December 2009
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On commit messages →
A list of things you should do when committing, and why you should do it.
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WatchHaving been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.
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“π seconds is a nanocentury”
– Tom Duff
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I am an Islamic scholar who studied in Mecca. I... →
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“Like every English major, I once got all giddy over a musty aphorism from one of...”
– Scott Raab in “Dear God, what have they done?” (Esquire, January 2010)
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Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? →
Bruce Schneier on the value of privacy.
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On the modified prototypes in JavaScript
I wrote a small function that can be used to retrieve links to the unmodified built-in methods (useful when you are running code in the environment where built-in objects’ prototypes were modified).
var getbuiltin = function(obj, fn) {
var iframe, func;
iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
func =...