Exception Duck: September 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

Walking Randomly � Best source code comment ever?

Walking Randomly � Best source code comment ever?: "//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 32
//"

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Javascript closure compiler error.

Google closure compiler converts



var jsonvar;

eval('jsonvar = '+msg.d+');

for(var i = 0;i<jsonvar.length;i++)

{

   dochicken(jsonvar[i].Chicken);

}



 for(d = 0;d < (void 0).length;d++) {

  dochicken((void 0)[d].Chicken);

}

So don't declare your json ajax receptor before usage.

Revised according to comment:
Closure can start to do weird things if you include variable names in eval text.

This is a better solution from John:



var jsonvar = eval("(" + msg.d+ ")");

for(var i = 0;i{

dochicken(jsonvar[i].Chicken);

}

CHIKEN();CHIKEN();

Monday, September 20, 2010

Spaghetti code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Streisand Effect � Blog Archive � Ralph Lauren doesn’t like that you don’t like their ad

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Patrick Millard | Formatting Gaia � Blog Archive � Don’t Tell the Creative Department, but Software Can Produce Ads, Too

Patrick Millard | Formatting Gaia � Blog Archive � Don’t Tell the Creative Department, but Software Can Produce Ads, Too: "The software is called CAI, pronounced Kay, for Creative Artificial Intelligence."

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Decoding spoken words from brain signals | KurzweilAI

Decoding spoken words from brain signals | KurzweilAI: "University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain."