Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Leah Neukirchen

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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13feb2006

Churches celebrate Darwin’s birthday, “Nearly 450 Christian churches in the United States are celebrating the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin Sunday.” I, Leah Neukirchen, celebrate too. ;-)

The ‘Self’-Shunt Unit Testing Pattern (PDF), by Michael Feathers. Nice one.

P1010700.JPG by adamkovics

Basic tutorial for women to pee standing at All About My Vagina. PNSFW.

What do you write in that journal
Some kind of infernal poetry
So that I’ll offer my help
But don’t you worry, don’t you worry
— The Donnas, Have You No Pride

Need a girlfriend?, go ahead, pick out an Imaginary Girlfriend today. We won’t tell anyone that it’s not real!

Ropes are a scalable string implementation: they are designed for efficient operation that involve the string as a whole. Came up with that on my own tonight.

#ruby-lang

21:10 <slyphon> i think my upstairs neighbor is listening to "Minuet for 4 Vacuum Cleaners in Fuck-all Major"

Wie geprügelte Hunde, Sie wurden geschlagen, erniedrigt und eingesperrt. Unter oft unvorstellbaren Bedingungen wuchsen in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahre Hunderttausende Kinder und Jugendliche in kirchlichen Heimen auf. “Wir waren Zwangsarbeiter”, sagen sie heute.

#ruby-lang

20:34 <pabs> evan: just remember that there's no i in teamwork

20:34 <evan> dbrock: we're both right and both wrong.

20:35 <oGMo> pabs: unless it's an apple product

The Song Tapper, this site lets you search for a song, by tapping the rhythm of its words (lyrics). Doesn’t work for me, but maybe I just can’t tap.

trapexit.org, Your Last Stop for Erlang Information.

Interval Computations on LtU. I don’t see why a good, inlined, library wouldn’t just do it?

Free Kurt Cagle, (and save me from his wrath while you’re at it)! *grin*

#ruby-lang19:23 <dbrock>  Ruby is for everyone except hardcore Lisp weenies
23 <dbrock>  CL wizards and Schemers
23 <slyphon> dbrock: yeah, and that's just because they don't like anything "too unixy"
23 <chris2>  dbrock: matz just told ruby was a desexprified lisp :)
24 <UncleD>  ruby users are too busy having sex to leard hard syntax!
24 <chris2>  %-)

cl-openpoker, I’m really excited how it will scale.

Continuation kata, can you write AMB from the top of your mind?

While The Light’s Still Green, by Geoff Manaugh. About global warming, but also features art by Hieronymus Bosch.

reflections by Toupelitou

#ruby-lang18:47 <slyphon> shit
48 <slyphon> why can't i trap a signal inside sleep()
49 <slyphon> so what should i do? Thread.pass ?
49 <chris2>  i know how to do it
49 <slyphon> chris2: are you gonna share this bit of wisdom?
50 <chris2>  t = Time.now; x = 0; while Time.now - t < 4; x += 1; end  and then later,  y = x; while y > 0; y -= 1; end
50 <chris2>  *scnr*
50 *   slyphon stabs chris2
50 <dbrock>  haha
50 *   slyphon slaps chris2 with a large trout

How “Christ, What an Asshole!” is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest, by Charles Lavoie.

I remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you’d just woke up
— Bright Eyes, First Day Of My Life

Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0, Matthew Broersma interviewed DHH.

Top 10 List: Ways to Simplify Programming, by Mike Elola. Has a strong Forth focus, but the concepts as usually apply in general.

An Assembly Programer’s Approach to Object-oriented Forth, by András Zsótér.