As an idler in #debian-kde for nearly ten years, I have to say, as the channel is now +m, fuck you very much MoDax.
[14:59] [Kick] You have been kicked from channel #debian-kde by MoDaX
(This channel is closed. Please join us in #debian-kde on OFTC: irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-kde).
The Case for Working With Your Hands:
If the goal is to earn a living, then, maybe it isn’t really true that 18-year-olds need to be imparted with a sense of panic about getting into college (though they certainly need to learn).
Mandating a degree is the refuge of a lazy HR lacky.
Interestingly, software development and systems [...]
Some excellent, must read articles today about credit, credit cards, and the place of financial services in the (British) economy.
Steve Randy Waldman on the critical difference between transactional and revolving credit:
We won’t get very far in the debate about credit in the US economy if we fail to distinguish between transactional and revolving credit. These [...]
ExtJS 3.0 RC1.1 includes some interesting improvements under the hood. First, Ext.Button is now a Component, so the ownerCt property works as you’d expect.
More interestingly, there is now a ref property for Component which is initialized during the render portion of the Component lifecycle. It allows you to inject a back reference into [...]
If you’re tired of having your hard earned dollars looted, please read Alan Grayson’s letter to members of Congress to support H.R. 1207 and then sign the petiton at FireDogLake. Also read Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism on this.
It’s time we learned where our money is going. All U.S. citizens are ultimately accountable [...]
It’s hacks like these that grow my appreciation of Ruby.
array = []
array.extend(Module.new{
def append(value)
value.is_a?(Array) ? replace(self|value) : replace(self|self<<value)
end
})
In a plugin that mixes in functionality to many of my Rails models, I have a model array that I stick method names into. Some of the methods are preconfigured in the mixin itself. The rest are [...]
I cannot express the rage I feel at the discontinuation of Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. I still fondly remember its introducion. I stumbled upon it in Virginia while at a SANS conference there. I had to wait six months for its introduction into Florida. My opinion of it was not unlike [...]
Edward Harrison has a great article on GDP calculation on nakedcapitalism:
Recovery does not mean recovery
My final thought on the statistics here has to do with starting from a lower base. Before the Great Depression in 1929, the U.S. had nominal GDP of $103.6 billion. By 1933, this had dropped to $56.4 billion due to deflation [...]
Once in a while, you pull of something quite spectacular. Loading Acrobat Reader inside an Ext.Window is such a feat. It’s the cleanest solution I could come up with that enables a single Rails action to handle the entire PDF creation process without a redirect, keeping a session, or using a GET request. [...]
Nicholas C. Zakas presents, among other things, an interesting way of scheduling work to be done in batches, so the browser doesn’t become unresponsive for the user.
There’s an ExtJS version by Doug Hendricks from the forums, too, although it’s actually framework agnostic.