November 2010
1 post
one upped
zach: he's tryna be a startup guy
risk: do or do not there is no tryna
zach: finna or no finna, there ain't no tryna
April 2010
2 posts
“Monday morning, my inbox looks like Berlin after May 1st 1999”
– Alec Empire, on Facebook (lol)
couldn't pass this one up
maddox: once real tasks started and playing around with features and apps ended.....holy fuck
maddox: everything clicked
maddox: and every day its more and more
maddox: last night before bed, i spent 2 hours doing some of the most amazing shit on this little tiny thing
rick: twss
March 2010
1 post
fuck yea, ivars
Stay Puft: rick: 'lighthouse.git':..d3730 >> bad ivar
court3nay: well THAT was awesome
Rick: what
Rick: oh the ivar? yea i forgot to add a redirect and cargo culted the line in there
court3nay: no i meant the snorkelling i just did
court3nay: but go nuts on the ivars
February 2010
1 post
hobson: jesus rick
Rick: what
hobson: wwjld
hobson: don't make me post that onion story
Rick: yea
Rick: well jeez
Rick: what would Locke do
Rick: he'd get out one of his big ass knives
Rick: and be like 'hey i have a new programming problem for you, zack'
Rick: 'the island demands it'
hobson: he'd lead you into a conversation about your purpose.
Rick: no rly
Rick: i have a programming problem for you, zack
October 2009
2 posts
easily amused caffeine junkies
rick: fuck i will shut up now
mattly: no
mattly: you got the order of the words wrong
mattly: you will fuck shit up now
rick: will you shit up now, fuck
Jeremy M.: haha
rick: fuck you will, up shit
mattly: hah
mattly: fuck you up, shit will
rick: fuck up, will, you shit
will: a-holes
September 2009
3 posts
mayorship skirmish
kyle: ha, so friday night
kyle: I'm planning on going to get sushi at domo (down the street)
kyle: and I get a email saying Kevin R. stole mayership from me like 5min before I leave
kyle: walk down there, and it's Kevin Rose chillin there
kyle: stole the mayorship from him, and watch him flip out on his phone
“Jonze is the one without a wolf suit.”
– Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Screen
programming is not a science
court3nay: how many people have default searches
rick: i dont know
justin: I'm sure a lot. I do. The standard one isn't that useful once you start moving.
court3nay: is there a way of telling?
rick: there's no way of knowing. programming is not a science
August 2009
1 post
#github
defunkt: nginx got in a weird place
defunkt: there was no master, only workers
evan: oh no!
evan: socialism!
July 2009
2 posts
“And so the “secret unlock code” during the height of the nuclear crises of the...”
– How likely is a failure of nuclear deterrence?
“Neda became the voice of a movement; Twitter became the megaphone.”
– A Nobel Peace Prize for Twitter?
June 2009
4 posts
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”
– Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
“We laughed triumphantly, adrenaline racing, feeling like the Jack Bauer trio....”
– Find My iPhone works, and it is awesome.
“Let’s make a rule: There will be no assholes.”
– Tesla Motors Founder: Let Me Run Detroit (wired)
May 2009
2 posts
“Hours later, Rod Harrington rode past the Starbucks on a bicycle, paused to look...”
– Explosion Rocks a Starbucks on the Upper East Side
“Every other conference has people arguing about which test or spec framework is...”
– Giles’ response to Robert Martin’s Railsconf keynote.
April 2009
4 posts
“You’ve invented the compass. Are you taking the credit?”
– Time Travel Essentials
“Twitter is electric/computerized and available at all times, except when sexual...”
– McSweeney
“Human beings are hardwired to see patterns. Seeing links and connections between...”
– Cracked
“My quest in life now is to surround myself with smart, innovative people,...”
– Trent Reznor
March 2009
4 posts
“I go to the bathroom, and I try to poop, and I come up with a good idea.”
– No More Heroes Dev Explains the Importance of Bathroom Brainstorming
“Today, he’d be stuck working at Google making adwords.”
– Rails is a Ghetto
fonzi's law
dave winer: There ought to be something like Godwin's Law for this -- at some point some jerk will show up and say "This is just like high school."
fpayntor: We could call it Fonzi's Law.
source: http://tr.im/breakoutoftwitter comments
February 2009
6 posts
“…that’s a great idea, but a lot of people are going to have to die...”
– Andy Ihnatko — Comics Sleeping Giant? Apple, e-Books, and the Future
awesome branch names
** [65.74.175.132 : : out] * [new branch] backdoor_betty_bam_bam_bam
** [65.74.175.132 : : out] e62eece..9e12496 credit_card -> origin/credit_card
** [65.74.175.132 : : out] ae52567..530e2aa master -> origin/master
** [65.74.175.132 : : out] * [new branch] ronin_commit_seppuku
“i can watch fred durst talk to demi moore about something ashton said to fucking...”
– jeremy, in the entp campfire
“You drew a penis on my credit card machine.”
– When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires
January 2009
7 posts
“A lot of people use Twitter to complain or vent, but I generally try to avoid...”
– How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person
“Welcome to distributed version control.”
– chris wanstrath
“Some also say we invented December. Thats not true either.”
– iSteam dominates, hits 1 million downloads in its first week
“Which is not to say that my code is right, but only to say that it does what I...”
– mark
figuring out where to eat
towski: rick just acquiesced to rogue
justin: gah, ok. Rogue it is.
justin: towski: text me when you guys get near 10th
towski: k. justin we're going to stare at the internet for 10 maybe 15 minutes
towski: then I'll say to rick: "you ready to go"
towski: and he'll say, just a second
December 2008
9 posts
Police Officer: so, you were mugged.
Mattly: Yeah, he handed me a cat and then reached into my pocket and took my wallet, my keys, *everything*.
Police Officer: did you struggle?
Mattly: didn't you hear me? HE HANDED ME A CAT.
“How is it that I always learn more and more about monkeys every time I click on...”
– reddit comments regarding Jamis’ Microsoft isn’t my gorilla, and it isn’t in my room post.
November 2008
4 posts
twitter conversation
@technoweenie: holy crap, sequel has some crazy filtering: items.filter(:price / 100 >= 200).sql
@jmhodges: Boo, that doesn't work in merb because merb overloads / on symbols sometime after sequel is loaded.
@technoweenie: perhaps you should consider using 2 simple frameworks that dont rely on magic and rewriting of core ruby methods... ZING! :)