April 2007
24 posts
helge: setting up the link between textmate and my blog, and not quite deciding whether to use markdown or textile for formatting (via Twitter / helge)
moleskine city notebooks are sweet
By HelgeG
21 minutes ago.
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helge: pondering the fact that a lamy pen with a medium nib creates lines that are too heavy for my liking. time to try fine or extra fine nibs. (via Twitter / helge)
helge: teaching norwegian (via Twitter / helge)
helge: two bugs down, two to go (at a rate of 1.5 mugs of coffee per bug) (via Twitter / helge)
new week, new bugs, more coffee
By HelgeG
26 minutes ago.
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helge: my tumblr-blog is now alive and kicking at http://www.bachisdead.com (via Twitter / helge)
“I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics.”
– Richard P. Feynman
www.bachisdead.com →
this blog now has a new URL
helge: Preparing to register a couple of domains for my new projects and my tumblr-blog (via Twitter / helge)
“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as...”
– Richard P. Feynman
http://www.eff.org →
doing heavy refactoring on my code. good thing a test harness is in place.
By HelgeG
4 minutes ago in Portugal.
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helge: getting the coffee ready (via Twitter / helge)
caffeine and music
it’s hard to imagine what working life would be like without coffee and my ipod.
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and...”
– Richard P. Feynman
program to an interface
today i had to change the implementation of a crucial system feature. i am glad i did design up front, as i only needed to change implementation details. the other system parts dealing with my code still worked as before, as the interface visible to the outside world remained unchanged. loose coupling is a good thing.
rachael: do you like our owl?
deckard: is it artificial?
rachael: of course it is.
deckard: must be expensive.
rachael: very. it seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
deckard: replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. if they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
tired
running towards a new release is alway tiring, and the testers seem to enjoy finding tricky bugs in the last minutes. i am in for a long night, and an early morning. for better or for worse, come tomorrow afternoon, the product goes out the door.
“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of...”
– Richard P. Feynman, from an appearance on the BBC programme Horizon, 1981
good day
today I had en efficient day at work. although only two reported bugs were sorted, they were complex, with many “sub-bugs”, so I am happy. tomorrow is another day, now I only have two bugs left to resolve before my slate is clean and I am ready to commence work on the next version of the software.
debugging
twice today I have discovered cases where code indentation did not agree with code logic, obscuring logic bugs. don’t trust the indentation of code. prettyprint it, and you might discover something. function relative_time(time_value) { var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value); var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date(); var delta =...
“We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that...”
– Richard P. Feynman, The character of physical law