Question... Is there some weird sub-set of the population who for some messed up reason think that putting wet towels on beds will make them get dryer? Or is it just my wife?
50%Many messed up people
50%Just my wife
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Gardening can be much like refactoring. Often you plan to only pull a few of the more obvious weeds out, then end up realising everything is brambles.
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Donald Trump has called Boris Johnson a "friend" who "says very good things about me".
This is what Boris Johnson said about then candidate Trump when he was London Mayor three years ago.
Is there a name for the style of software development where you just keep adding backslashes until it works right? Looking for a clever answer... #lazyweb
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Just so I’m clear, laptop stickers are the tech equivalent of prison tattoos right?
Me: My bike only has one gear.
Hipster: Oh cool is it a fixie?
Me: No, it's a brokie, the gears are fucked.
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Oh, do read this, it's excellent. xitter.cf/whippletom/status/9897…
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My GrandPa telling me about money. I was around 12 or 13 years old.
GrandPa: "Money is like a cat. If you chase the cat,you'll never catch it. If you focus on what attracts the cat, like fish or similar, it will come to you."
Today I realize it was a masterclass in marketing.
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Mike Acton approximator:
1. Can we not do this at all?
2. Can we do this only once?
3. Can we do this fewer times?
4. Can we approximate the results so no one notices?
5. Can we use a small lookup table?
6. Can we use a small FIFO?
6. Can we constrain the problem further?
RECURSE xitter.cf/niinegames/status/9887…
At least once a month I Google "how to remember ln -s argument order" xitter.cf/isotomadoug/status/988…
I've never yet parsed command line arguments without having to look it up.
go-flags? yargs? argparse? getopt?
I can remember none of them, ever. xitter.cf/patio11/status/9885080…















