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Stevey's Blog Rants
Random whining and stuff.
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Read 6 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 9 years.
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Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're Using
Ah, clickbait. Where would the internet be without it? The answer will shock you! But seriously, I didn't mean to insult your favorite language… much. After all, your language of choice is probably getting better at a glacial pace. Right? If your language isn't dead, then it's gradually getting better as they release updates to it. How slowly, though? Well... If the language you're using happens…
The Monkey and the Apple
It's been a while! I took a couple of years off blogging because I felt I didn't have much left in the way of interesting things to say. So I've been just been programming, and studying, and learning this and that. I've been doing a bit of Cloud development, and I taught myself iOS development, and after years in the Google cocoon I poked my head out and learned how people do things in the real…
The Borderlands 2 Gun Discarders Club
This is basically a review of, and a pros/cons rant about, Borderlands 2. If you're not into it, just don't read it! I'll write about stuff you like some other time. Maybe. So! I'm not the kind of person to say "I told you so." Noooo. Never. Well, never, unless , of course, I get to say it loudly, within hearing of a biggish stadium full of people. Which I can. So here goes: I told you so . Toldya…
The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club
Craw is so damn frustrating!!! He and his sidekicks have killed me so many times that I think I am starting to get sore in real life....arghhh need better weapon!! He will die though, oh yes he will die and I will do the brick dance around his stupid purple corpse. -- dedbydwn At the end of it all, Borderlands is well presented, but get under the {incomprehensible mumble} polish, it's just a dull,…
Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
I woke up this morning...ish... to discover that Hacker News had finally had enough of me being at Google, so they forced me into early retirement. On Monday I was honored to be able to deliver a keynote talk at OSCON Data . In the talk, I announce at the end that I am quitting a project that I had very publicly signed up for, one that I am not passionate about and don't personally think is very…
eBay Patents 10-Click Checkout
San Jose, CA ( Reuters ) - Online auctions cartel eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and its collections and incarceration arm PayPal announced that on July 21, 2011, the two companies had jointly been awarded United States Patent No. 105960411 for their innovative 10-click “Buy it Now” purchasing pipeline. The newly-patented buying system guides users through an intuitive, step-by-step process of clicking “Buy…
Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
The worldwide Haskell community met up over beers today to celebrate their unprecedented discovery of an industry programmer who gives a shit about Haskell. On Wednesday, researchers issued a press release revealing that 27-year-old Seth Briars of North Carolina, a Java programmer at Blackwater accounting firm Ross and Fordham, actually gives a shit about Haskell. "Mr. Briars has followed every…
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed
EYJAFJÖLL, ICELAND - Java programmers around the globe are in a panic today over a Wikileaks press release issued at 8:15am GMT. Wikileaks announced that they will re-release the source code for thousands of Open Source Java projects, making all access modifiers 'public' and all classes and members non-'final'. Agile Java Developer Johnnie Garza of Irvine, CA condemns the move. "They have no right…
Blogger Finger
Well! I've sure had a nice relaxing blog-free year. No worries, no haters, no Nooglers wandering by my office and staring at me through the window as if they expect me to crap in my hand and hurl it at them. Not that I wasn't tempted. Nope, it's just been peace and quiet and reading and coding and practicing my guitar and stuff. It's been awesome. And now that everyone's completely forgotten who I…