Народ,

есть ли у кого саундтрек к `X-COM: UFO Defense'?..

Буду очень признателен. Хвалят его. :)

Several days ago (~05 Feb 2008) scrobbling audio tracks to last.fm stopped working.

What is scrobbling?

"Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile."

Yep. I listen to music, a player sends track names to some server (post2.audioscrobbler.com), and you can see nice charts on my profile page.

Everything works fine until it breaks.

I suspected firewall (iptables) that had been enabled recently. But even without any firewall my player (amarok) continued displaying "Failed to submit several tracks to last.fm" error.

Fortunately, enforced with network tools (tcpdump and wireshark), I've found the proper google search keyword - BADAUTH - located in HTTP server response.

Googling was fruitful this time: the solution is to reset [the same] password at last.fm site.

"The reason for this was said to be that the hash on last.fm database for our password was corrupted due to some update on their database or something, so if you retype the password it should work."

Меня очень напрягает дурная работа и дурной язык программирования C++. За это платят, но беспросвет угнетающий.

Я очень хочу найти работу Haskell программиста. Только мне вначале нужно подтянуться, побольше на нем покодить... Трудно время находить - рутина высасывает энергию, - но нужно, иначе ж как.

* Ask Reddit: How do I get a job hacking Haskell all day?

Последнее сообщение викингов: "ВАЖНО! Опрос по ценностям бренда и лидерства"...

Отправляю их в Валгаллу: нечего Кобейна перекрывать.

Дорогие фрэнды!

Если вы обнаружили, что я от вас отписался, НЕ СМЕЙТЕ забивать себе голову вопросами "а почему?", "что я сделал не так?" и т.п.

1. Я вас по-прежнему люблю.
2. Я вас читаю через Google Reader.
3. Да идите в жопу! Что хочу, то и делаю.

Вы знаете, я теперь с нетерпением жду очередного бреда из корпоративной спам-рассылки.

Как только он приходит, викинги поют веселую песенку из оригинального монти пайтоновского скетча. Достигается добавлением в ~/.gnus.el следующих строчек:

(defun split-with-osd (split)
  (osd "Mail")
  split)

(defun split-with-vikings (split)
  (start-process "vikings" nil "play" "-q" "/home/vvv/downloads/spam-song.wav")
  split)

(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
      nnmail-split-fancy
      '(| (from "\\(recruitment\\|fooincbreak\\)@fooinc.com.ua"
                (: split-with-vikings "mail.spam"))
          (to "broadcast@fooinc.com.ua" (: split-with-vikings "mail.spam"))
          (from "servicedesk@fooinc.com.ua" (: split-with-osd "mail.sdesk"))
          (: split-with-osd "mail.misc")))

Ссылки:

• песенка викингов (текст + .wav файл)
• функция `osd'

Пора перестать париться. Нельзя ожидать разумного поведения от людей, которые не могут попасть в унитаз и не сливают за собой.

• Dilbert: Progress
• Dilbert: Agile Programming

:)

Господин назначил меня любимой женой!

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/3327
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/3328

:)

(Subject отсюда.)

From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:

creationism
 n.

   The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be
   completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of
   the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented
   programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good
   designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between
   one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and
   an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea
   is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the
   planning models beloved of management, they are generally ignored.

;) Have fun.

Since the subject relates to holy wars, this post should stay in personal blog. ;)

There is a rather active thread in xmonad mailing list, concerning Haskell coding style guidelines. And a question about what kind of import lists is preferable - implicit or explicit - has been raised in particular.

I choose not to use explicit import lists. They are tedious to write, they lead to code which looks dirty, and they are headache to maintain.

And I don't agree with the argument that it is hard to find a particular definition without explicit lists. It is not. When a code is loaded into ghci, I can use the :info command to find a definition. I can use etags (ctags?) to jump between symbols in my favorite editor. And when I am stuck (or lazy), I use hoogle.

It is so simple, it should stay that way. Let compiler do its job.

Народ, засуньте свои броузеры в XXX — у Opera теперь есть синхронизация табов через Web!

Feel free to leave your comments below. :)

UPD: Нет, не табов. :( Только bookmarks, personal bar и speed dial.
Bloody browser.