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Pronouncing English Vowels 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
It’s a well known fact that, in English, the way a word is spelled can have little or no relationship to the way it’s pronounced. As a native speaker of Romanian, which is a phonetic language, I find ...
Math is not important. It's fun! 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
A Mathematician’s Lament is this poignant essay 1 from a few years ago that I just discovered. I highly recommend you go read it now, because I’m going to give spoilers. In the introduction, the auth...
Getting the class name from an object instance 15 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am
I was recently assigned to work on a node.js project — a first, for me. I discovered that it comes with a neat CLI debugger built in, which is very handy when diving into an unknown codebase. However,...
Colin Powell on Loyalty 15 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the de...
Posts 2 Posts: Version 1.6 10 May 2013 | 02:00 am
There were some improvements commited to the development version of the plugin for a while and I thought I’d do a quick release, to get them in the hands of users. With version 1.6, P2P development w...
Ruby equivalents to PHP’s foreach 7 May 2013 | 02:00 am
In PHP, array keys can be either numbers or strings, whereas in Ruby associative arrays are a separate data type, called a hash. Here’s a cheatsheet for various foreach variants, translated into idio...
On Being An Open-Source Pragmatist 14 Apr 2013 | 02:00 am
To pragmatists the GPL is important as a tool, rather than as an end in itself. Its main value is not as a weapon against `hoarding’, but as a tool for encouraging software sharing and the growth of b...
On Plugin Support 10 Apr 2013 | 02:00 am
When I started developing WordPress plugins, most people asking questions in the support forums seemed like hobbyists building sites for themselves. Since then, I’ve noticed two trends that irk me. F...
Yay Data Portability 1 Apr 2013 | 02:00 am
In the following post, I will attempt to chronicle how I came to believe that having your content in a portable format is more valuable than having an open source project to manipulate that content. ...
The Last Psychiastrist On College 26 Mar 2013 | 02:00 am
“I’m not a vicious capitalist, I don’t always have to get paid for what I do. I like to participate in the public debate.” I. I. I. Stop it, look around! This isn’t charity, the Times is a billion dol...
