# Assorted functions for various things
Thank you, developers of yore. You’ve made things oh so much clearer to this lowly maintenance programmer.
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Category Archives: wtf
Python Comment of the Week (Aug 12 2007)
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Error Handling & Pay Phones
Saturday, March 3, 2007
It’s not enough to handle all error cases; you have to respond to them properly as well.
While waiting in the Ottawa International Airport, I placed a call to my sister from a pay phone. The number is local, so I entered the seven digits. The phone’s response was to play a recording for me: “To [...]
Shredded Wheat
Monday, February 12, 2007
If the serving size of shredded wheat is two biscuits, why are they packaged in threes?
Mercurial Head Scratcher
Friday, February 9, 2007
I’m trying to generate a patch to send to a project that uses Mercurial for their scm. In the middle of some commits, I did an ‘hg pull’ and ‘hg merge’. Since I did not have ‘git rebase‘ available, I now have the merged code right in the middle of my commits. If all of [...]
Seperated at birth?
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Linspire announced Click N’ Run support for distributions beyond their own the other day. What I find interesting is the logo for Freespire shown on the cnr page, conveniently adjacent to the Fedora logo:
Obviously, the logos are on the wrong sides of each other. Freespire should be the left, or sinister twin.