April 01, 2004
good advice

I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out. -- Judge Harold T. Stone

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February 24, 2004
rules

10. Code is _always_ Beta. It's never done until it's no longer in use or support no longer exists.
9. The better the SDK, the more sophisticated the bugs.
8. There's always more bugs in the other guy's (girl's) code.
7. Declaring code bug-free is asking for it to fail at the worst possible time with the greatest visibility.
6. A good design is as likely to have bugs as a bad one. Bugs are equal opportunity.
5. Debugging time is inversely proportional to coding time.
4. If it works the first time, there's a bug, but you won't find it until you roll it out.
3. Debugging is fun. Really! It's when you run out of bugs that you should wonder if you got them all, that's not fun.
2. The most difficult bugs to find are in the most straightforward looking code.
1. That's not a bug, that's a feature.

--posted by ackthpt on slashdot

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January 21, 2004
bah, coding standards Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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January 08, 2004
my life

just an idiot looking for a village...

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January 06, 2004
love that latin

Veni, vidi, velcro.
"I came, I saw, I stuck around."

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December 30, 2003
Strength

My strength is as the strength of ten men, for I am wired to the eyeballs on espresso

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April 10, 2003
Handling Spam

"I have some email addresses that are getting hit with spam and I'd like to dead-end them."

Why not download this amazing program to do the bouncing for you?

What this program does is download the headers (not the entire email, which can save you bandwith in the long run) to email files and then classifies them as spam or what not.

From there you can select to delete the email, bounce it back, blacklist it,
or keep it. After processing it, it then opens up your email program and
downloads the good mail.

I use this program to bounce back spam anytime I get it. How effective is
it? Depends on how good you think 1 spam email / month is :)

ted

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ok, so i tried mailwasher...and i'm pretty disappointed with it. the first time i ran it, life was good. the next 3 or 4 times i ran it, it hung part way through. i'm still searching for a spam solution.

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April 04, 2003
Career

I thought I wanted a career - turns out I just wanted paycheques.

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Comparing Languages

<tip type="Programming" author="Joshua Olson">
What a neat idea: http://merd.net/pixel/language-study/syntax-across-languages/
</tip>

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April 02, 2003
Accessibility

<tip type="accessibility">
Cynthia is a web content accessibility validation solution designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines
http://www.contentquality.com/Default.asp
</tip>

rudy

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