I keep coming back to this one.
I'm Mustafa Paksoy and I write code for a living. I post assorted items of interest here. You can contact me via email.
I also take pictures, dabble in Twitter and occasionally put projects on GitHub.
August 7, 2010
August 2, 2010
"My ability to decide how I feel about Wikileaks’ activities is totally annihilated by my ongoing realization that it cannot possibly be real. It’s a plot device in a near-future thriller novel. I mean, seriously, semi-stateless man with an unusual appearance uses an army of anonymous allies to expose governments’ secrets, and posts an insurance file in public with some kind of deadman switch in case he’s taken out by his enemies? That shit does not happen in real life. Julian Assange is a Neal Stephenson character who’s escaped in to the real world."
July 22, 2010
| Co-worker: | moved files |
| Co-worker: | scourge of p4 |
| Me: | more like code, the scourge of p4 |
| Me: | p4 would be so happy if it didn't have to deal with the contents of files |
| Me: | just the metadata |
| Me: | who has what opened when |
| Me: | it loves that |
July 18, 2010
May 25, 2010
Identity crisis
Web apps should look like great web apps. Not like 2rd rate desktop apps.
As Rumi once said, either be as you seem, or seem as you are. Otherwise we get into this uncanny valley situation.
March 24, 2010
Game of Life Implementation in Erlang
This is a Game of Life implementation written in Erlang. Each cell is handled by a single process and each process talks to nearby cells via message passing to figure out state. At the end of the simulation the cells send their final state back to the root node i.e. the process that spawned them. I tried to stick with Erlang conventions for recursion and whatnot, but there are some rough edges, aesthetically speaking around the array handling. Still it works, as far as I can tell.
March 9, 2010
Find file, cd to parent directory
For jumping around in elaborate source trees.
Usage:
cdto [search root directory] [case insensitive filename]
If you just want to search current directory:
cdto [case insensitive filename]
Automatically appends * to search filename.
Update October 10, 2011: There are some nifty cd related scripts in this assorted archive of shell scripts on GitHub. The CDPATH stuff is pretty neat.
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Using Dropbox as a Git repository
So last month I wrote a bit about setting up your own personal Git repositories on a Linux box, and how to use...
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Me: “Alright, I want you to go ahead and drag that file to your desktop.”
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“If a worker labors under the threat of force or of need, or a student produces on demand, we may admire what they do, but despise what they are.”
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How To Tell if Different Kinds Of Fruit Are Ripe
It seems like everyone these days has some kind of quick tip for gauging the ripeness of fruit.
Still, billions of shoppers every day find themselves in the produce aisle, ears pressed to cassava melons, grinning like idiots.
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Client: “I need your agency to develop a robust morale-boosting program for the top 100 ‘leaders’ in our region during our annual team building...
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EZ-Laminator450 Users Manual: Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
Is this the same type of laminator they have at high schools?
Yes! Your I.D. card...
