May 2012
41 posts
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Hoping to start my first Lucene implementation at work tomorrow if I have enough time to dig through the docs and determine it’s the right tool for the task. Kind of exciting seeing as it powers search on some big swinging dick sites. It still doesn’t feel like I’m working for an Alexa top 100 website.
Who uses Lucene you ask? Some cool cats like Apple, AOL, Disney, Apache, IBM,...
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Fuck you, German engineering.
So over cars. Why can’t one get by solely with walking in Houston? WHY DO I WORK IN THE WOODLANDS?!
Happy Friday. I feel Hay Merchant or something equally capable of drowning sorrows tonight.
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Prototypal Inheritance in Javascript | Douglas... →
Obviously been fighting to modify scope today. Most of the day. Too much of the day.
Every time I visit a tumblr’s archive page I am re-blown away. Such elegant Javascript in that bad boy. I wish it wasn’t obfuscated so I could be “inspired” by it.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains...
– Nikola Tesla
That’s an easy one—lack of curiosity. They were so satisfied with the work that...
– Doug Crockford responding to “What were the traits of weak programmers you’ve seen over your career?”
April 2012
17 posts
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