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To apply as a ninja, please submit your resume to the HR dept's desk, at midnight. Badge and key will not be provided.
El Golfo! If this is what people mean by golfing, I'm in: http://www.elgolforestaurant.com/ #takomapark
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Acaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaademy! Captain Kirk got cut off.
life small victories-- uncommented a big integration test that I haven't run in a month-- still passes!
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#python For your entertainment, here's my windows batch build script. https://gist.github.com/matthewdeanmartin/e9a6a0f7bf5d5674751c Uses pywin, sphynx, nose, virtualenv & py2exe
Sneak up on dependencies and kill 'em. Be a #ninject ninja in 40 pages. Then add it to your resume. Free minibook: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
HTTP Status Code 426, aka known as Internet Explorer has been detected.
If I upgrade to windows 10, will it reboot and say, "No Operating System Found" like all the other OS changes I've ever done?
@mistersql Other than that, I'm genuinely interested in windows 10. Even considering getting a windows 10 phone.
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robots.txt tells me about endpoints that otherwise would have been hidden- http://www.amtrak.com/robots.txt
Cerealize- to put the cereal in the bowl. Decerealize, to eat it.
Dumb Services – Accessing a website when there isn’t an webservice API: The dumbest API is a C# WebClient that... http://bit.ly/1EILa1n
Watching how to run #Java libraries, code on the .NET CLR with IKVM. I have a hammer, quick I need a nail!
Dumb services. Ordinary HTML forms + curl/WebClient poster + screen scraper. What is the called really?
The ruby installer is asking if I want to install tcl/tk support. Is it safe to leave it unchecked, or must I repave the computer? #tkinter
Doesn't this just illustrate regression to the mean? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-FACEBOOK-GYLAL_ENGAGEMENT_AUD_DEV-0505-0531&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=MAYAUDDEVFB&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0 Rich kids grow up to be poorer, poor kids grow up to be richer.
@mistersql than their parents. Collectively the rich get richer, the poor get poor, which is a different story.
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Commented retweets broke the "disable retweets" feature. This makes my twitter feed unhappy.
If you write code and have to do a time card, go install wakatime and timesnapper. Without them, my timecards would me a mess.
In Soviet Russia, do they say, "The snowclone jokes! they're not working"? I'm asking for a friend.
@mistersql Gold mine, I can machine generate jokes now: http://snowclones.org/index/
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I can run commands as administrator, but I can run "for a friend." I want windows 10 to fix this.
So there was a book called "J2EE without EJB" Is this Java's version of "Javascript the good parts"? ref: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-One---One-Development-without/dp/0764558315/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432916279&sr=1-2-fkmr0&keywords=one+on+one+java+without+javabeans
Will code for the opportunity to look at exceptions and stack traces.
I got Bitbucket's SourceTree to work, sort of. Step 1 is use GitGui for cloning. 2- Point SourceTree at existing working folder.
Ah my old dear friend, "Could not load file or assembly", haven't seen you in a long while. That's right, I was writing python.
Services talking to services talking to services talking to services. I think a proxy is called for here.
Ok, BitBucket's windows client works on 66% of the machines where I install it. On 33%, clone hangs with out message, fails on retry.
Any jr developers/recent grads here who'd like to work on my team? http://formarshgroup.theresumator.com/apply/2C43Dq/Software-Engineer.html We're considering anyone anywhere in their career.
All I want is control-shift-B for dinner. Is that too much to ask? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/piyush/archive/2007/03/16/useful-visual-studio-shortcut-keys.aspx
You can declare your variables in bitbucket scope-privates free, but only 5 devs-or in github scope-publics free, but only five variables
@mistersql If language designers thought about monetizing the compilers.
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#python "This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly." Well, it really means Tcl/tkinter is oblivious to virtual environments
New variant on "person in distress scam" Someone called saying I was the emergency contact for someone who only had my last name.
Developers. Before job hunting, do some blogging. Practice your war stories.
TIL:Microtest is a neologism to replace "unit test" which people still thinks means to let developers test with mice http://anarchycreek.com/2009/05/20/theyre-called-microtests/
@mistersql The mice run across the keyboard and and generally bemused.
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Nonprofit of the week: Ada Initiative. They're doing something about the women in tech issue: https://adainitiative.org/
Aye want two rite a app that rites lake this. Theirs got too bee a mar kit four it.
@mistersql Passes spell check, ship it!
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AVG is telling me that CMake in #Clion is a trojan on install. @jetbrains - do you have a clion specific forum? I looked.
For today's excitement I will be on the interviewing side of technical phone interview(s)
If you act differently on the road people hit you more often- you violate expectations. To be better than human, robot must act differently!
John Nash has reach a new equilibrium. RIP.