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Random samples of my random life
1) Dear Lazyweb: I'm feel the need to listen to new music at work. Right now I've got a combination of Billy Talent, Rage Against the Machine, Smash Mouth and various others. From that random selection, can anyone suggest some music I might like to listen to? (It doesn't need to be new, just something new to me). Loud music is good to code to.
2) Some days I look at things that don't make sense and I say "There must be a reason for that". Other days I look at things that don't make sense and say "What the heck? What were they thinking?". Other days still I look at things that don't make sense and I say "What was I thinking?". Today is the first type.
3) Reducing yelp bugs by 100-odd is fun.
4) I've pulled a muscle in my neck, so currently I'm walking around with my head slanted to the left. It's not nice.
5) I wish all the doors in the world were ~ 10 cm taller. That way I wouldn't have to duck so much. On top of that (excuse the pun) I wish all beds were ~ 30 cm longer. I don't like cold feet.
6) My job has taught me to love 2 tools. The first is a visual debugger. The second is a visual differ.
a) Visual debugger: GNOME has Nemiver, which rocks. Except it's painfully slow to step through. And sometimes symbols go missing (compiled out, but not mentioned).
b) Visual differ: GNOME has Meld. Again, it's pretty cool, but it's missing 1 very important feature (for me) - loading a patch and showing how it would apply to something. If it had this, it would make patch review rock so much more.
[EDIT] I've spent some time discussing my problems with nemiver with the developers (who are exeedingly helpful and friendly) and the slowness comes from missing libc symbols. Installing these makes nemiver so much faster, faster than my previous visual debugging experience. Now, I am ready to take over the world with my visual debugging expertise. Just a note for future generations.
I'm done. Stay tuned for more random samples of my thoughts.
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Hey Don,
How about some Rival Schools, or Sparta and At the Drive-In?
Thanks for all the work on Yelp BTW.
On the loud music front, you can't go wrong with AC/DC.
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| Date: | January 15th, 2008 09:13 pm (UTC) |
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| | pandora.com | (Link) |
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About new music: Have you tried pandora.com? In my opinion, it is the best streaming website online. Flash is required though. And if you have problems logging in, try globalpandora.com.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 15th, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC) |
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| | Classical music | (Link) |
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Hi Don,
maybe not in line with the bands you mentioned, but I've found out that I'm very inspired when coding if I listen to Mussorgsky or similar. In particular listening to "Pictures at an Exhibition".
... You could try as well the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version: very good :-)
Bye, and thanks for the work!
Federico.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 15th, 2008 09:35 pm (UTC) |
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| | For music try last.fm | (Link) |
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Enter to the site, scrobble with your favorite music player and after a while it will show you recomendations based on what other people, with similar tastes, listen.
Hope helps
Keep good work at GNOME :D.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 15th, 2008 11:05 pm (UTC) |
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Fire by Electric Six. It's not very good, musically, but it's fun (and funny) and fulfills the loud requirement.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 15th, 2008 11:26 pm (UTC) |
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I love Billy Talent, not really into the others - When I saw them at Southampton in 2006, they were supported by Reuben, who were also pretty good (and kinda similar). Music I like that's a bit like that: Ash, Megadeth, Electric Six (kind of), Supergrass, The Buzzcocks... Music I like that isn't like that: Jamiroquai, Zero 7, David Bowie, LCD Soundsystem
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 16th, 2008 08:23 am (UTC) |
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| | Nemiver speed | (Link) |
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Hello Don,
I am Dodji SEKETELI, the initial author of Nemiver.
I would like to hear more details about the speed issue you are mentionned. Is it slow when you try to move to the next instruction or is slow when you try to step into some functions ?
I am asking that because we have done quite some performance work on nemiver and maybe the problem you are experiencing is fixed already. If it is not, I would be glad to try to reproduce it.
If you have a couple of minutes, I would be very glad if you could send an email to the mailing list explaining your problem, or file a bug in the GNOME bugzilla about this.
Thank you for using nemiver.
Dodji.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 16th, 2008 09:55 am (UTC) |
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| | propagandhi! | (Link) |
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How about Propagandhi? They're a bit old, but they kick ass, and are very conscious as well. ALSO: they put my hair on end. Yow!
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 16th, 2008 11:49 am (UTC) |
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| | Re: propagandhi! | (Link) |
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lyric and a half from these guys
"but wait a minute dad, did you actually say freedom, well if you're dumb enough to vote, you're fucking dumb enough to believe them, coz if this country was so god damn free, I could burn your fucking flag if I damn well please"
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| Date: | January 17th, 2008 11:00 am (UTC) |
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Everyone loves some Foo Fighters - if you get hold of In Your Honour its a dual hard/acoustic album. All of their albums are great to listen to while working - Dave Grohl has a talent for catchy riffs/drums.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 18th, 2008 09:33 am (UTC) |
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| | Good music | (Link) |
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Great selection of music you mentioned. A bit late reply, but here's a list of bands with similar style or at least loud:
Rise Against
Boy Sets Fire
Spineshank
Mustasch
Snapcase
Abhinanda (Album: The Rumble)
The Bronx
:) /C.M
| From: | laraj558 |
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| Date: | March 2nd, 2008 10:38 am (UTC) |
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| | Re: Good music | (Link) |
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Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne Alice Cooper Aerosmith AC/DC - koozies
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | August 4th, 2009 06:18 am (UTC) |
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I would recamend My Chemical Romance. They are a great band. Also sum41 and blink182 are really awesome!
And the doors and bed problem.... maybe you should just buy a bigger bed or make a bigger bed. Doors in life are ment to be how they are.
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