Mr. Popularity

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/02/19/the-devil-has-been-in-twice-as-many-movies-as-jesus-and-how-that-has-changed-our-theology/ An interesting discussion on the origins of our shared concept of the devil. And by interesting I mean how little of it is shaped by the historical tome as compared to popular culture.

Geek Code

I remember spending an afternoon studiously plonking out my GC [1]. I may have even included it in an email signature at the time. Man….blast from the past. Brought to you by a light discussion at work of creating a unique identifier for every developer based on their positions in the various geek religious wars…

The drudgery

Not sure how many times I’ve been through the steps in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhMQIpCP1A. Most irritating to me is the way in which the bug in GRUB that doesn’t kill a boot process but throws a bunch of misleading errors was skipped over. Went down a bit rabbit hole on that when it turns out…

Linq fail

My favoritest thing about Linq is that no one around here writes it natively. It always ends up in the code base via Resharper translating a block foreach and if/else statements. It looks awesome and is totally terse. Unfortunately, whenever you need to refactor that Linq statement the first thing you end up doing is…

Extremes

What happens when you subtract all the extraneous jibberish from television shows: Family Feud takes three minutes [1] Dr. Phil becomes entertaining [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8tCm3nol8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F0Mer4kDDY