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Comment on The Happy Toggler by Dave Hergert

Dave Hergert — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:03:30 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. I come from a more Java background, but I like the idea of a declarative way to toggle multiple booleans of an object easily. Although, even at each individual Boolean’s level I think support in the language would neat … like in Java, add a “toggle” method to the Boolean Object, and also add a keyword to be able to call toggle even on primitive booleans (much like how you can call length on a primitive array).

Comment on Stories what I wrote when I was ten by Cory Thompson

Cory Thompson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:21:54 +0000

I’m jealous!

I’m 16 and cannot write this well or this creative

Comment on Not any Helvetica I know by janmejay

janmejay — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:43:07 +0000

Thanks, it was helpful.

Comment on Fluid Rails search by Christopher Owen

Christopher Owen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:17:44 +0000

I’ve been using it for all my Ruby development, but I’m not actively using Ruby at the moment. I’d still be using it for development in Ruby though as having such material conveniently accessible is a must. When I start needing it again, I’d love to write some Apple Script to have searching in Fluid directly from Vim.

I believe the quick search doesn’t work as well in Prism, but I don’t remember too much about it. At the time, Prism in general wasn’t of the same quality as Fluid.

Comment on Fluid Rails search by David Hergert

David Hergert — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:21:50 +0000

I am going to give Fluid a try. In the 4 months since you posted this, are you still using Fluid?

I’d be interested in such functionality, outside of my mac. Does Prism lack the “sexy quick search” because I would think that would be a big deficiency.

Comment on The best of times, the worst of times by Harald Striepe

Harald Striepe — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:37:48 +0000

I am writing this from an oncology ward in Silicon valley dealing with complications from colon cancer treatment.
My son and I were suspected of CMT due to some early signals such as you can whack below our knees as hard as you want without response, but more seriously, my son has walking and running issues. A $5K DNA test turned out negative, and I decided that nerve propagation tests etc. were kind of pointless. Luckily, he grew out of it, but it’s something to keep an eye on.
My chemo includes Oxaliplatin, which causes peripheral neuropathy as one of the many thrilling side effects. I found a Taiwanese peer reviewed double blind study that showed taking high doses of glutamin the day of chemo and following 6 days make a very significant difference of the effect. The dose is 15g twice a day dissolved in water. Since Oxaliplatin also creates extreme temp sensitivity, the water has to be tepid for me – delicious….
Anyway, it appears to make a significant difference. Perhaps it could have a similar impact on your symptoms?

Comment on The online advertising stupidity continues by Simon Rumble

Simon Rumble — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:55:28 +0000

Don’t worry, Fairfax won’t be bothering you much longer. As well as screwing their readers, they screw their customers the advertiser.

Have a look at the source of any Fairfax page and notice the refresh every 3 minutes. That means an “impression” of Fairfax is meaningless, because it could just be that someone opened the SMH home page and went to lunch.

Our impression-to-clickthrough ratios on Fairfax were about what you’d expect, given this. We don’t advertise with them any more, because Fairfax doesn’t deliver customers!

Comment on Strange days by nat

nat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:09:03 +0000

u should be an author. this is fantastic! i felt like i was there watching only i wanted to help you unlike the bastards in your story.
Q) did the pound cake have sultanas in it?
i tell luke my crazy dreams (usually the result of being sick or on meds) he just laughs at me and says i am mental … maybe i should start a blog about them

Comment on Strange days by miss annonomus

miss annonomus — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:51:10 +0000

wow this is amazing christopher. …
is this by any chance christopher swank owen lol

Comment on Strange days by Christopher Owen

Christopher Owen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:58:10 +0000

Just a particularly vivid dream I had. No idea how a pound cake (or more precisely, the impression that I had been carrying one) ended up being in it. I can't tell you whether it was an American or a British one either.