The Petition to End All Petitions
PetitionOnline is another one of those lazy options: "How can I convince myself I'm accomplishing something worthwhile, without more than two minutes effort?" →
May 2004
Monday Morning
There's a call on line two for Charles from a Mr Deja Vu. He says you left your brain at home, and would you like to pick it up? →
On Display...
Yes. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.' →
On Comments
In any community with a moderation policy, the first (and constantly repeating thereafter) complaint is hypocrisy: that comment was just as “against the rules’ as mine, why wasn't that deleted? To which the one and only response is: 'because I felt one was worthy of remaining, and the other was not.'; →
Lazy and Stupid
Let's just forward stupid emails instead. That'll make us feel better. Yeah. →
Type Inference and Java
A stupid type system is one where the programmer is forced to do unnecessary work for the compiler. Java's implementation of static typing is stupid. →
Personality Test
Unfortunately, this is a visual gag, and explaining the joke in alt text wouldn't be particularly funny. →
The Joy of Comment Spam
I shudder at the time I have to invest in this. I don't like fiddling around with installation and configuration, and yet I'm going to have to spend however long it takes to fix all this up. Joy. →
Heard on the Radio
Straight Eye for the Straight Guy →
The Two Uses of Mock Objects
Two uses for mock objects, two families of priming methods. I'm not sure I need to draw this any clearer. →
26 lines from 20 songs
Shiva opens her arms now to make sure I don't get too far. And in the middle of negotiations, you break down. →
The "Java Beats Objective-C" Meme
None of this, of course, means anything. These micro-benchmarks are so ridiculously contrived that they only serve to throw around confusion and pretty mindless advocacy. →
Profiling is Important
Keep in mind this thing was profiling C code. Java runs in this carefully managed environment, surely we should have better tools? I suspect that if the Java vendors don't wake up, this is somewhere .NET can really clean up by making similar tools just come with the environment. →
Google IPO Humour
Nice to see Google isn't losing its personality, even in the face of gigantic sums of money. →