Comments for Sci-Fi Hi-Fi http://weblog.scifihifi.com Buzz Andersen's Weblog Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Data Structures as Culture by ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Float http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2004/12/25/data-structures-as-culture/#comment-19499 ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Float Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:10:21 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/?p=150#comment-19499 [...] My friend over at SciFiHiFi suggests that Microsoft likes trees, but Apple likes hash tables. Well, I think that Microsoft prefers integer arithmetic, while Apple (or at least Cocoa) likes floating point. Here’s a bunch of examples I found: [...] [...] My friend over at SciFiHiFi suggests that Microsoft likes trees, but Apple likes hash tables. Well, I think that Microsoft prefers integer arithmetic, while Apple (or at least Cocoa) likes floating point. Here’s a bunch of examples I found: [...]

]]> Comment on Anti-Americanism Up Close by some guy http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2003/07/22/anti-americanism-up-close/#comment-17347 some guy Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:37:40 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/?p=57#comment-17347 I am American and I live on Brick Lane, and yes, there is anti-americanism. Most of the rhetoric is intellectually-bankrupt parroting- empty and knee-jerk. The 20/ 30 year olds who spout this are mental midgets. Ignore it. If you are American, expect to get nasty treatment from many in London - Just make friends with the ones who don't hate you for your nationality. I am American and I live on Brick Lane, and yes, there is anti-americanism. Most of the rhetoric is intellectually-bankrupt parroting- empty and knee-jerk. The 20/ 30 year olds who spout this are mental midgets. Ignore it.

If you are American, expect to get nasty treatment from many in London – Just make friends with the ones who don’t hate you for your nationality.

]]> Comment on Data Structures as Culture by J.B. http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2004/12/25/data-structures-as-culture/#comment-15852 J.B. Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:31:12 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/?p=150#comment-15852 Whoa! I had no idea this would be so true industry-wide. I work at Boeing (150,000 employees), and one thing they're absolutely crazy about is trees, both in employee structure (management trees are *very* narrow), and programs (they like to put *everything* in big hierarchical databases). It's insane how tree-crazy they are here. The complexity is incredible; to generalize (slightly), nobody has any taste or sense of simplicity, so everything grows very quickly in complexity beyond the ability of any mere mortals to understand it. They even have a way to make a Gantt chart into a tree. Yeah, I know. My previous job was at a university. They barely even used the filesystem hierarchy: almost everything was two levels deep in the folder structure. It was very manageable. If I had to pick one data structure to describe that experience, it would have to be the list (either linked, or array). Dictionaries were a close second, just to store some key,value-style metadata about the lists. I'm now looking for another list/dict job. :-) Whoa! I had no idea this would be so true industry-wide.

I work at Boeing (150,000 employees), and one thing they’re absolutely crazy about is trees, both in employee structure (management trees are *very* narrow), and programs (they like to put *everything* in big hierarchical databases). It’s insane how tree-crazy they are here. The complexity is incredible; to generalize (slightly), nobody has any taste or sense of simplicity, so everything grows very quickly in complexity beyond the ability of any mere mortals to understand it.

They even have a way to make a Gantt chart into a tree. Yeah, I know.

My previous job was at a university. They barely even used the filesystem hierarchy: almost everything was two levels deep in the folder structure. It was very manageable. If I had to pick one data structure to describe that experience, it would have to be the list (either linked, or array). Dictionaries were a close second, just to store some key,value-style metadata about the lists.

I’m now looking for another list/dict job. :-)

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by Jay Datema http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15743 Jay Datema Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:33:52 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15743 It worked for me, too. For more granularity: 1. Open Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app 2. Double-click on the api.delicious item 3. Change the http://api.del.icio.us in the Where field to https://api.del.icio.us/v1 4. Restart Cocoalicious It worked for me, too.

For more granularity:
1. Open Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app
2. Double-click on the api.delicious item
3. Change the http://api.del.icio.us in the Where field to https://api.del.icio.us/v1
4. Restart Cocoalicious

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by Daniel http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15413 Daniel Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:54:20 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15413 That worked like a charm for me too, Bjoern! That worked like a charm for me too, Bjoern!

