Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Google Chrome, A Testament to Hubris

Before I begin with my argument, let me say that I generally like Google Chrome (or more correctly, Chromium, the open-source release). It’s the only reasonably responsive open-source (not Opera) browser for tabbed-browsing freaks on Linux, the minimalist UI and … Continue reading

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Der Untergang, Bizarro-style

You may be familiar with the “Hitler rants” meme which produced such parodies as “Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live“.  However, what you probably haven’t noticed is that, thanks to a user named hitlerrantsparodies, a continuity has started to coalesce … Continue reading

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Scribblenauts and /b/-tards

Well, I was wandering around YouTube (no clue why) when I found evidence that the Scribblenauts developers may be /b/-tards. At the very least, they’re pretty good at catching all the noteworthy memes. Here are just some of the noteworthy … Continue reading

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Our Sick Society

A few months ago, my mother sent me an interesting TED talk about motivation. It turns out that the carrot-and/or-stick model for encouraging rewards stifles creativity. We need more businesses like Atlassian and Google which employ “intrinsic motivation” (you do … Continue reading

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SQL Pagination Without OFFSET

Just thought I’d look up how people paginate efficiently in SQLite since, apparently, OFFSET is just an alias for “discard N first results”. The recommended solution is to use a WHERE clause to mimic offset using the same column index … Continue reading

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Functional Programming Concepts for the Lay Programmer – Part 1

Update: Part 2 is finally available. Despite the growing interest in functional programming, most people (myself included) seem to have a lot of trouble grasping the core concepts and constructs. (Probably because the early adopters are all, to some extent, … Continue reading

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My First Impression of Google Wave

Well, I finally got an invite to Google Wave. I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet, but my first impression is that it could potentially be just the thing I need for collaborative story planning… once … Continue reading

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