January 2010
23 posts
Funny cause it's true (warning: must be a... →
The Onion truthiness. →
thebronzemedal:
mthig:
I don’t enjoy that stuff. I don’t enjoy anything. I don’t even want to be here. The sadness and regret I feel every waking hour of my life is absolutely unbearable. I am a miserable pig and I do not want to exist.
The irony is that, even if I did die, the hell I would surely be sent to could not possibly be any worse than the bottomless pool of excrement...
Fucking Awesome. →
There is no other way to describe this thing. All I know is that if you love computers and you love ROCKING this is a wet dream. I’ve always wanted to ssh into my *guitar*.
Some choice snippets from the FAQ:
7. How do I add [insert xyz here] functionality in to the control program? C++ source code is provided for you to make any changes you like.
Still don’t understand how...
RIP JD Salinger.
joegaudet:
I like many read and loved catcher in the rye, it’s a shame he never wrote much else.
That is all.
+1
Update on "Tumblr sends passwords in the clear."
This is a follow up to my previous post: Tumblr sends passwords in the clear.
First, the official response from Tumblr: A short, polite, but generally uninformative email from Marc at support@tumblr.com. The jist of it was “Yes, we are aware of how we are handling passwords.” and “I’ve passed your suggestion along to our development team.”
So at least they are...
CBC News - Calgary - Nellie's restaurants fined... →
charliegodsoe:
Now’s the best time best time to eat at Nellie’s folks… It’s never been nor will it ever be this clean again.
Who doesn't love ASCII? →
Tumblr sends passwords in the clear.
I just sent this email to support@tumblr.com. I’m hoping by bringing a bit of attention to this fact the issue might get fixed a bit quicker.
Hey there,
First I want to thank you guys for making such an awesome blogging site. First web app I’ve been genuinely excited about discovering in a long time.
Secondly, I wanted to ask you if you are aware that you are sending your...
PEP 8 as a PDF - Python Style Guide with syntax... →
I couldn’t find a nicely formatted version of PEP 8 anywhere online, so I copied the html version into pages and coloured the code. Here it is in case anyone else would like a pdf version of PEP 8!
RE: Did Anyone Solve the MU-Puzzle in Chapter 1?
EDIT 2: Alrighty, so it was quickly shown by both Joe in the comments and Alex over on his blog that my third hypothesis (“I’m missing something.”) was correct. No, I did not prove wikipedia wrong nor did I discover bugs in both Erlang and Ruby. The lesser Paul inside me is tempted to delete this post and my embarassing jumping to conclusions, but I think I’ll let it stand....
2009 - A look back (at Matygo)
I wrote this for the Matygo blog, but it’s probably worth posting here too.
matygo:
Ok, I know I’m about 2 weeks late for the “2009 retrospective” blog posts. I wrote this up around New Years but wanted to work on it some more and have it vetted it by the guys before releasing it on the world. Here you are:
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No Tumblarity? What the hell? I was barely level...
Last night I was just telling my friend Joe, who joined tumblr yesterday, how genius tumblarity is. You want to raise it. Why? Just cause you do. It’s the insta-competitive crack feedback loop rpgs like WoW are based on.
But in this game, instead of getting points for killing mythical beasts you get points for contributing to the online world. Especially if it’s interesting. It...
Kurt Vonnegut's Letter Home after the War →
Sproutcore + Java (App Engine): Concept Proven
I just finished hacking my way through the extensive “Todos” Sproutcore tutorial.
Sproutcore is entirely a client-side technology and is ‘backend-agnostic’ (which sounds kinda like it swings both ways, but I digress), so the only tricky part of the tutorial comes when you want to persist things somewhere on a server. At that point, the tutorial veers off down a couple...
Two Awesome New Web Developer Tools (to me at...
1) Client Side: Chrome.
Lo and behold the Developer tools in Chrome KickAss. Firebug was good, Chrome Dev tools are fantastic. The javascript console even does code complete.
2) Server Side: HTTP Client
Nice, free, graphical tool to inspect HTTP packets. Send posts, gets, heads, etc… to any url and inspect the request and response with nice syntax highlighting. Makes it easy to see what...
Number 1!
Today I officially became Matygo employee numero uno! Thank you random gov’t tax form that motivated the bestowment. I let Joe be number 0 cause he’s closer to the metal than me.
Very Green Art →
Wordnik + Ommwriter = Awesome
Wordnik + Ommwriter. Makes me want to write again, which is pretty freakin awesome.
About Me
An initial import, from the original Paulitex:
My name is Paul Roland Lambert.
After the rock star route didn’t pan out in high school, I moved to Vancouver to be an artsy. That went a little better. After a couple years studying hangover making and phenomenological philosophy, I graduated from UBC in 2006 with a double major in English and Anthropology.
Post-graduation I headed to China,...