June 2010
2 posts
Lift 2.0!
Big congrats to David Pollak and the rest of the Lift team on getting the 2.0 release out the door.
I first started diving into Lift back in April of 2009 when I was doing some deep thinking about what platform to rewrite foursquare on. I was already moderately familiar with, and very enthusiastic about Scala. The prospect of a Java like language running on the JVM but with a much less...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
February 2010
2 posts
trival backgrounding with scala actors
A simple backgrounding object:
object BackgroundOperation {
def apply(f: => Unit) = {
BackgroundActor ! BackgroundJob(() => f)
}
case class BackgroundJob(f: () => Unit)
object BackgroundActor extends LiftActor {
protected def messageHandler = {
case BackgroundJob(f) => f()
}
}
}
Then you can do this whenever you want:
BackgroundOperation {
...
“Why does Buzz even exist? Is it because Google wants to make my life better in...”
– - Daniel Lyons from Newsweek
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/02/10/google-buzz-more-like-buzz-kill.aspx
(via dpstyles)
January 2010
1 post
Scala Puzzler of the day
Many different database objects in foursquare have a foreign key to User. So I wrote something like so:
object User {
trait FK[T <: FK[T]] extends LongKeyedMapper[T] {
self: T=>
object userid extends MappedLongForeignKey(this, User)
def hasUser_? = userid.defined_?
}
class FKList[A <: FK[A]](list: List[A]) {
def primeUsers: List[A] = {
if (!list.isEmpty)...
December 2009
2 posts
“As a general rule, if nothing bad will happen to you if you free ride, it’s...”
– Will Wilkinson on technology investment
http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/12/09/some-game-theory-of-innovation
NFL Suicide League
I’m 12 weeks into my NFL Suicide Leage. So far I have used up: Baltimore, Washington, Dallas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, New England, San Diego, Seattle, Minnesota, Jacksonville, and Cincinnati. Looking ahead to the remaining 5 weeks I see these two as the best options:
OPTION 1:
Indianapolis over Tennessee NY Jets over Tampa Bay Arizona over Detroit New Orleans over Tampa Bay...
November 2009
1 post
August 2009
3 posts
functional programming ftw
Simple, but fun:
def partition[T](items: List[T], p: (T, T) => Boolean): List[List[T]] = {
items.foldRight[List[List[T]]](Nil)((item: T, items: List[List[T]]) => items match {
case (first :: rest) :: last if p (first, item) =>
(List(item)) :: (first :: rest) :: last
case (first :: rest) :: last =>
(item :: first :: rest) :: last
case _ => List(List(item))
...
Party Reminder
Karaoke tonight for my birthday and Alice’s return to NYC. 2nd on 2nd @ 10pm. Pre party @ Tom & Jerry’s. Facebook invite is here.
See all y’all tonight!
“Take a look at how Apple would be able to quickly build a large search engine...”
– Schmidt Resignation: Is Apple Building Apple Search Service? - SiliconValleyWatcher
Apple doesn’t have the technical expertise to build a quality search engine. It isn’t even close.
July 2009
9 posts
fuck the police →
The money quote:
“The District Attorney’s Office reviewed the case and declined to prosecute Officer Lopez in December. Eight days later, he was reissued his weapon and returned to full duty.”
Most annoying hit song of the 0's
peterfeld:
Lots of competition (“Soak Up The Sun,” holla!), and there are still five months to go, but I’m pretty sure by now it’s safe to give the award to Avril Lavigne for “Girlfriend.”
Disagree!
I nominate the Black Eyed Peas for “My Humps.”
harryh v3.1
I’m turning 31 so I’m having a karaoke birthday party. The invite is here. If you aren’t already invited it’s either because A) we aren’t facebook friends (in which case lets get that fixed) or B) I screwed up somehow. All are welcome.
Chewbacca. What a wookie.
spiers:
From Slate’s “Explainer” column, re: whether targeted assassinations are legal:
The Israeli military regularly engages in targeted killings. That country’s Supreme Court has ruled that these are legal so long as the targets are actively engaged in fighting or else work as full-time militants.
What if they’re, like, independent contractor militants and they work less than 30 hours a...
fuck yeah fennec foxes
My girlfriend started a fuck yeah blog.
http://fuckyeahfennecfoxes.tumblr.com/
If you like small cute things with big ears then it should be right up your alley. Follow away.
T&Js Tonight
With me being in Boston all last week, and various other goings on, I feel like I haven’t seen a bunch of you in forever. So I’m heading to T&Js tonight around 8. Come by and have a beer. Buzz will be there as well bringing back his “office hours”.
Who’s in?
