Andrew's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Shorten Your Own Damn URLs

Archanth — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:50:59 -0000

this seem as such a difficult but very much useful for all url creators .

Re: College Football: Go Gamecocks? or Watching and Ranking

Andrew — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:29:06 -0000

Agreed. The numbers do not lie.

Re: College Football: Go Gamecocks? or Watching and Ranking

ComputerSnacks — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:24:32 -0000

Georgia Tech in the top 10? I can dig it!

Re: Suit Project: Let's All Wear Suspenders!

Edward — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:38:58 -0000

I have enjoyed the feel and comfort of suspenders for most of my life. As a young boy my parents made me wear suspenders . As I grew older I continued to were them on my snowpants and heavy hunting pants. In my late teens I started to ride motorcycles, again I wore suspenders on my heavy leather overpants as well as the on my jeans under the leather pants. I no longer ride but I still wear suspenders nearly everyday, suspenders are much more confortable than any belt.

Re: Suit Project: Tie Clips, How Do They Work?

Shawna — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:39:06 -0000

As I said earlier, Laura and I talked about how the internet makes it easier to unearth some of the fussy yet fun stuff that disappeared in the 70s as women entered the workplace & Americans started to wear tracksuits everywhere. Thanks to the internet, I was able to buy the "appropriate" diameter pearls for a woman of my age and status.

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

Andrew — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:51:48 -0000

I have two suits: a grey one and a blue one. I plan on rotating them (so blue suit today) and switching out tie/shirt combos to keep things fresh. Also, I will probably rotate in some blazer / trouser combos.

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

Andrew — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:51:03 -0000

People who wear sneakers w/ suits are embarrassing. It's like, "why even try?"

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

Adam Hathcock — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:05:08 -0000

The shoes are important. Just don't wear any pair that look too comfortable like black sneakers. I think it makes everything else just look dressed down.

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

Matt Weiss — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:44:18 -0000

I wore a suit to my first classes today too! I'm not sure if I'm going to wear one every day, but I did get into the habit of wearing a tie every day last semester, and the daily suit seems like the logical next step. When I wore a tie, I did notice a slight change in both how I felt and how my students reacted to me, but I'm hesitant to ascribe any strong significance to that change from one-semesters-worth of anecdotal evidence. If you're teaching three times a week, what is your suit rotation going to look like? Will you have a "Monday suit"? I'm looking forward to hearing more...

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

michaelfaris — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:20:34 -0000

very cool idea, Andrew! I'm interested to hear the "results"

Re: Suit Project: What I'm Doing

Chris Woodward — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:43:03 -0000

This is a good idea. I've always kind of wished we lived in a world where the suit was the standard clothing for men in most situations.

Also: Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids and writer/creator of Freaks and Geeks agrees with you:
http://putthison.com/post/1003...

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

Boweninternational — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:30:52 -0000

This doesn't work with Firefox 5 unfortunately

Re: How I'm Writing My Dissertation

Dissertation Writing — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:22:09 -0000

Wow !!!
this article is very informative and read full.
thanks for sharing us,,,,

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

sij — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:50:50 -0000

Thank you, thank you. I was so irritate by the repeated requests to log into Facebook, that I had stopped using Firefox. Safari doesn't prompt me like that...perhaps its doing more than I want it to do...will have to check that out.

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

Aa — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:16:55 -0000

||connect.facebook.net^
||*connect.facebook.com^
|http://www.facebook.com/plugin...

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:01:00 -0000

facebook has too much power

Re: Shorten Your Own Damn URLs

Andrew — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:30:04 -0000

No problem! Glad to see that someone is maintaining it.

I wish I had seen anybase when I was working on Shorten, although I'm proud of writing a Base62 library (even if it wasn't great).

Re: Shorten Your Own Damn URLs

amdavidson — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:32:43 -0000

I really enjoyed this writeup. I started to implement your shortener and ended up making enough changes that I figured I'd just fork it and posted my changes to http://github.com/amdavidson/s...

