February 2012
13 posts
Leave it to Spotify to play Yankee Doodle after Daddy Yankee.
“The above example, and as we will argue the observer
pattern as defined in [25]...”
– The very best kind of academic burn.
“Deprecating the Observer Pattern” — Maier, et.al.
codingjester:
It sounds weird, but blasting Rage Against the Machine to an empty Tumblr office is pretty awesome…..
Making the Mayor’s Office feel welcome, are we?
My first time breaking Tumblr.
Happy Valentine’s. :-(
xoxo
“@Fake_Rockstar: Owning a car in NYC is the same as owning a corpse - You have to...”
Background: (thumb drumming to some song)
Peter: you some —— drummer?
Wiktor: it happens, I thought you designer dudes are all about spontaneity
Peter: no, we're all about predictability
Peter: like an engineer doing his —— job and not auditioning for KISS
In other news, Bennett is stuck in the elevator at...
January 2012
16 posts
An inconvenience: I dropped my phone down the...
Scala implicits for great reward
A somewhat common case when making a DSL: you want a statically typed value that’s registered with its name on instantiation. (as, say, a configuration control)
Here’s one way to do that in Scala:
import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer
var nameRegister = ListBuffer[String]()
case class Var[T](val unboxed: T) {
def varName = getClass.getSimpleName.split('$').last
...
A Tour of Tumblr's NYC Office — Business Insider →
My first month at Tumblr: sexy multi-threaded stuff in a few lines of Scala.
My second month at Tumblr: single-threaded event manager stuff in a thousand lines of C.
(not a complaint)
/r/shittyaskscience/ — oh my. →
This idiot boy just ordered -two- queen sized beds. And they’ve already shipped.
UGH.
It looks like a bunch of trolls went and vomited on Times Square. The filth is quite extraordinary.
The problem with sophisticated friends is you can’t just show up with Yellowtail or Charles Shaw.
December 2011
60 posts
“Today is about productivity: you’re listening to voicemails, you’re shaving...”
– Week In Review: The 9-To-5 Employee
Dallas will kill me, but nothing beats a nice iced coffee with blueberry syrup from Dunkin Donuts. It’s an acquired taste, believe me.
