“What an excellent day for an exorcism.”
—http://imdb.com/title/tt0070047/quotes
December 2012
31 posts
“The actual distance the bridge pickup was moved is .40” (just under 1/2”). It was done just for cosmetic reasons….as you said, to fit under the bridge cover. Tonality had nothing to do with it! The tonal effect when soloed is a bit more of a midrange tone. Many people associate the 70’s bridge PU tone with Jaco, but he played on 60’s instruments. Roger”
—Roger Sadowsky on Jazz bass’ bridge pickup location in 60s vs 70s
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“But nothing gets noticed more than which employees constantly turn up late. Even if bosses say they don’t care – they do. Nothing tarnishes your reputation more quick than being THAT person”
—Some Quick Sage Advice for Young Employees Early in Their Careers
Better Python APIs →
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“Thank you for your offer of $300 USD. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to make a deal at this level. I would need an offer from you that is much closer to the $69,000 USD”
—Some dipshit trying to sell me a domain name
“Basically your code is never free from errors. “alpha”, “beta”, “production read”, and “rock solid” are just names we assign to the probability we believe there is for a serious error to be discovered in a reasonable time frame.”
—More on the nature of bugs and crashes in this post from the creator of Redis, the ever-insightful Salvatore Sanfilippo. (via arseniosantos)
November 2012
22 posts
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