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19 Aug 2010 »
git checkout -B now available in master!
Available after v1.7.2.1-103-g07cd900 on master.
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15 Aug 2010 »
Singapore-China Relations Forum
I guess very few NUS people know of this, despite the banners all over the place. But Prof Wang Gungwu's name caught my eye; I had some impression of him from his commentaries, back in the days when I used to read the newspapers regularly.
But, now that I ...
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15 Aug 2010 »
a perspective on Mexico's drug scene - from the ground
Check out Blog del Narco - it reports on drug-related affairs, but sans the risk and threats that a normal brick-and-mortar news agency would face.
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11 Aug 2010 »
minimize to tray for claws mail
This goes out to users of Claws Mail distributed in Gpg4win - apart from the TrayIcon plugin (which isn't available in Gpg4win's distribution), the tray icon feature can also be enabled by loading the notification plugin.
With it, you can minimize Claws Mail to tray - on Windows, at least ...
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10 Aug 2010 »
"&&" as control flow operators
Recently, despite having zero knowledge of Ruby, I read a Ruby article on
andvs&&, via Ruby Inside. It's pretty interesting to note such a distinction in Ruby.Let's have a look at python and JavaScript.
For python: the C-like
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10 Aug 2010 »
thoughts on productivity
But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can't write or program well in units of an hour. That's barely enough ...
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10 Aug 2010 »
segfault in tc/checkout-B
Today, while using my
git checkout -Bfeature, I stumbled on a spectacular segfault.However, gdb tracebacks on cygwin are terribly useless. Here's my gdb session:
$ gdb --args ./git --exec-path=. checkout -B rc/master GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License ...
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01 Aug 2010 »
a few thoughts on ActionScript 3
I just completed a "Don't Forget the Lyrics"-style program for a friend.
Basically, it had the following specs:
- load audio files (.mp3).
- load video files (.flv).
- load text files (.lrc).
- display lyrics/subtitles synced with media files.
There were also other requirements, such as having one-time-only songs, a ...
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18 Jul 2010 »
a take on 29th UOB Painting of the Year
— http://www.ri.edu.sg/main/rafflesnewsdetail/?id=438
I would have called it the Communist propaganda-like "The People United Will Never Be Defated!"
Check out 7:36 in the ceremony: the mad sweep outwards of the flag, plunging it headlong into the wind. Granted, the posture in the painting ...
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10 Jul 2010 »
coolest chkdsk error ever!
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>chkdsk /f g: The type of the file system is NTFS. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like ...
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