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Tuesday, April 29. 2008

noooo Posted by NN in blog at 16:40

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tags: coding horrors, programming

noooo

OK, I just came up with something evil. But, I like it because it saves doing that extra assignment every time

StringBuilder qs = new StringBuilder(); bool firstKey = true; foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in param) { qs.AppendFormat("{0}{1}={2}", (firstKey & !(firstKey = false) ) ? String.Empty : "&", kvp.Key, kvp.Value); }

Friday, April 18. 2008

Earthquakes are the new American Idol Posted by NN in blog at 08:45

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Earthquakes are the new American Idol

gimme a break already

I PREDICT A HUGE EARTHQUAKE

7.8 ON THE RICHTER SCALE

AT 3:45 PM

JANUARY 2

... 1990 oh wait

Thursday, April 3. 2008

tubes Posted by NN in blog at 10:03

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tubes

Damn. I get back into wanting to post news, or whatever, and there ain't any. Stupid internet. Be more ... dynamic.

Thursday, April 3. 2008

More insane code Posted by NN in blog at 09:42

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tags: coding horrors, programming

Tuesday, April 1. 2008

4/1 Posted by NN in blog at 09:43

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tags: holidays

I loathe April Fools Day. But, I've written up a rant about it about five years running. I want to turn it into a holiday called "Dead Serious Day", where everyone announces insanely outlandish things (like Gmail) that turn out to be true (like Gmail).

But, I could do without the bad news (Mitch Hedberg : [ ) which reminds me, I missed celebrating Mitch Hedberg Day the other day ;_;

Tuesday, April 1. 2008

C# Posted by NN in blog at 08:56

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tags: programming

C#

One thing I just absolutely do not understand is using properties vs public members. If all you're doing is { get; set; }, then how is that different from just using a public variable? Because it makes you feel better, like you're not exposing a public variable? Maybe there's some difference I just don't recognize or know about. But, whatever.

Thursday, March 27. 2008

I'll fix the stupid looking ... Posted by NN in blog at 11:54

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tags: COMPLETE

I'll fix the stupid looking bookmarking services buttons later.

Edit: fixed.

Thursday, March 27. 2008

fy,j Posted by NN in blog at 06:37

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fy,j

This just in: Jeff Zucker still a douche, NBC still in fourth place

(yes, those two things are incredibly related)

fuck you jeff zucker

Monday, March 24. 2008

hourly wtf Posted by NN in blog at 13:44

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tags: coding horrors, programming

hourly wtf

Drives me crazy when people create objects just to use them once, and don't even change the value of it that time. Especially when the thing goes out of scope immediately afterwards.

For example.

{ string message = "Error: user is dumb"; Textbox1.Text = message; } return;

WHY DO THIS. WHY. IS IT TO HASTEN MY INEVITABLE ANEURYSM. IS IT. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE. JUST SHOOT ME IN THE FACE INSTEAD. PLEASE. AT LEAST THAT'S MORE HONEST.

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Visual Studio 2008 crashing ... Posted by NN in blog at 13:23

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Visual Studio 2008 crashing immediately upon debug, even with a new website

Soooooo, I'll put this here just in case this happens to anyone else. We're moving to Visual Studio 2008, and VS and IE both would crash immediately upon debugging. Even with a new, empty web site.

Or, I should say, VS would crash and IE would hang until I used Task Manager to kill it.

For me, this was caused by having IE7Pro installed and using the AccuWeather plug-in. Disabling the AccuWeather plug-in only fixed this. Must be a problem with the way the plugin hooks into the status bar.

Anyway. There you have that.

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Life Support Posted by NN in blog at 11:57

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Life Support

I attended the Visual Studio 2008 launch event in Chicago yesterday. It was chillax. But the free copies of Visual Studio 2008 and Vista Ultimate are chillaxer. Not that I'm using Vista on my pc. That would be madness. I want to actually use my computer, not hit windows key+tab, say "Wow" a few times, then look at system properties and see all my unrecognized drivers. I still like to occasionally play pc games. You know, the old ones, from back when pc gaming was still viable.

Because pc gaming is dead. Ha ha. HOLY SHIT, PC GAMING.

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

10 items or less Posted by NN in blog at 11:44

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10 items or less

So I'd never heard of Spitzer before two days ago. Had you asked me who was currently governor of New York, I'd probably furrow my brow, think for a minute, and derisively guess Pataki. But now that I have heard of him, and heard of his past actions, I'm glad the douche got caught. The shadow government actually used their evil powers to do something right for once. Of course, he's inevitably going to get off somehow. Ha ha, get off. Guess he did that a lot already. I'm still convinced George Ryan isn't actually in jail, and is on a tropical island somewhere drinking mai tais and boning 13 year olds.

I'm really hoping ol' Blarghovitch ends up being Client #10. Or less.

I'm convinced no one is decent. Everyone is defective™. You either are a regular dude, or a militant religious/righteous nutball who secretly wears a slave mask, likes to be called Sally, and has massive scars on hidden parts of your body. Everyone has problems. Some people are just average. Some are extreme in everything.

Myself, I like young Romanian slave girls. The more desperate for US citizenship/regular shelter the better.

Friday, March 7. 2008

Damn Posted by NN in blog at 12:41

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Damn

I look terrible, like somebody punched me in the face. Huge black marks under my eyes. Especially the left. I don't remember getting punched in the face though. I do remember a weird dream about naked japanese girls and "Withered Hope" by They Might Be Giants however.

Thursday, March 6. 2008

NN in blog at 08:17

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This ...

This story is BULLSHIT. FUCK YOU, Pasadena. FUCK you. Also, FUCK YOU you stupid kid, this is America you FUCK.

To quote the greatest president of our time,

"Either you're with those who love freedom, or you're with those who hate innocent life." - George W. Bush