December 29, 2009

Filing Bug reports

Filed under: code,cute — Dave @ 6:30 pm

Ideal bug reports:

Bug Opened: 11:03am
Search isn’t working
For instance compare this search [URL ommitted] to the raw results
It only happens if there is one search result
The XML is being received correctly.
Your For-loop is off by one.
Change line 394 to read “if(results[0]){” instead of “if(results[1]){“
Nevermind, I did it myself.
Bug Closed: 11:25am

December 28, 2009

Our thoughts go out to Sweden

Filed under: funny — Dave @ 5:41 pm

Though, like all of us, I was riveted over Christmas by news of Sweden’s Giant Goat being burnt, we’re hoping you and yours are having a safe holiday season.

Arsonists have set fire to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.

Police in Gavle, north of Stockholm, said an unknown number of attackers had torched the goat in the early morning hours, leaving a blackened skeleton standing in the town square.

“It’s a tradition to burn it down,” Lofberg said. “It’s happened an untold number of times since the 1960s … it’s been burned down more years than it’s survived.”

Burning the goat has been a popular, and illegal, tradition in Gavle since the 1960s when an advertising executive first came up with the idea to endow the city with a giant replica of the goat, a Christmas decoration common in many Swedish homes.

December 16, 2009

Way to go reddit

Filed under: dave loves — Dave @ 3:27 pm

Congrations to our favourite* Y Combinator startup, Reddit for breaking the world record for the largest Secret Santa.

* Ok, it’s really more of a tie with Dropbox and EtherPad… oh and the sixty one and Xobni‘s pretty cool too.

December 4, 2009

Get excited and make things

Filed under: blog,blogging,dave loves — Dave @ 4:00 pm

A couple of days ago I got an email asking for a dataset I generated last year (not only am I an occasional blogger, but a practising statistician :) . It feels so good to make things: decks, data, art, programs, that I’m surpised more people don’t make more things more often.

Kudos to Matt Jones (via Joey) for the great play on a British WWII meme.

You’re on the internet so you have a computer and the ability to read and write. Make something. Then make something else. Repeat until awesome.

(Side note, we got some good demos during the hiring process. Almost everyone with a demo ended up in my wish-we-could-hire-more-people pile.)