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Re: vegansaurus!

foon — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:08:31 -0000

No, they're actually good on sweaters. Just give money.

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Re: Ruby 1.9 Awesomeness Part 1: SecureRandom - Josh Symonds

foon — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:10:03 -0000

This was very useful, thank you.

Re: Integrating Asana and Git

foon — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:41:25 -0000

Good questions. I usually have Asana open anyway, so I do copy the ticket numbers from the URL. There are several advantages over just closing the ticket from there. One, I get the commit text automatically--so the ticket isn't just closed, but whoever reading it knows about the commit that closed it. Two, I get the commit hash as well--so I'll know where in history to look if it breaks again, or I can cherrypick fixes for a branch. Three, I tend to do a lot of intermediate checkins like "progress on X bug; references #1234566789". Once I've copied the ticket number for the first of these, the rest of the checkins are "free" as long as my git client can remember my last checkin message.

If you want to be able to select which tickets are closed from the command line, check out Bruno Costa's script, which is better suited to a non-gui environment.

Re: Domestic Drama Sends Owners of Vegan Magazine to Court

foon — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:24:39 -0000

Having spent a fair amount of time with Joe and Colleen, and having worked with Colleen on a professional basis, I find Joe's claims utterly impossible to believe--but not at all out of character. After all she's done for both the magazine and the vegan community at large, the last thing Colleen deserves is this kind of nonsense.

Re: Premature Completion: An Embarrassing Problem

foon — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:11:14 -0000

Whoops, I seem to be switching between disqus users. Foon and ultrajoke are both the author :)

Re: Premature Completion: An Embarrassing Problem

foon — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:53:13 -0000

The other option--and I would argue, the more reasonable option--is to fire the completion block after the duration passed to the UIView method, whether or not an animation has been created.
Consider a situation where the user animates a view that may or may not be onscreen. Is it better to do what the user expects, and run the completion after the animation duration regardless? Or should he have to special case and set up his own dispatch_after only if the view won't animate due to implementation details in CA?

Re: Premature Completion: An Embarrassing Problem

foon — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:43:14 -0000

Indeed, this is a key concept. I do understand it, despite the fact that it isn't documented. But it's not the point. This blog post is meant to demonstrate how UIView animation blocks that don't actually create any animations will call their completion blocks immediately. The example is contrived, and as you point out, easily fixed. Apparently I should have worked harder to make this clear.

Re: US States in an NSArray

foon — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:28:48 -0000

Merci beaucoup! Someday this page will be the #1 destination for US states in every language in the world. Thank you for bringing us one Francophonic step closer to world domination.

Re: Vegan waffle party in the mission on Sunday! Let’s EAT!

foon — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:10:30 -0000

The waffles were pretty good, and they had earth balance. Fake syrup, but I guess that's standard. I applaud them for providing vegan options--the menu has a ways to go in that regard (particularly for lunch), but a new vegan-friendly brunch place in the city is a pretty big deal.

Re: http://www.juliekraut.com/post/23668415405

foon — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:47:27 -0000

"The day after my birthday is not my birthday, Mum."
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: CALayers v. CGLayers, or, Which Layer, Player?

foon — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:07:04 -0000

In my experience, even when using sprites the best way to go is to set the contents of the CALayer to be a CGImageRef. That minimizes the CPU use involved in the drawing and compositing. If you want to use CGLayers because you're doing drawing and compositing in the layer, try and see if there's some way you can have CA do the compositing for you--by stacking layers, for instance. Performance will most likely be better, and CPU use definitely will be. You can also get fancy with sprite sheets by playing with the contentsRect property of a CALayer.

Re: Muffin Man

foon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:44:02 -0000

I think this must be the best blog post to ever use one of my photos.

Re: Infographic: An Education in For-Profit Education - Campus Progress

foon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:57:56 -0000

Right below the image, where it says "Sources:".

Re: Infographic: An Education in For-Profit Education - Campus Progress

foon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:19:13 -0000

Funny that you're excited about voting with your wallet, cause when it comes to public school policy, you can actually vote with your vote. It's a lot more straightforward.

Re: Infographic: An Education in For-Profit Education - Campus Progress

foon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:49:50 -0000

As others have posted in this thread, there are four-year colleges with comparable rates. But since community college credits are transferrable, I don't see why it matters. Thanks for the disclaimer, I wish everyone participating here with that affiliation would be so candid.

eta: also, more than a few community colleges offer four-year degrees.

Re: Infographic: An Education in For-Profit Education - Campus Progress

foon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:05:07 -0000

Ugh--I replied to this before but I guess my reply was deleted. So this time I'll do it without the links, from memory, and you can look them up yourself if you don't trust me. City College of San Francisco charges $26 per unit. Foothill Community College charges $17. I wondered if this was just California, so I pseudo-randomly checked other states. North Texas Community College is in the mid-60s. Pennsylvania's Community College of Allegheny County is mid-80s. Some college in Montana is mid-90s. All of these are well within the "~$75" cited, and certainly a far cry from ~$500.

Re: http://www.juliekraut.com/post/3875563456

foon — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:28:43 -0000

Unclear if you're talking about hippies or big butts. Or maybe both qualify?

Re: http://www.juliekraut.com/post/3443541173

foon — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:07:50 -0000

ENORMOUSLY jealous! Ugh! Do they come in vegan??

Re: Costco "bans" crated veal

foon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:25:26 -0000

Restaurants might be buying bulk veal at Costco.

Re: WTF, Curbed SF???

foon — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:22:49 -0000

In fact there's no difference between livestock and pet rabbits, that's what should make it horrifying even to people who don't generally care about eating animals. They're all the same inquisitive, intelligent, loving creatures.

Re: Product Review: Trader Joe’s Vegetable Gyoza!

foon — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:34:30 -0000

These are the best frozen dumplings I've found, which is ridiculous cause I've tried like every brand at the Asian food store. How can Trader Joe's be better? But they are!

Re: Just-opened B3 on Valencia is already courting vegans

foon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:40:28 -0000

I was under the impression Beretta used Teese. Which is, of course, better than Daiya.

Re: http://vegansaurus.com/post/894971864

foon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:16:55 -0000

What are the costs to convert a Tower Records into a food preparation space? Is that free?

Re: http://vegansaurus.com/post/895148436

foon — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:30:04 -0000

Even fiction should be internally consistent!

Re: http://vegansaurus.com/post/895148436

foon — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:53:45 -0000

Okay here's my (extremely off-topic) question: when the doctors at the hospital are fussing over Sookie, why does one of them say "I'll call the blood bank"? Didn't the invention of TruBlood obviate the need for blood banks?