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George Edison

@YiJiang That's great.

Well, the blog article has to come from the feeds

1:51 AM

Wow. Redesigned AT&T site, yet it still turns $100 into $1.00. =/

Not bad if that's your bill ;)

Well, if it counted for $100, I'd be fine with it. ;)

Heh, they're using jQuery and prototype.

For moar win?

I guess. Clearly they're still using the same backend technology, that makes me a bit sad, but ah well.

They need to minify their HTML too, apparently. :P

There's huuuuuuuge sections of whitespace.

45 blank lines in a row, the hell. :D

1:59 AM

Nice.

It got worse, there was one spot that even with 1080 pixels of vertical space I could not see tags anywhere. And there's randomly tabs on all of the lines for some reason. Good stuff.

Wow. Just. Wow.

Certainly not the worst sin you could commit, but I feel like you have to almost try to make that happen.

It certainly doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Neither does that huge popup that comes up if you accidentally mouse over one of the top links.

Hmm, where's waffles when I want to randomly ask him a question?

2:03 AM

Not around, of course.

I think that's an automatic -1.

Hmm...I'm starting to think that maybe the ntfs file handling isn't as reliable as one would hope. Or that maybe I have something misconfigured.

Hmm?

I have some of my old HDDs in my server. They're basically just data drives. I've been trying to move some stuff around, but I keep ending up with file corruption. Much of it is very slight, several dozen bytes, but it's definitely there.

One thought was that I'm pulling off an NTFS partition onto an ext4 on a new HDD. My initial thought was that the drive was having issues.

However, copying between ext4 partitions on that new drive so far doesn't seem to run into any corruption.

Mind you, I haven't done a very thorough test. I moved a huge chunk of data around on that same drive, but I forgot if I had checked for corruption. I just moved about 3GB and there was no corruption.

I see, interesting

2:12 AM

To make things more interesting, I'm now using rsync to try to copy off that NTFS volume and I'm still getting corruption.

Ridiculously foggy in Nanjing today

Blah. I wish I had noticed that I had picked up lotioned Kleenex, instead of the regular kind. They just don't feel right.

@YiJiang Remember, no high beams. ;)

@GeorgeMarian Aye?

Eh? Car headlights. High beams and fog don't mix.

I'm just trying to be witty. How's it working for yah?

Well, it's not doing wonders for my asthma...

2:21 AM

Yeah, the humidity around here doesn't go well with my mold allergies.

Oh wow, it is really foggy.

@YiJiang Dang, now that's fog you can cut with a knife.

Pea soup anyone?

> One Thatcher ally told the Guardian: "Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."

2:35 AM

LOL

:D

> Apple will not give PC users access to iCloud – its great digital locker in the sky – if their machines are running Microsoft's aging but still popular Windows XP.

How lame.

Peeping Tom Mac spyware suspect cuffed

> These messages included: "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."

WTF? Really?

2:50 AM

Oh man. It's getting worse, eh?

It is, and the air has this horrible burnt smell to it

d'oh

Did something blow up?

No, it's the farmers on the outskirts of the city burning wheat stalks to fertilize the ground. That and the high humidity from the rain this morning

Ah.

They place burn bans in our area sometimes because of the conditions.

I.e no fireplace for you!

Evening.

2:54 AM

hola

Just finished two day holiday. Had just 24 unread emails.yay spam Filters.

What do you do when you've opened an 8 month old project and are less than thrilled with thecode quality?

Michael Mrozek

@Moshe Start over

Wish I had done more commenting. :)

@MichaelMrozek I'm considering it. @GeorgeMarian - that's not the problem. I just learned a lot about the iOS SDK over the past year and I would do a bunch of things differently.

I'm close enough to finishing for a 1.0 release. Is it stupid to finish up then rewrite?

Whatever I decide to do, it's not going to be accomplished in this chat room.

Thanks folks. I'll be back in a bit. Gotta get coding.

3:09 AM

@Moshe No, not at all. In fact you may want to rethink the rewrite. Are there actual problems? Granted, I doubt that this is huge project that carries a lot of risk if you rewrite it.

3:39 AM

I've kind of rewritten the open source project that I work on twice now. I did it incrementally though, by improving chunks of the code at a time, working towards a unified new version.

obligatory pretty-colours representation

My language has grew to be unruly

I just had a line go: value.getValue().getValue().getValue();

(Basically, Variables can pretend to be real values, so getValue() is called to make get the real value... somehow I think I have VariableValues inside of VariableValues...)

The entire project needs a go over

but I'm presenting it tomorrow, then might think about revamping it

or just moving onto another project, like a summer job

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raises brow

I'm pretty sure that's not a valid HTML warning, Eclipse.

@Chacha102 Where are you presenting?

@TimStone The entire project was an APCS final project

3:54 AM

Ah ha

Trufa

@Chacha102 APCS?

AP Computer Science

Right now I'm wishing I had made sure that all classes had UnitTests behind them...

in which case I would be fairly certain that I could type select statements and get correct answers..

Trufa

@Chacha102 cool, thanks!

Especially when something gets as complex as this, being confident in different parts of it is really required

4:29 AM

@GeorgeMarian - valid points. I'll think about them. Thank you.

4:53 AM

Hmm

Benjol

5:05 AM

@jcolebrand I'm guessing from the context that you mean Prezi, it is quite swish. Nice presentation by the way, how'd it go?

'Ello there @Benjol

Benjol

Hi @Tim, just popping in to answer a ancient post.

By the way, anyone here got enough rep to know why Jeff zapped my proposed-faq question? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry....)