February 2012
2 posts
Regenerate UUIDs in an input file
I work with InstallShield a lot, as my employer has dozens of installers that need to be maintained. I also often need to base a new installer on an existing one. The simplest way to do this is to simply copy the old InstallShield project and change project-specific settings. Unfortunately, this necessitates changing a bunch of GUIDs in the project file so that they don’t clash with the...
Time to restart my iPad (absolutely not...
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January 2012
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October 2011
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September 2011
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February 2011
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I hope the "staff function" is training.
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December 2010
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I can't say that I expected better from iPhone...
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March 2010
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Pardon me?
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February 2010
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Apparently I woke up in 1965 ...
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Grocery store arithmetic
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Richard Feynman: Inconceivable nature of nature
After watching the videos over at http://symphonyofscience.com, I wanted to see the original sources as well. Here’s (one of) Feynman’s contribution(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU8PId_6xec Posted via email from Chris’s posterous | Comment »
January 2010
1 post
I'm not as bad a programmer as I think! →
Nothing like watching the in-progress debugging sessions of others to reassure myself.
On a related note: holy shit, codepad is cool.
October 2009
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September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
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July 2009
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June 2009
2 posts
“Atheists represent the last social or religious group where stigmatization is...”
– Is there a place for atheists in America? : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad’s most trusted source for local news and analysis
jlongster - Writing apps for the iPhone in Scheme →
April 2009
2 posts
March 2009
5 posts
“Sometimes, when people say this:
The source code is freely available. If...”
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Irritating Design Decisions #1
The Product: Motorola Razr2
The Problem: Plugging it into my laptop causes it to automatically change its ringer profile to “Loud”. Huh? I just plugged in the phone to my computer, so chances are that 1) I’m indoors; and 2) I’m physically close to the phone. Even if a compelling argument can be made that my first point is not necessarily true, then why change the volume...
Simple rate-limiting algorithm?
marco:
…. [b]ut I can’t figure out a way to do a rolling 60-second period without storing every hit and its timestamp within the rolling window. Is there a good algorithm for doing that in constant space and time (maybe a trick using averages?), or am I pretty much stuck with the fixed calendar-window method?
I’m thinking that you can get a pretty good rolling window implementation...
"Nearly half the size" does not mean what you...
Apple on Wednesday introduced the next generation iPod shuffle. The shuffle has always been Apple’s smallest iPod, but now it is nearly half the size of the previous model.
Standard disclaimers apply. Yes, it’s a nice-looking gadget; yes, I would like to have one. But “nearly half” means “almost half”, which means “less than half”, which does not mean...
February 2009
5 posts
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The No Pain Challenge →
Every time I find a page like this one, it helps to restore my faith, just a little bit, in humanity.
Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework... →
Yes, it’s on MSDN, and it’s C#-specific. Get past that and work through it in your language of choice.
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