set your VCR, you watched it while you were taping it, with your finger poised over the remote’s pause button so you could zap the commercials.
Indeed, I have very fond memories watching friends’ tapes, recording my own, and biking the tapes over to another friend’s to watch—so much damn fun.
]]>Why not use this distinction to your advantage? I follow this rule:
console.log("Hello, World!")$('p').show('slow')Tell your team and unify all those quotes! It creates consistency, and also gives a hint to future developers as to what’s going on.
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]]>Looks like this group wants to make 402s more commonplace? More power to ‘em.
]]>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!
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