January 2009
1 post
Do you follow me?
Sometimes it’s nice to see which of your twitter friends are actually following you back. I like DoesFollow from @damon but I don’t want to go to another web page; I’d rather just click one button on a user’s feed and get the information immediately. I wrote a bookmarklet that does this for me.
Here’s the source:
myName = 'abhaykumar';
thisPage =...
August 2008
1 post
July 2008
2 posts
Clever but slow: Symbol#to_proc
Ever do something like this in a Rails app and think it was really awesome and convenient?
all_content = Post.find(:all).map(&:content)
Symbol#to_proc is really neat but is expensive as heck.
Here’s some sample benchmarks:
user system total real
without to_proc 0.840000 0.000000 0.840000 ( 0.858780)
with to_proc 1.780000 0.020000...
Design By Humans 20% Off Referral Code + Contest
I got this in my email today so I thought, why not? Use this 20% off referral code and I’ll have a chance to win an iPhone I’ve been coveting for about as long as everyone with one has been mocking me for not having it. The first place winner also wins a MBP but I highly doubt I’ll get that far. I’m fine with Top 5.
Design By Humans 20% Off Referral Code: abhay (Expires...
June 2008
9 posts
WatchThe Tesla doing a lap at Le Mans.
Firefox 3 Download MIrrors
I haven’t been able to download the new Firefox 3 package all morning so I went hunting for mirrors.
Here’s a direct link for those on Mac and wanting the en-US release: dmg, checksum
There’s a full mirror list where you can get more download links while the mozilla.org site stays up. You can find your platform and language via that list. More examples: linux-i686, win32
Fedora mirrors being wonky
This post is mostly so I remember this myself but when I logged into my VPS this evening and tried to use yum, I got the following silliness
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)...
WatchReally neat video showing a synopsis of the American Civil War. I think the coolest part is Sherman’s March to the Sea.
May 2008
24 posts
I think my equivalent would be some sort of...
hugehuge:
Recumbent 3 a.m. conversation a few days ago:
She [sincerely and without warning]: I’m attracted to everything about you. Even the Darth Vader sword hanging on your wall.
Me [thinking]: Oh my god, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has said to me in a very long time.
Me [out loud]: Correction: it’s a lightsaber.
I walked right into one of the best "that's what...
Me: It's pretty cool that 7 of my 397 facebook friends were born on 5/25. That's about 6.5 times the expected birthday collision.
Cliff: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD980.html and http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/
Me: two is easy... but seven? that makes it interesting.
Cliff: and that's what she said.
The Telectroscope, a really neat art installation by Paul St. George that is operational from today through June 15. Here’s the gimmick from the website:
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a...
Powerset hooks people up at launch parties. →
Apparently we hooked people up at our launch party [craigslist]
A little downtime
Some of the services I run, including the calais text tagger, will be down for a little while as I’m doing some server maintenance. I apologize for any inconvenience.
End of the 'Stache
As much as I was initially hesitant, I truly enjoyed the last 4 months wearing a mustache as a covenant signifying my support of a great undertaking: taking a closed beta product and turning it into something available to the world. Earlier this evening, I had my mustache shaved by Ritch at Barber Lounge. Although I really do appreciate being able to see my upper lip again, I do miss my mustache,...
QR Code
QR code for opensynapse.net. You can also make one for your url, phone number, sms, or just some text at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/.
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It’s a great day.
Great BBC Article Title: "Great tits cope well... →
[via @tpbrown]
Mission Hipsters > Williamsburg Hipsters →
What’s funny is that as much as I hate hipsters in general, I realize that I hate Brooklyn hipsters more than I hate ones here in SF. If they’d stop wearing ridiculously tight/short black jeans with Converses and stop calling everything ironic, I might actually tolerate them.
I need help choosing a new laptop bag
So I’m in the market for a new laptop bag for my 15” MBPs. I really like my Timbuk2 Laptop Messenger but I want a change.
Here are my choices:
Spire Dart
STM Loft
Booq Mamba Sling
Booq Boa Slimcase M90
Booq Boa Slimcase M
Let’s forget about price for a second because they’re all pretty much within the range I’m willing to spend. Anyone have thoughts? Send me...
Knife Registration in China →
If I was living in China, I’d have to register my new kitchen knives.
April 2008
6 posts
Wiffiti
I completely forgot about Wiffiti. I got back it to it today. Let’s see if this works:
Facebook Lexicon
I found an interesting visualization on Facebook a few minutes ago. If you’re on fb, check it out
From their Help Page
What is Lexicon?
Lexicon is a tool to follow language trends across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls. For example, you can enter “love, hate” (without quotations) to compare the...
March 2008
4 posts
Eubonicode →
Ebonics in code
sup
{
a be 1 bitch
slongas(a fearin 100)
b be 2 bitch
c be 0 bitch
slongas(b fearin a)
if (a videdby b time b sameas a)
propsta c bitch
fi
propsta b bitch
nomo
if (c sameas 0)
putou a bitch
fi
propsta a bitch
nomo
}
(via cliff)
WatchGhost Ride the Delorean (via yesbutnobutyes)
February 2008
56 posts
