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Pete on August 30th, 2010
  • We're at the point in the project where you wonder if you're through the worst of it, or if this is the calm before the real storm. #
  • Surprise, surprise. Have to spend my day tracking down rendering bugs in IE and Opera. #
  • Correction: IE, Chrome, FF, and Safari are all rendering the page just fine. Not Opera, though. (Why do we care about Opera?) #
  • @AliKira Not yet open to the public, thanks though! in reply to AliKira #
  • @AliKira Appreciated — even if it is an Opera bug, still need it to work in Opera, so had to code around it. in reply to AliKira #
  • @tacojohn short answer is that bank website coders are lazy as shit. They're some of the worst sites on the Internet in reply to tacojohn #
  • @tacojohn had more comments on your browser/website issues, but I guess Tumblr doesn't have comments? weird. in reply to tacojohn #
  • @tacojohn Probably not missing much 99% of the time. All of the things you asked if it was possible to do, it is, and pretty easily. in reply to tacojohn #
  • @tacojohn What's more: your bank website likely doesn't NEED or even use any special features, blocking out browsers is a short-cut/crutch. in reply to tacojohn #
  • Music to my ears: "Whatever you do, don't commit any code before you go home tonight." #
  • @pslohmann of course you would do that in reply to pslohmann #
  • @zalmander or would they be an authority? in reply to zalmander #
  • Netflix iPhone app is pretty awesome. #

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Pete on August 16th, 2010
  • @jdwilson2 I'd probably have reversed that and be the one doing the cobbing, but some guys are into different stuff. in reply to jdwilson2 #
  • @xnotch Is the login timeout on the server configurable? Seems like any delay in response from minecraft.net results in "took too long" msgs in reply to xnotch #
  • @xnotch would love to see /offline and /online server commands so that a server wouldn't have to be restarted if minecraft.net hiccups. #

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Pete on July 21st, 2010

Apparently our efforts to “go green” are hampered by . . . ourselves:

We drink Diet Coke — with Quarter Pounders and fries at McDonald’s. We go to the gym — and ride the elevator to the second floor. We install tankless water heaters — then take longer showers. We drive SUVs to see Al Gore’s speeches on global warming.

These behavioral riddles beg explanation, and social psychologists are offering one in new studies. The academic name for such quizzical behavior is moral licensing. It seems that we have a good/bad balance sheet in our heads that we’re probably not even aware of. For many people, doing good makes it easier — and often more likely — to do bad. It works in reverse, too: Do bad, then do good.

“We have these internal negotiations going in our heads all day, even if we don’t know it,” said BenoĆ®t Monin, a social psychologist who studies moral licensing at Stanford University. “People’s past behavior literally gives them license to do that next thing, which might not be good.”

This is all to say nothing of the token environmentalists who do it to be trendy. Listen: if you think cars are going to cause catastrophic global warming, but you drive one anyway, you’re either lying or a hypocrite.

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Pete on July 13th, 2010

There are approximately a half-dozen things I could talk to you about with any semblance of coherence today, and this is two of them:

Suffice it to say that I’m a little too distracted to do much else right now.

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