It takes a while to read, but it’s very much worth it. If you still think you should be writing your own crypto code, or even using native crypto libraries, you are DOING IT WRONG.
P.S. Same goes for parsers! Learn to use ANTLR or any other of the hundreds of parser generators out [...]
I was trying to get eclipse to install an update and it just wouldn’t do it. Specifically the m2eclipse plugin. I kept getting errors about being unable to fix a dependency.
“maven eclipse can not find a solution 3.4.2.M20090204-0800″
Turns out several things help. 1) turn on every site as an available update site, [...]
Anyone can do the lame robocop and a unicorn thing, but unicorns are so 90’s when robocop is clearly a hardocore 80’s icon. Therefore he is better associated with rap music. The video below manages to pack the entire movie into a single 10 minute rap music-video.
Over the past years I’ve driven many, many miles on Los Angeles freeways in conditions of heavy to light traffic. In that time I’ve seen lots of different, interesting, and sometimes even scary things being done on the road. Today was something I’ve never, ever seen before. I got to spend about [...]
Found on the internet as a Best of Craigslist post.
A couple of weeks ago we decided to cruise out to Ryan’s Steakhouse for dinner. It was a Wednesday night which means that macaroni and beef was on the hot bar, indeed the only night of the week that it is served. Wednesday night is [...]
Whether you are in product development or customer service, more or less every single measure of success comes down to how well you have managed expectations. After all, what is a failure other than a customer or consumer considering you to have missed their expectations?
This can cut both ways, however. I recently ordered [...]
I was thrilled to see that in the 200 best/worst jobs list, I have BOTH the 5th best and 5th worst jobs. I am both a software engineer (rank 5) and an EMT (rank 196).
Turns out, it takes some getting used to.
Well, I wonder if being able to blog from a mobile device is a good thing or not…
“Evil is always the assertion of some self-interest without regard to
the whole, whether the whole be conceived as the immediate community or the total community of humanity.” — Reinhold Niebuhr.
