Archive for July, 2006
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
How fast can you type?
Time your speed here.
I’m about 80 WPM (with 2-4 mistakes per para). Pretty damn sad.
IntelliJ has spoiled me.
2 Comments » - Posted in Programming by dkaz
Saturday, July 8th, 2006
UNIX symlink ~= Windows junction
Need to do create symbolic links on NTFS? Try using Junction.
No Comments » - Posted in Programming, Windows by dkaz
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
GoDaddy.com Booking Path - Worst Ever?
Wow. I just bought a domain through GoDaddy.com and I’m absolutely SPENT!
It is, by far, the worst booking experience I’ve ever had - it takes a fucking half hour to actually get to the purchase button.
Can you possibly squeeze more upsells into a booking experience? Who the hell is running that place?
2 Comments » - Posted in Technology, User Experience by dkaz
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Simpson’s Paradox
One of the most interesting statistical phenomena I’ve run into is the Simpson’s paradox, in which the successes of several groups seem to be reversed when the groups are combined.
According to Wikipedia, this seemingly impossible result is encountered surprisingly often in social science and medical statistics, and occurs when a weighting variable which is not […]
No Comments » - Posted in Math by dkaz
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Markov property
I’m trying to deepen my understanding of Markov chains - it seems like I run into an application of Markov’s work on a weekly basis these days.
Starting at square 1…
In probability theory, a stochastic process has the Markov property if the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Math, Programming by dkaz
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Crayfish, Crawfish and the Decapods
My morning web browsing somehow ended up on Wikipedia’s definition of decapods. I started out by looking up the definition “crayfish” (making sure “crayfish” are equivalent to “crawfish”) - Tour de France today was passing by the “capital of crayfish” - and found it interesting that all decapods are made up of 19 body segments […]
No Comments » - Posted in Science by dkaz
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Downgrading MySQL password hashes
If you’re having problems logging into MySQL 4.1/5.0 from MySQL-Front, Drupal or some other client using 3.0/4.0 client code, you might be able to solve them by “downgrading” the hash algorithm for your user password.
SET PASSWORD FOR ’some_user’@’some_host’ = OLD_PASSWORD(’newpwd’);
No Comments » - Posted in PHP, SQL by dkaz
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
PHP - they were drunk
[00:51] DK: empty(”0″) returns TRUE in php
[00:51] DK: wtf were they thinking
[00:51] Josh: ha ha, they fail the assertTrue test
[00:57] DK: NULL == 0 is TRUE in PHP
[00:57] DK: that’s ridiculous
[00:57] Josh: sounds like they were drunk
