How Do You Look When Merging Fails(andialbrecht.wordpress.com)
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails
http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/
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Hilarious. This should be built-in to all of those error-reporting systems that software developers use so they can really feel their users' pain when something in their software breaks :)
Amazing. I was expecting some theoretical dissertation about productivity and coding and instead, got a heaping spoonful of awesome.
I like how you can tweak the timing of the camera with the EMOTIONAL_SLUGGISHNESS_RATE
This was my first thought before I looked at the code. The constant name is perfect and intuitive. Great work.
The constant name is perfect and intuitive
I might have gone with DELAY_BETWEEN_DETECTION_AND_PICTURE, because it describes what the constant is used for and does not describe it as a "rate", which suggests some sort of x / t measurement where t is a unit of time.
I might have gone with DELAY_BETWEEN_DETECTION_AND_PICTURE, because it describes what the constant is used for and does not describe it as a "rate", which suggests some sort of x / t measurement where t is a unit of time.
OS X users can use this instead if you install "isightcapture" (available through MacPorts: "sudo port install isightcapture")
def grab_image(fname):
os.system("isightcapture "+fname)
Haha, and the picture comment by his daughter :-D ("you look soo silly") g
This guys projects are worth checking out too.[1]
If it does everything claimed (not tried it out yet) Crunchy Frog [2] looks prettyy useful.
1. http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/projects/
2. http://code.google.com/p/crunchyfrog/
If it does everything claimed (not tried it out yet) Crunchy Frog [2] looks prettyy useful.
1. http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/projects/
2. http://code.google.com/p/crunchyfrog/
At first I started thinking "well this sounds kind of silly" ... and then I scrolled down far enough to see his results and saw the perfect expression of what it feels like when this happens!
Don't code naked!
I also thought the straight to Twitpic feature could lead to some embarrassing moments.
Genius. Just genius. I wonder if you could do something similar, with a picture on every check-in to indicate code quality...
If only I used HG. If someone made this for darcs it would be a movie of watching a merge fail though.
Hilarious! I laughed out loud more at this than anything else online I've seen in the last year. Imagine hooking it up to a mic to also snap a pic when a certain volume threshold is exceeded; i.e. when you curse at your computer.
I cant find any documentation on installing CVTypes, could someone who knows some python help me out? I would love to play around with this and share it on github.
You have to download and install openCV =>
svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/opencv/trunk/opencv
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/PythonInterface
svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/opencv/trunk/opencv
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/PythonInterface
I just sent that to our team that is getting used to using Git/Github as opposed to msft VSS and were just asking about merging fails. :)
Ouch. I was expecting something about corporate image after a failed merger/acquisition, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Someone should commit an equivalent patch to Subversion and have it auto-email their developer mailing list.
* Subversion's developer mailing list, that is:)
That's just beautiful. Thanks for making my afternoon!
Love it. Love it. Love it.