Author Archives: David Terrell

Eamus Catuli

Posted on October 1, 2007 by David Terrell

I know I rarely post about sports anymore, but I feel it necessary to throw in a shout out to the Cubs. With the Mets out of it, there’s no reason we can’t zero out a few more numbers… AC … Continue reading →

Posted in baseball, sports | Leave a comment

Play the XKCD game

Posted on September 28, 2007 by David Terrell

When I’m bored, I sometimes play a game on xkcd. You just keep clicking random. You win if you get one that you’ve already seen in the same session. You lose if you get one that’s not funny. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in random | Leave a comment

C++ is the spawn of satan

Posted on September 21, 2007 by David Terrell

however, this does work: #include <iostream> template<int size> struct ptrsize { }; template<> struct ptrsize<4> { typedef int int_t; typedef unsigned int uint_t; }; template<> struct ptrsize<8> { typedef long long int_t; typedef unsigned long long uint_t; }; typedef ptrsize<sizeof(void*)>::int_t … Continue reading →

Posted in tech | 1 Comment

Relying on others

Posted on September 19, 2007 by David Terrell

Phil Wilson and Hugh Winkler discuss the pitfalls and potential solutions to using someone else’s 269 feed personal aggregator in their subscription list. If you look carefully, you’ll notice they mentioned this last week. That’s because when I hit Phil’s … Continue reading →

Posted in tech | Leave a comment

Quote of the Day

Posted on September 6, 2007 by David Terrell

Raymond Chen: Whenever there is a coordination problem, someone says, ‘Hey, let’s create a process.’ Now you have two coordination problems.

Posted in random | Leave a comment

shell split

Posted on August 22, 2007 by David Terrell

Dannyman sez: # octects oct1=`echo $subnet | awk -F . ‘{print $1}’` oct2=`echo $subnet | awk -F . ‘{print $2}’` oct3=`echo $subnet | awk -F . ‘{print $3}’` oct4=`echo $subnet | awk -F . ‘{print $4}’` Later, when reviewing my … Continue reading →

Posted in tech | 2 Comments

A Day, In Pictures

Posted on August 14, 2007 by David Terrell

Gabby was great. Rebecca was great. Theo was great. I got a phone call at work from Rebecca, that she was at the ER and Theo was at the downstairs neighbor’s. Other than a slight possibility of a lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in random | Leave a comment

Erlang wish list

Posted on August 13, 2007 by David Terrell

WSGI. I don’t want an apache replacement, or at least have to bootstrap one just to write a webapp. I’d much rather have something very simple and callback based to handle requests and output dynamic data (and push static data … Continue reading →

Posted in erlang, tech | 3 Comments

for loops in erlang

Posted on August 4, 2007 by David Terrell

For loops in Erlang: for(Max, Max, F) -gt; [F(Max)]; for(I, Max, F) -gt; [F(I)|for(I+1, Max, F)]. My I suggest instead either: lists:each(lists:seq(Min, Max), F). or: for(I, Max, F) when I <= Max ->   for_impl(I, Max, F, []). for_impl(Max, Max, F, … Continue reading →

Posted in erlang, tech | 2 Comments

Looking for a career?

Posted on August 3, 2007 by David Terrell

If you’re college age, technically and mathematically inclined, and detail oriented… I suggest Civil Engineering.

Posted in meta | Leave a comment