I’m listening to two guys in the next cubicle discuss boolean logic in our product. I’m innately interested in this topic, because I wrote the logic engine. The two guys talking are the guy responsible for presenting the choices to the user and generating the appropriate XML, and the guy responsible for taking the XML after it has been transmitted to the remote sites and stuffing the values into the database so that my logic engine can use that information. Two computer scientists, probably with degrees in computer science, discussing something that is at the very core of computer science. And like everybody else in this office except me, they’re getting it wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong. And I’m wondering if I’m going to have to run over there and smack one or both of them until they get it right.
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Category: Geekery
Now this is cool!
Anybody who has looked at a web site or user interface I’ve designed, or indeed at the way I dress, will realize that picking colours isn’t my forte. Normally I rely on finding a site or program whose theme I like and copying it wholesale.
I think I’ve found the answer: ColorMatch Remix. I wonder how it works?
Comment Spammers
Since I cut off comments on old entries (as I discussed in Rants and Revelations: In other news…), the number of comment spams has gone down from one or two a day to only one comment spam in 12 days.
I think I’m going to shove that command into a daily cron job.
Take that, you spamming bastards!
I’m losing it
Are the basic concepts of boolean logic that foreign to people? And I’m not just talking about normal people – I’m talking about computer programmers, managers of computer programmers (former programmers themselves), and quality assurance testers.
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Yet another reason to HATE Time Warner
As if I didn’t have enough reasons already. One of the best things about having a TiVo is that I can record the live Tour de France stages and watch them when I get home, instead of the half-hour summaries that I sometimes got to see back in the years BT (Before TiVo).
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