singpolymaposted, “@afrognthevalley Just work for who and for doing what? Plain text/HTML/RTF "just work" for viewing, and can be imported by many editors” @ 2009-054.728Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya Chocolate+Mint rocks! (are we talking about flavours? I wasn’t paying attention)” @ 2009-054.591Z
On 2009-51
singpolymaposted, “Installing a cross-compiler. Going to try to port dash to Windows.” @ 2009-052.778Z
singpolymaposted, “I think my Windows ZSH is converting line endings on file redirection!? So I can’t redirect binary files to STDIN?!” @ 2009-052.759Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya Plugins *are* the best thing about WordPress 🙂” @ 2009-052.241Z
On 2009-50
singpolymaposted, “Geekup at my house tonight. Hooray for last minute planning! Area geeks welcome. It’ll be mostly code geeks.” @ 2009-051.960Z
singpolymaposted, “Lunch 2.0 at Primal Fusion today” @ 2009-051.640Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny never said design/UI is unimportant, only that implementation matters as well, but some people seem to think that pretty crud is ok” @ 2009-050.622Z
singpolymaposted, “The tweetosphere is so much quieter when the Filttr bot dies” @ 2009-050.004Z
singpolymaposted, “Exporting as many tweets as Twitter will let me get at.” @ 2009-049.670Z
singpolymaposted, “My Amazon.com order is here after only 2 days! I accdentally ordered two hardcovers and one softcover from the trilogy I bought though 🙁” @ 2009-049.659Z
singpolymaposted, “@dirk_olbertz I’m not sure I ever logged in with my OpenID before, no… I have a username/passwd account from before OpenID support” @ 2009-049.658Z
singpolymaposted, “@tweetcc: I license my tweets under a Creative Commons Attribution license.” @ 2009-049.646Z
singpolymaposted, “@deepakiyer LyX beats the heck out of Word Processors, anyway. Most word processors make me want to kill myself. I typeset in anything else” @ 2009-049.644Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya one whose head is made of NERF? The context was talking about how many designers suck at implementation and so write crappy sites” @ 2009-049.241Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny it seemed reasonable to publicize at the time. Of course, "designers" are a loosely defined category in the first place.” @ 2009-049.225Z
singpolymaposted, “I just called designers nerfheads. No offense to some of the more right-headed designers I know!” @ 2009-049.169Z
singpolymaposted, “"Learn the facts, and the origins behind the facts, and make up your own damn mind. That’s why you have one." — http://bit.ly/fokiB” @ 2009-049.110Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya not sure why datejs exists, but glad it does 🙂 Is a little bloated, but the parser can’t be beat.” @ 2009-048.596Z
singpolymaposted, “Do the web a favour: if you set a foreground colour, set a background colour.” @ 2009-048.592Z
singpolymaposted, “Full backup complete: 800MB (with duplicates because GMail labels are treated as folders).” @ 2009-048.182Z
On 2009-46
singpolymaposted, “Backing up 400MB of email from my Gmail account…” @ 2009-047.773Z
singpolymaposted, “@igrigorik freedom doesn’t guarentee quality. Although, sometimes it helps 😉” @ 2009-047.710Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya no, I mean they send HTML (not off) email who’s content could be plain text (because messages rarely benefit from formatting).” @ 2009-047.679Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya I wouldn’t exactly call HTML email "advancement". 90%+ of email ends up being plain text in nature anyway.” @ 2009-047.672Z
On 2009-45
singpolymaposted, “Just found out my which is implemented as a shell script… will have to try it on windows” @ 2009-046.097Z
singpolymaposted, “30 minutes and counting! Boy is there a torrent on freenode##1234567890” @ 2009-044.958Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy the argument seems to be "if people can install their own apps they *will* infringe our copyright"… which makes no sense” @ 2009-044.932Z
singpolymaposted, “When I tweeted I was looking for housing in the Bay Area, the one response I didn’t expect was "which bay? SF?" Is there another tech bay?” @ 2009-044.640Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy the comments on that post seem to be ignoring all the free downloads there will be and just bitch about the concept of ever paying.” @ 2009-044.623Z
singpolymaposted, “Starting to look for a place to stay when I move to the bay area come april/may.” @ 2009-043.921Z
singpolymaposted, “@fczuardi Does the interface need to change? Besides some indication that support for others than twitter is possible.” @ 2009-043.824Z
singpolymaposted, “@fczuardi You could support laconi.ca through their microformats, I expect. No need for separate subdomains, let different quotes be mixed!” @ 2009-043.816Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya BTW, (and not on this topic) I keep showing people the rackedhosting.com main page design as examplen of what can be done sans flash” @ 2009-042.616Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya stackoverflow is a good example of a good community though, for both n00bz and not. I answer more than I ask, but I like it a lot.” @ 2009-042.615Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya stackoverflow is a good example of a good community though, for both n00bz and not. I answer more than I ask, but I like it a lot.” @ 2009-042.615Z
singpolymaposted, “RT @aditya Knowing that you don’t know is a very important knowledge. Good first indicator.” @ 2009-042.614Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya right. Inititive is key. Also, context. "How do I?" Is sometimes faster when sitting coding with many geekn. #cluestick” @ 2009-042.611Z
singpolymaposted, “I think the geek comunity self-regulates pretty well. Some are kinder to n00bz than others. No one is kind to n00bz forever. #cluestick” @ 2009-042.609Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya Never judge a coder by initial naivite. Some eventually become good. We were both once naive, the difference is we knew as much” @ 2009-042.607Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya if you start licensing dev’s, who has the authority to license them? Only the community can accept/reject you” @ 2009-042.607Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya So beat them with your cluestick and they’ll either leave or start doing things right. Being helpful is good, RTFM is somethime best” @ 2009-042.606Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya I’m still learning OS mechanics, but glad I didn’t need to know it all first to write portable C. Good geeks teach themselvs/ask q’s” @ 2009-042.603Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya still, having a low entry barrier is good. What’s bad is if you get stuck there, and never move on to more intense geekery.” @ 2009-042.600Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya you mean you don’t consider giant JS block to bend blogger to your will "real webdev"? 😉 I’ll always be grateful for my start there” @ 2009-042.597Z
On 2009-40
singpolymaposted, “@ccarmichael I just don’t get it at all. Does Youtube not accept "religious" video or something? I think not.” @ 2009-041.640Z