The best way to listen to @NPR is definitely by apps and podcast. Thankfully, @WBEZ has their High Fidelity program to allow paying to keep this sort of thing going. #sustainability #payforwhatyouuse
BTW, you don’t need to use the #AmazonMP3 installer. You can get at the app via “Show Package Contents”.
Special editions of The Lord of The Rings movies were extra long to add all the bits that they had to leave out from the books.
Special edition of The Hobbit trilogy is going to be a single DVD where they cut all the extra stuff out.
Grooving and feeling my bathroom. Join in the musical awesomeness: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/08/365-Days-Project-08-20-american-standards-my-bathroom-is-a-private-kind-of-place-1969.mp3
Just heard a “those wacky foreigners” story on #NPR. Make me wonder what “those wacky Americans” stories are being reported elsewhere.
The first two days of “uncrowding” on @ctabrown does not seem to have done much.
#Chrome is “sensible-browser”?! I think not. #ubuntu
Tired of the having to use line continuations in #Ruby. Gimme mandatory semicolons.
Actually it makes sense that the nulls can’t make it through the *nix environment.
Tried #zsh. It keeps the nulls in the internal version of the variable, but results in the same thing being passed to child processes.
#bash internals question: What happens with «export FOO=$‘blah\0blah\0blah’»? Does the variable hold four bytes or fourteen?
«vim /proc/self/environ» shows only the four bytes are getting passed to children.
Dang. There was no dollar bill before the Civil War. Each bank had its own currency.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/07/166747693/episode-421-the-birth-of-the-dollar-bill
Work today is consisting primarily of sitting around thinking about “should I do X and what are the implications of that?”.
Lines of code written/modified/deleted: 0/0/0.
Comparing sound from an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5 by playing the AirMech soundtrack on both simultaneously. Actually sounds pretty good despite being slightly out of sync. Being all instrumental doesn’t hurt. #frontlineassembly #FLA
Released #Fig v0.2.3, which requires #Ruby v1.9.2.
No more Ruby v1.8, woohoo! I get to use splat everywhere now!
Slow removal of “can’t do X because Ruby 1.8 doesn’t support it” comments in the code commencing.
Hooray for promoting pedestrian use of streets. [youtube.com/watch #chicago #cityplanning #heywatchwhereyouregoing
Birds chirping like nuts outside. You’d think it was Spring.
#Adobe won’t fix #Linux video bug in #Flash; they keep closing tickets. How to deal with it? Modify the video library to detect whether it is being called from Flash and flip RGB input around if so. http://j.mp/XqDzER
Oh, wow. K&R-style C function declarations. #bash
#bash:
Inside double square brackets, == and != are not string equivalence tests, but glob pattern match tests, i.e. «[[ x == ? ]]» returns 0.
You can quote the right-hand-side to escape metacharacters: «[[ $X == ‘?’ ]]»
#bash: “Because the extglob option changes the way certain characters are parsed, it is necessary to have a newline (not just a semicolon) between the shopt command and any subsequent commands that use extended globs.” http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob