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Wednesday, May 16
Dear Fuckheads
Yes, you, who thought it would be a great idea to ruin people's websites with your horrible spam when it gave you a tiny boost on Google, and, now that your misdeeds have caught up with you, are issuing entirely baseless DMCA complaints -
Yes, you, who thought it would be a great idea to ruin people's websites with your horrible spam when it gave you a tiny boost on Google, and, now that your misdeeds have caught up with you, are issuing entirely baseless DMCA complaints -
I will cheerfully remove the offending links. Not only that, but I will also ban all the IPs involved, all IPs registered to your company, all URLs and trademarks and product names, and anything else even remotely associated with you or your business, from ever appearing on any site I run.
And may your businesses, whose names you value so highly, founder, fail, and rot in bankruptcy hell.
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But I don't think all this work is gonna help you in any way with your spam problems. The most spammers are from India and they don't give a F about DMCA or any other things you are gonna do. Wednesday, April 25
I Hate Computers
I have now been working for 21 hours straight.
I have now been working for 21 hours straight.
Computers are evil. Evil.
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Thursday, March 22
Another Open Letter To Bioware
And specifically to Mark Darrah:
And specifically to Mark Darrah:
Maybe I should just put a stop to something right now.Grow up, Mark.
We ARE NOT going to:
* Burn DA2 to the ground
* Pretend it doesn't exists
* etc...
I am proud of what DA2 accomplished in several areas. It is certainly not without flaws.
We have things to learn from BOTH Dragon Age games as well as other titles.
Starting your post by telling me to ignore the hard work of over a hundred people is NOT a good way to start a dialogue with me.
You just cancelled all future DLC and expansion packs for Dragon Age II, but you still haven't learned your lesson. Dragon Age II is not a particularly good game. While it's not awful in itself, it is awful in that it trashes the legacy of one of the best games of all time. It is not in any sense a sequel to Dragon Age: Origins.
This is real life. You don't get a reward for showing up. You don't even get a reward for working hard. You get a reward for results.
The right thing to do - and the sales figures and the cancelled projects clearly bear this out - is to abandon Dragon Age II completely. Burn it to the ground, sow the ground with salt, and forget it ever existed. So a hundred people worked hard on it? I don't care. What they produced is no good.
You do have things to learn from both games, but the lessons are very simple:
From Dragon Age: Origins: Do this.
From Dragon Age II: Don't do this.
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Friday, February 03
Other Days
See that post below? Strike that. Reverse it.
See that post below? Strike that. Reverse it.
Fontspring? Lovely site, beautifully organised. You can get nice, reasonably-priced bundles of fonts for both desktop and web use for "Unlimited Web Sites".
But the fine print says that you can only use the fonts on sites under your direct control, so I can't license them and offer them to mee.nu users.
Fonts.com? Not sure about the restrictions, but I checked the numbers again and realised that if a site like Ace of Spades were to use typography features licensed through Fonts.com, it would cost me $200 a month just for fonts, just for that one blog.*
So... Eeeeeh. Does Not Suck awards revoked. Both sites provide good, useful, reasonably priced services - just not ones I can make any direct use of.
Instead I'll mention Google Web Fonts, now up to 436 freely available fonts which I have conveniently integrated into the upcoming revision of the editor.**
The range of fonts isn't as broad, and the quality isn't as consistent (though some are quite good), but it doesn't tie my hands and prevent me from using it through licensing restrictions or simple cost.
And you can download the entire collection if you want. You'll need a Mercurial client like TortoiseHG, but if you're a programmer you should be using Mercurial anyway.****
* Admittedly, it's my single busiest site by a good margin, but...
** Well, I bought the editor, and it already had Google Web Font support.***
*** Well, I got the editor for free, but...
**** Git boo.
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Monday, January 23
Shrink-Wrap Licenses
Should be required by law to offer three options: Agree, Disagree, and TL;DR.
Should be required by law to offer three options: Agree, Disagree, and TL;DR.
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Saturday, January 21
Ancient Wisdom
A game for 2-6 players ages 7 and up.
You will need: One six-sided die.
Rules:
A game for 2-6 players ages 7 and up.
You will need: One six-sided die.
Rules:
- Each player rolls the die in turn. The resulting number is the age at which they would have died of a childhood disease now readily treatable or prevented entirely by routine vaccinations.
- The winner is all those who can rely on modern technology instead of ancient wisdom.
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Tuesday, July 19
The Other End Of The Spectrum
The other end of the spectrum from clueless junior programmers who tell you that your database can't scale to the level you already have it at, is highly paid and experienced consultants who tell you the exact same thing.
The other end of the spectrum from clueless junior programmers who tell you that your database can't scale to the level you already have it at, is highly paid and experienced consultants who tell you the exact same thing.
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Friday, July 15
Send Them All Back To 1985
Listens to developer explaining how MySQL is no good for really large databases, like, over 100MB.
Looks at 6TB MySQL production database handling several thousand transactions per second.*
Raises eyebrow.
It's pretty obvious he's got broken joins. The advantage we had back in the good old days was that rather than taking several seconds to return your data, it would take several weeks, and you could hear the drive heads thrashing about while it happened, so it was kind of obvious that you'd screwed up.
I've seen far too many programs where someone has failed to realise that the half a second or so that a function takes is because they've got it completely wrong, and it should be taking milliseconds or even microseconds. Send them all back to 1985, I say. Here's your Unix box. We just upgraded it: It now has two megabytes of RAM!
* Mind you, it's not easy to get MySQL to scale that big on a single server. But 100GB is perfectly manageable, and that's a thousand times what this guy was talking about.
Listens to developer explaining how MySQL is no good for really large databases, like, over 100MB.
Looks at 6TB MySQL production database handling several thousand transactions per second.*
Raises eyebrow.
It's pretty obvious he's got broken joins. The advantage we had back in the good old days was that rather than taking several seconds to return your data, it would take several weeks, and you could hear the drive heads thrashing about while it happened, so it was kind of obvious that you'd screwed up.
I've seen far too many programs where someone has failed to realise that the half a second or so that a function takes is because they've got it completely wrong, and it should be taking milliseconds or even microseconds. Send them all back to 1985, I say. Here's your Unix box. We just upgraded it: It now has two megabytes of RAM!
* Mind you, it's not easy to get MySQL to scale that big on a single server. But 100GB is perfectly manageable, and that's a thousand times what this guy was talking about.
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Saturday, June 04
I Hate Electricity
Power failure in Seattle's SoftLayer datacenter. I mean, SoftLayer's Seattle datacenter. I think. About 20 out of 30 servers at my day job fell over. Yes, they have redundant power supplies and are in theory connected to two UPSes each. Anyway....
By some stroke of good luck, all four key servers in our data path stayed up the entire time.
Everything else rebooted. Eventually. Except for our cloud components, which are dead as a doornail.
Power failure in Seattle's SoftLayer datacenter. I mean, SoftLayer's Seattle datacenter. I think. About 20 out of 30 servers at my day job fell over. Yes, they have redundant power supplies and are in theory connected to two UPSes each. Anyway....
By some stroke of good luck, all four key servers in our data path stayed up the entire time.
Everything else rebooted. Eventually. Except for our cloud components, which are dead as a doornail.
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Thursday, May 12
Great Art, Tiny Minds
So, I was just catching up on Ano Hana - which continues to bravely walk the tightrope of awesome over the great chasm of suck - and thought to myself, self, why not hop over to Youtube and find the opening and ending themes and plip them into your one-line reviewlet so that people can get an idea of what they're missing?
The answer to that question is, of course, Sony Fucking Music.* The only clips available are mirrored, distorted, or both, because Sony F. Music have taken down all the rest.
They're also the reason I no longer have a Youtube account. At least, I think so; Youtube won't actually tell me.
So, just trust me on this, okay? Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. Watch it. It's not for everyone, but it's sure worth taking a look.
* The Fucking is silent.
So, I was just catching up on Ano Hana - which continues to bravely walk the tightrope of awesome over the great chasm of suck - and thought to myself, self, why not hop over to Youtube and find the opening and ending themes and plip them into your one-line reviewlet so that people can get an idea of what they're missing?
The answer to that question is, of course, Sony Fucking Music.* The only clips available are mirrored, distorted, or both, because Sony F. Music have taken down all the rest.
They're also the reason I no longer have a Youtube account. At least, I think so; Youtube won't actually tell me.
So, just trust me on this, okay? Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. Watch it. It's not for everyone, but it's sure worth taking a look.
* The Fucking is silent.
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