http://paulgoscicki.com Random pieces of code, thoughts and movie reviews Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:57:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In no particular order: finally learned how to type properly with all of my 10 fingers (instead of just 5-6 begore). I'm at 25 wpm right now and that kind of blows, still, it was well worth it, although the learning curve was quite steep. And I'm still not pressing all ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/12/2009-achievements/ Would include: 14-15" OLED screen 3GHz Core i3/i5 (yet TBA on 2010/1/3) no ide, no sata, no cd/dvd/bluray just USB 3.0 and hdmi All of this is possible to make. No new technology needed. There are SSDs on PCI-E. There are OLEDs like this (AUO, LG). There are laptops on CULV processors below 0,8kg ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/12/dream-notebook-for-2010/ This example (shortened here): class Order def shipping_cost total_weight * 5 + 10 end end require 'test/unit' require 'rubygems' require 'mocha' class OrderTest < Test::Unit::TestCase # illustrates stubbing instance method def test_should_calculate_shipping_cost_based_on_total_weight order = Order.new order.stubs(:total_weight).returns(10) assert_equal 60, order.shipping_cost ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/mocha-the-stubbing-library/ From Why can't we concentrate? by Laura Miller: IQ tests have to be regularly updated to make them harder; otherwise the average score would have climbed 3 percent per decade since the early 1930s. (The average score is supposed to remain at a constant 100 points.) And IQ measures problem-solving ability, ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/debunking-the-stupidity-myth/ Yesterday was the day without google. Today was the day without electricity. Now without Google it felt like you didn't have a right hand, but without electricity, it felt like being crippled. Nothing you could do. Not fun. http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/electricity-deficiency/ There is at least one. So while today Google is having some heavy troubles with its services, my angry neighbour (who has internet connection through my house) comes at my door saying the network is down. - So what exactly is happening? - My Mozilla is not loading. Google: come back. World needs ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/negative-consequences-of-googles-ubiquity/ From the informal version of the Moore's Law: Moore's original statement that transistor counts had doubled every year can be found in his publication "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits", Electronics Magazine 19 April 1965. Moore slightly altered the formulation of the law over time, bolstering the perceived accuracy of Moore's ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/moores-law-40-years-later-still-in-effect/ From an imdb review: Pitt plays the character at almost every age, but it's almost impossible to tell when the CGI is being used on him. You know it's there, obviously, but you can't tell it's being used. When the transition is just smooth enough for the Visual Effects to be ... http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/the-case-of-benjamin-button-and-1080p/ So true, so true. http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/05/sharing-is-caring/ To anyone interested, here's the link to my github repository with all of my open-source projects. Most of them are my own Rails plugins, but I host the latest development version of the WP Movie Ratings plugin. Without any further ado, here it is: http://github.com/pjg http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2009/03/my-github-repository/