January 2010
33 posts
December 2009
47 posts
Hey Zed: Musashi grep Style
Re: The Book of Five Rings and The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-Life - The fast sword and the slow sword are the short sword and the long sword. The short is quick, the long is slow. For text search, the short sword is ack and the long sword is grep. More accurately, the long is `g+?`, an alias for `find . | xargs grep -sn “$1” | grep -v “.svn” | grep -v...
I’ve been listening to all these “Make Money Fast!” mp3s, and I switched it up and listened to a couple tech mp3s. The first one was OK, it’s a successful entrepreneur talking to another entrepreneur who had a home run (six figures a month) which completely fell apart on him. But the second was so fucking stupid. Two wannabe entrepreneurs talking to a 19-yr-old who started...
Interface design on the web: always remember that you don’t have complete control and your design doesn’t exist in isolation. I just had to post something to Tumblr twice, because it ghosts your “create post” button in order to show off a little Ajax niftiness. But the Ajax nifty doesn’t even work, if your WiFi happens to have some tiny inexplicable momentary hiccup,...
scene idea. guy goes to the doctor. “I got pain in my milf-plunger. something’s wrong with my sperm cannon. my fuck-piston aches.” doctor and nurse refer to it as his penis throughout. then they give him anaesthetic and operate. everybody in the operating chamber uses ridiculous terms to refer to the dong. then they bring him out of anaesthesis and they use “penis”...
What I like about Google Docs is not just that a startup set out to destroy Microsoft Word by giving it away for free on the Web, because Microsoft was mean - but that it only took them about six months to do it. I mean yeah it took a little longer than that, but they had a perfectly good replacement for all the essential functionality in that time, and I don’t think anybody misses the...
“It’s predictive, it’s elegant, it has to be true. But we have no idea what it...”
– re: eureqa
