My various email inboxes are piling up, and I’ve now neglected to return at least two calls this weekend. (Sorry, Justin. Sorry, Steve.) I’m likely to stay off radar for the next month.
Seems I underestimated the extent to which JSP could suck, so I’ll be spending [more of] my evenings writing a [...]
I have decided that my programming language preference (without taking application-specific constraints into consideration) is as follows (I’ve interspersed activities to provide some frame of reference):
Ruby
[a nice cup of tea]
Python
[riding the bus]
Smalltalk
PHP
VB6/VB5/VBA
[running a mile]
Java
Perl
[migraine]
C++
[oral surgery]
Prolog
Why, you might ask, is Perl below Java on this list, despite the fact that it can do just about all [...]
…right back where I started from? Um, not exactly.
So as of now, my DARS (Degree Auditing Report System) report shows that I’ve met all requirements for my BS in computer science. w00t! Now all I have to do is pass the last three-credit course I’m taking and I’m good to go. [...]
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I just spent an hour trying to add some fields to the TPS report. (Okay, technically it was the “PPT Report Card,” but still.)
My guess is that this will take my supervisor another two hours of hacking, while I watch over his shoulder and try to keep up.
My life is now complete.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
I took this photo at the British Museum, I think. Near as I can tell, it’s meant to warn users of the public toilet about the horizontal cutting laser three feet off the ground.
[EDIT: Eva wins with the comment "Jedi Alert!" I'm not sure what she wins, exactly, but making me LOL [...]
The internets, they were out of order.
“You’re doing fantastically well. I wouldn’t expect you to have done any better even if you knew Perl and knew the editor.”
-The programmer I’ve been pairing with for the last two days. (The editor in question is vim. There seems to be about a 50/50 split between vim and emacs, with one [...]
…of learning Perl, and all I can say is that the suckitude of Perl currently appears to be on the order of the suckitude of Java.
Nearly 37 hours ago, I woke up in a hostel bed in Dublin. I’ve just arrived home about 20-30 minutes ago. Much too much of the intervening time was spent at the festering cesspool that is JFK International Airport; I’ll see if I get around to posting a play-by-play in the next few [...]
Currently at a little Internet shop in the Temple Bar area of Dublin. I believe the word for this little area is “vibrant.” I’ve smelled all kinds of alcohol on people’s breaths, dragged my luggage across all variety of cobblestones, and eaten a French-style crepe for dinner… and I can still hear the [...]
Just a quick note in case anyone happened to see news from the UK yesterday: we were on a small tour bus going through the western Highlands, taking silly pictures at Castle Doune (which served as about half of the castles in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”). On the way back, I [...]