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Tue, 19 Aug 2008

For Timo art with me

Chris Wakelin asks Timo of Dovecot to change his English usage:

I've been meaning to tell you that should be "Yeah" for an informal version of "Yes", otherwise it's a very archaic form of "Yes" or "Indeed" as in "Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death"!

Stewart Dean points out:

But Timo walks through the valley of the shadow for us all.....so maybe he's entitled.....

Psalm 23:4

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Tue, 12 Aug 2008

Geocoding location

Writes Aldon Hynes:

A random thought to muck up the works... What about people posting locations from virtual worlds?

Steve's head explodes.


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Mon, 19 May 2008

Humility in the open source world

"Thanks, Markus. I'm glad to know I was dumb"

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Fri, 16 May 2008

Another satisfied customer (of Dovecot)

everything is perfect.

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Sat, 03 May 2008

Lessons to learn 

<vsrinivas> what I really really wish existed somewhere was a 'lessons to learn from N'
<vsrinivas> where N was plan9, coyotos, erlang, alef, ....
<vsrinivas> because srsly, we're not using them. but it'd be nice to understand what worked and what didn't and how it was applicable to reality
<paulproteus> "Programming UNIX as if it were Plan 9"
<paulproteus> "Programming Python as if it were Erlang"
<paulproteus> "Coyotos idioms for kernel designers"
<vsrinivas> something like that
<paulproteus> "Alef for Naught?  Not!"
<vsrinivas> hahahahahaha!

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eSpeak

While I was listening to the Raven, Matt remarks:

"I don't know what the purpose is, but clearly it should be a female voice with a British accent."

Kragen replies online: "oh, use -v en/en+f2 for that"

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Sat, 15 Mar 2008

Crunchy

"Crunchy is an application that formats and delivers html-written Python tutorials inside a browser window, adding interactive elements and snazzy navigation."

It looks good, and it seems at least more complete than "half-baked". I haven't tried it.


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Mon, 14 Jan 2008

Unix permissions

"Unix permissions are weird sometimes, like a $100 television tube that protects a 50 cent fuse by blowing first."

-- Jerry Yeager.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2008

Ronald patch

I saw this on the Dovecot mailing list: 

Mr. McDonald,

I haven't investigated too deeply but I presume your patch requires a  
bit of modification to apply to roundcubemail-0.1-rc2.

BTW, my kids just LOVE your burgers!

B. Bodger

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Wed, 26 Sep 2007

Python police

Are the Python police going to come and arrest me? Have I committed the terrible crime of being unPythonic? (Or should that be un_pythonic?)

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