January 2009
88 posts
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve...”
– Rita Rudner (via overflowing)
“The second two Matrices blew, though.”
– Overheard in West Village H (the computer science building) - yes, they’re talking about the movies.
The East Coast-West Coast Internet Rivalry
midoriw:
topherchris:
Let the line be drawn: I represent the East Coast both in geography and spirit, along with all the fine people of New York and of course, Tumblr HQ. In this scenario, I suppose that means Bad Boy Records could be Tumblr, Inc. So, some Eastside heavies would be Tumblr, Connected Ventures (College Humor), IAC (Vimeo, 592 others), muxtape, iminlikewithyou, Huffington Post,...
Watch us NURD out live for the next hour or two! →
aaaand we’re done. Check back next week! We’re trying to go HD.
(I’ve changed the link to point to a recording from the main camera.)
This is insane, and awesome. I applaud loudly. →
“My entire life feels like a bad flashback sometimes.”
– Me, sarcastically & to no one in particular
“You should be having bad flashbacks right now.”
– Prof. Riccardo Pucella, while demonstrating how to prove equivalence using binomial expansion
People who need help
Just like me!
Link courtesy of M. Some favorites:
I wish life had a Quicksave button. I would push it everytime my wife starts a conversation; who knows when she will get offended by something I said unwittingly?
Programming teaches you that the universe is predictable and deterministic. I’ve personally found that this has shaped my expectations and fed my impatience with people and...
I used to pay so much on eBay for discontinued... →
TUMBLR! What's YOUR iPod's Name?
midoriw:
inky:
supersonicelectronic:
“Basestar” - fits with my BSG theme. My server at home was called “Galactica” before it was decommissioned, my laptop is called “Pegasus”, and my desktop is called “Raptor”. Oh yeah, and my Airport base station broadcasts “Resurrection Ship” (because if you’re not near it, your soul...
I want to see this. →
Readability and naming conventions in open source...
I’m debugging some of the echo cancellation code in libspeex because Teamwork uses it as a low-bandwidth voice chat codec.
Take a look at this snippet:
int N = st->window_size; for (i=0;i<N;i++) st->y[i] = MULT16_16_Q15(st->window[i],st->last_y[i]); //Compute power spectrum of the echo spx_fft(st->fft_table, st->y, st->Y) power_spectrum(st->Y, residual_echo,...
Just because David Tennant does it, doesn't make...
Andreas Englert: So, after noticing the only shoes I had were "fugly"
Andreas Englert: I proceeded to buy some Time Lord shoes.
Ben Englert: you mean converses?
Andreas Englert: Shhhh.
Andreas Englert: Time Lord shoes.
Ben Englert: queer
Andreas Englert: Thank you.
Announcing Kalexo Teamwork 4 →
Ha, ha, ha. (This frame competes directly with one... →
Fucking SQLite
I would at this point be able to post the link to the web application I’ve been working on since Friday.
However, I was lazy and put SQLite behind it instead of proper MySQL or something. Turns out, of course, that SQLite does not like multiple threads trying to talk to it at the same time at all, and I moved some of the heavier crunching my app does on your music library (there’s a...
Have we ever elected a single president?
Or has there always been a first lady?
In SFO
Sister: Why is there no Internet connection here. There's internet connection in Hong Kong airport. And Singapore. And Taiwan.
Dad: Those are first world countries.
... yeah.
NURDRadio Season 4 begins! →
Help me, I think I'm in love. →
The default Django configuration
TIME_ZONE = ‘America/Los_Angeles’ # i.e., Mountain View
Cute.
Watchtopherchris:
Courtesy of The 19 Best Movies That You Didn’t See in 2008 comes my knowledge of a film entitled Young People Fucking.
A smart and fast-paced comedy that intertwines the stories of 5 couples over the course of one sexual encounter. As the couples attempt to have some seemingly straight forward sex, they run into all sorts of problems.
If you haven’t seen this, I strongly...
“It happened so fast, the pilots never had time to throw the aircraft’s...”
– The Associated Press on Thursday’s accident.
I always did have my doubts about whether those things could float, and found the page of the safety information card dedicated to water landings cute but wishful. Clearly they can be made to work.
Ha, ha.
Don’t anyone dare point out what caused the very obvious error in my previous post. I will leave it up for posterity, but…
This is what happens when you code at 4am. Hilarious, when such abominations first appear on the screen, but really also full of fail.
“How about: Make your imaginary drumset slightly less large and obnoxious.”
– Ryan O’Connor after I asked Luke to airdrum a little less vigorously because he was shaking the couch
Andreas Englert: So, due to my experience with these goddamned things...
Andreas Englert: A computer cannot be too large, because large allows for more flex.
Ben Englert: (it can be if it's machined from a solid block of aluminum)
Andreas Englert: Ooooh, you play dirty.
Ben Englert: i do :)
Andreas Englert: I don't know whether to be disgusted or give you a high five.
State Takes Custody of Child Named Adolf Hitler... →
“Sometimes I say Socrates and sometimes I say Plato. The truth is that it...”
– Philosophy professor Susan Setta
This is citizen journalism →
Prof Pucella: ...and, if you do this, your computer will complain - probably something like "you blew your stack."
Hardy: That's what she said.