I updated the shortening mechanism to use anybase and randomize the short URL a la bit.ly and made it easy to deploy to Heroku.

Thanks for the inspiration and code base.

Re: To Be Done w/ Maruku

Daniel Harrington — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:50:00 -0000

just ran into the same problem. after creating about ten list items (some nested), another one breaks. moving it up or down or removing it and creating a new one does not work as well. why can't they fix this behavior? it's ridiculous.

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

Andrew — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:48:23 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. Those rules look better than the set I patched together from other sources after posting this.

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

Brent — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:45:10 -0000

This doesn't work for the Facebook Social plugins, which allows sites to add Facebook "Like" buttons, and show which of your friends have "Like"d their site. Those social plugins also allow Facebook to log every website you visit and when, which they do according to http://www.facebook.com/help/?.... I've come up with a few rules which as far as I can tell block any content from any of Facebook's domains (at least the ones I know about) from any website that isn't Facebook. So far, they haven't caused anything to not work.

||facebook.com/*$domain=~faceboo...
||facebook.net/*$domain=~faceboo...
||fbcdn.net/*$domain=~facebook.c...

(Incidentally, Adblock is currently blocking connect.facebook.com on this very page, thanks to the Disqus comments scripts. :-P)

Re: Block Facebook Connect For a Better Tomorrow

blaad — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:08:27 -0000

I tell fb that i only want to be discovered by friends of friends
so they make me discoverable to every website i go to
the mind boggles. great tip!

Re: Luck, Hard Work, Blame: How (and Why) Older Generations Hate Us

Anonymouse — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:55 -0000

"lying to us (or, at least projecting their own desires for a better world on us)"

That's along the lines of what I think. Baby boomers have always been totally self-righteous and simultaneously unwilling to admit, to themselves or us, that they did not create the world that they had hoped for during their 20's. With the wool over their eyes, they cooed at us in our cribs, pledges that the world was good to those who are good and that the world repays hard work. They bought in to their own lie and then spoon fed it to us along with every bite of Gerber strained peas. And we grew up to be one of the most honest and hard working generations of the century and are repaid just like the cows we were bred to be, lead to slaughter, our throats slit on the alter of consumer capitalism, our blood spilling into empty retirement coffers.

And of course, so they never have to admit to having believed a lie, they blame us, call us lazy, man-children; they blame video games and media so that they can go on avoiding admitting that they let the last century turn us in to a country of flashing lights and bright colors designed to deaden our senses against the horrors of unending wars and environmental destruction. At least I have the Internet as a constant companion, a friend that will always listen to my rants, a forum for the ineffectual mumbling that we have also been raised to believe is THE cornerstone of democracy.

Good luck to everyone. Perhaps this time we won't just dig the pit a little deeper for our children.

Re: Cooking Perfect Fried Rice

katcash — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:10 -0000

I found your blog in my fruitless effort to find John Kessler's delicious fried rice recipe. Thanks for posting a pretty darn good substitute for that recipe.

Re: What Happened To Short SF?

kemcrimmins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:55:04 -0000

I remember that post from IO9 but didn't really mark it in my mind because I've found that given my reading speed anything under 300 pages isn't likely long enough. But then, again, I'd not thought about attempting to teach these mammoth works. So after reading your post, I started looking at my books for something shorter, but with little success.

Michell Houellebecq's works tend to be under 300 pages. And I just received a copy of Ian McDonald's _Cyberabad Days_ in the mail. It weighs in at 278 pages, though I can't speak to its quality yet.

I'm in the middle of Boneshaker now, and again, it doesn't seem as long as it actually is. Accelerando felt long, but in a good way: I didn't want it to end. Unfortunately, if people are bogged down with all kinds of work, then it's less likely that they'd get into a longer work because they'd never make it far enough to wish it didn't end. :(

Anyhoo. Good luck with the course and thanks for posting your syllabus. I'm adding Yellow Blue Tibia to my Amazon wish list as a result.