Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade(themorningnews.org)

113 pointsby SapphireSun17 anni fa16 comments

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/tricks_of_the_trade.php

6 comments

This post was the precursor for http://www.tradetricks.org/, which used to publish user-submitted tricks every day. Start here and click through:

http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001915.html

(I can't find an index page.)

gometro3317 anni fa

FTA: "...the gap between software engineers and birthday clowns is almost negligible."

True.

bootload17 anni fa

"... Mapmakers will often use “copyright traps,” bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong ..."

Very true. I once had to re-do a map for this exact reason though I'm not sure the "purposeful" fit was to get the major intersection on the page or to catch people out.

"... In Australia, the butchers have a secret language called “rechtub klat” ..."

keew txen tuo siht yrt ot gniog.

Oatmeat17 anni fa

From the article it appears that in "rechtub klat" the letters in a word are reversed, but the words have the same order in the sentence. So it would be:

  "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew"

albemuth17 anni fa

He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' '

bootload17 anni fa

"... He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' ' ..."

Nothing so elaborate, just in my head.

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lunchbox17 anni fa

I think you mean "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew" :)

bootload17 anni fa

"... gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew ..."

Yes. I did this the first time but read the original as 'talk butcher' not 'butcher talk'.

SapphireSun17 anni fa

Heh, I started measuring my fingers after reading this. It's kind of mind boggling how symmetrical your left and right hand are.

shalmanese17 anni fa

This is a great article and where I got the inspiration for the term Acting Sober: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/oct-28th-day-16-acting-sober...

ojbyrne17 anni fa

I know it's not quite the same thing, but I have a t-shirt (from an Irish pub) that has the great W.B. Yeats quote:

"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober."

c00p3r17 anni fa

“and I’m thinking of incorporating some XML functionality” - is it still 1999? =)

lunchbox17 anni fa

"Published August 24, 2004"

wyday17 anni fa

The updated example would be "incorporating Cloud API".

jmtulloss17 anni fa

Or "rewriting the whole thing in Rails, using agile development practices, of course."

ojbyrne17 anni fa

That's a couple of years out of date. These days it would be more like "server-side doesn't matter, we use jquery on the front end to build a rich front end without proprietary products." Though, since I've actually said that myself, I'm not willing to admit that's a trick yet.