June 2009
11 posts
Go away or I shall taunt you a second time
This is an actual law in Boulder, Co. I have to remember this the next time I’m drunk on Pearl St. 5-3-6 Use of Fighting Words. No person shall insult, taunt, or challenge another in a manner likely to provoke a disorderly response. If the person to whom such insult, taunt, or challenge is directed is a police officer, there is no violation of this section until the police officer requests...
Jun 28th
Jun 27th
5 tags
Mine eyes, they have opened
The rules for counting references to objects in ObjC/Cocoa has been haunting me for months. But today I found such a simple rule: If you +alloc, -copy, or -retain, you must -release or -autorelease. If you did not +alloc, -copy, or -retain an object, getting rid of it is not your responsibility.
Jun 26th
Jun 26th
Jun 26th
If you can't hit a note, at least scare it as you...
So glad to be back in Boulder. Really. I’ve been working on Pearl St. for 3 days now, and I’ve already seen a hairy-mountain-man-looking bum pass out in front of a fancy perfume store (hopefully he wasn’t drinking the perfume), and then get hauled away in an ambulance after a bicycle cop found him. And I saw all of this from the comfort of my office window. And yesterday, I got...
Jun 17th
3 tags
Jun 17th
Jun 4th
Early Apple business documents at the Computer... →
Jun 2nd
Jun 2nd
BREAKING NEWS: General Motors doesn’t know how to make good cars. Of course not; he’s a general, not an engineer. (lol please)
Jun 1st