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by bjoern http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15131 bjoern Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:54:03 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-15131 So after a while using Pukka (and hating this shareware-reminder) i finally figured out how to get cocoa.licio.us up and running again: It seem there is a problem with the "https"-handling for the stored keychain entry and the configured API url in Cocoalicious. After manually changing the keychain entry to "https", restarting the application and typing the password again, everything was fine for me. I am deliciousified, again. My life continues! :) So after a while using Pukka (and hating this shareware-reminder) i finally figured out how to get cocoa.licio.us up and running again:

It seem there is a problem with the “https”-handling for the stored keychain entry and the configured API url in Cocoalicious. After manually changing the keychain entry to “https”, restarting the application and typing the password again, everything was fine for me.

I am deliciousified, again. My life continues! :)

]]> Comment on Data Structures as Culture by Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » Who Needs Data Structures? http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2004/12/25/data-structures-as-culture/#comment-12896 Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » Who Needs Data Structures? Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:29:05 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/?p=150#comment-12896 [...] Ran across an interesting remark in a discussion of Microsoft hiring interviews: If I remember, a lot of MIT people back in the 70s broke the computer world into the Lisp and non-Lisp data typers. The Lisp folk took a casual attitude towards data structures - just shove them in a list, put them on a plist, stash them in a cache. If it gets slow or confusing, add some tags and a hash algorithm. Most non-Lisp folk were appalled at this. They wanted to see the data structure design up front, the data relationship dictionary, complete and comprehensive, even before any coding started. [...] [...] Ran across an interesting remark in a discussion of Microsoft hiring interviews: If I remember, a lot of MIT people back in the 70s broke the computer world into the Lisp and non-Lisp data typers. The Lisp folk took a casual attitude towards data structures – just shove them in a list, put them on a plist, stash them in a cache. If it gets slow or confusing, add some tags and a hash algorithm. Most non-Lisp folk were appalled at this. They wanted to see the data structure design up front, the data relationship dictionary, complete and comprehensive, even before any coding started. [...]

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by Theo Beack http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11946 Theo Beack Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:50:52 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11946 I changed the URL as suggested (https://api.del.icio.us/v1) and restarted cocoalicious. Now I'm able to sync my tag cloud again. I changed the URL as suggested (https://api.del.icio.us/v1) and restarted cocoalicious. Now I’m able to sync my tag cloud again.

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by Chuck http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11587 Chuck Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:14:57 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11587 2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] NSError "Error NSURLErrorDomain -1012" Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1012 UserInfo={ NSErrorFailingURLKey = https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?; NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?"; } 2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] PARSE ERROR: NSError "Error NSXMLParserErrorDomain 5" Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=5 2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] can't reload from disk or del.icio.us 2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] NSError “Error NSURLErrorDomain -1012″ Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1012 UserInfo={
NSErrorFailingURLKey = https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?;
NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = “https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?”;
}
2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] PARSE ERROR: NSError “Error NSXMLParserErrorDomain 5″ Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=5
2006-08-24 21:13:16.070 Cocoalicious[1600] can’t reload from disk or del.icio.us

]]> Comment on del.icio.us API URL Switch by Alex Yule http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11557 Alex Yule Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:26:40 +0000 http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/08/12/delicious-api-url-switch/#comment-11557 Tried all your suggestions, still no dice. Here's the console reporto... 2006-08-24 12:25:37.046 Cocoalicious[405] NSError "Error NSURLErrorDomain -1012" Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1012 UserInfo={ NSErrorFailingURLKey = https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?; NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?"; } 2006-08-24 12:25:37.047 Cocoalicious[405] PARSE ERROR: NSError "Error NSXMLParserErrorDomain 5" Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=5 2006-08-24 12:25:37.048 Cocoalicious[405] can't reload from disk or del.icio.us Is it as simple as Cocoalicious just forming the wrong queries? I guess I don't really get how it works, so can't offer any insight, but I hope you get it fixed soon, it's a great app!! Tried all your suggestions, still no dice. Here’s the console reporto…
2006-08-24 12:25:37.046 Cocoalicious[405] NSError “Error NSURLErrorDomain -1012″ Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1012 UserInfo={
NSErrorFailingURLKey = https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?;
NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = “https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?”;
}
2006-08-24 12:25:37.047 Cocoalicious[405] PARSE ERROR: NSError “Error NSXMLParserErrorDomain 5″ Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=5
2006-08-24 12:25:37.048 Cocoalicious[405] can’t reload from disk or del.icio.us

Is it as simple as Cocoalicious just forming the wrong queries? I guess I don’t really get how it works, so can’t offer any insight, but I hope you get it fixed soon, it’s a great app!!

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