May 2009
5 posts
April 2009
3 posts
Top 100 Restaurants →
fimoculous:
The World’s Top 100 Restaurants. Per Se (NYC) and Alinea (Chicago) are the only two American entries in the top 10. Others: The French Laundry (Napa), Le Bernardin (NYC), Jean Georges (NYC), Masa (San Fran), Momofuku Ssam Bar (NYC), Daniel (NYC), Chez Panisse (Berkeley), Babbo (NYC), Manresa (Santa Cruz), and Del Posto (NYC).
Dude, Masa isn’t in SF. It’s right next door...
March 2009
5 posts
pinche taqueria jumps the shark →
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Señor Frogs in Cancun,” owner Jeff Chartier tells us, “But it will be something like that.”
St Patricks Day
me: moving a little slow today
Alice: Heh. Too much whiskey?
me: it's all Alex's fault. We were gonna wrap things up and then she said we should make a final stop at the Whiskey Ward
Alice: LOL
me: where, by the way, I forget to check in so i didn't get my crunked badge! which I DESERVED
Alice: I thought you did check in? It showed up on Twitter bc rick mentioned it
me: wait, did I? now i'm not sure
Alice: LOL drunky!
me: I did! and I do have my crunked badge!
Last Dodgeball Ever!!!!!
xtian:
At the Dodgeball Shut Down party, I couldn’t get service in the strange basement it was held at. The clock was slowly ticking down to Midnight where the one last Dodgeball will be sent. My friends and I were sending stupid messages all night and couldn’t wait to see what would be the last one. As they were sending messages in rapid fire I couldn’t get any to actually send. So in Spite...
Whose schtick has become more hacknewis or... →
In my personal opinion, Gladwell by FAR. And I say this as a huge former Gladwell fanboy. I think the momenet when it all went south was Gladwell’s brief inital foray into blogging, culiminating with the whole Steve Sailer is a racist thing. It really let you see that underneath his nicely written bon mots there wasn’t really any depth.
That being said, there is just less of...
February 2009
8 posts
“Well, “cool” kinda sounds like “fun” and frankly,...”
– From an internal Google mailing list thread that started with information about some stupid open source project ESR is trying to start. I read this sentence and started hearing Jay-Z in my head
what's your favourite word?
saucy:
lovepuppy:
fullcredit:
lizziejeanne:
dweeler:
jspurg:
strawburyduck:
lovehopehate:
srsly:
theprosaic:
scatteredwords:
i like “carbaminohemoglobin” and “scattered”
hence my blog name.
sponge and box
Defenestrate.
Scandal
Superfluous.
atrocious
Unununium - 111th element on the periodic table
et cetera - it’s technically two, and it’s technically Latin. But I...
Dodgeball
My top 10 (1136 total checkins) :
151
Bowery Ballroom
Mercury Lounge
Lolita
Webster Hall
San Francisco International Airport (my traditional ‘sup SF checkins everytime I travel)
Fat Baby (I lived right across the street when it opened and went a ton before it started to suck too bad)
The Delancey
Larry Lawrence
Little Branch
/b/ Responds →
fimoculous:
…and the inevitable /b/ post following the interview. Welcome, newfags!
Rex, you should know better than to link to a 4chan post. It’s already a 404.
Reblog, recap, retcon
caro:
But I felt the need to inform our noble leader that many, many beautiful and dastardly things happened in his absence. Namely:
7. A great gathering was held. Attended by the beauties, freaks, and assorted revelers; a gift of water was made to neighboring lands.
dodgeball in the nyt
chelsaskees:
Look! I’m in the New York Times……see me? Look again….down….a little to the left…..yup…..that’s my TINY little thumbnail picture featured for this article on Google pulling the plug on certain products (one of which is Dodgeball *insert sad-face here*)…..
They wanted a screenshot, so I went to the website and did a capture of my most recent Saturday night. I hope none of...
We don't see them, we only hear them whisper
caro:
harryh: You know, there are other clusters of Dodgeball users in the city. People we don’t know. caro: It’s like Lost, and they’re the Others?
To be fair none of these Others have ever dragged one of us off into the woods or stolen our children. To my knowledge. Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t keep an eye out.
dodgeball status
fimoculous:
Brightkite: So they shut down Dodgeball last night, and now everyone in NYC has hopped on the Brightkite bus. Tipping point?
FYI: dodgeball SMS will be around until the end of February.
Things just went crazy with Google’s SMS aggregator last night causing it to send multiple copies of the same message to a bunch of people (this was obviously highly annoying). It wasn’t...
December 2008
1 post
harryh.livejournal.com
BTW, my real blog is at harryh.livejournal.com. I don’t post there all that much anymore though.
April 2008
1 post
Hello World
Knock knock. Is this thing on?