How not to Boycott
As you can see, a large portion of this "Boycott" group is playing the game.
There’s a couple of steam groups boycotting different games like Left 4 Dead 2 or Modern Warfare 2. But if you’re going to Boycott, please have an understanding of what that means before you join a group. The following is a picture of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Boycott steam group. Click the picture to enlarge it.
I can’t wait to see the outcome of the L4D2 Boycott group.
Setup a Source Dedicated Server
I threw together a quick video tutorial you can watch here showing how quickly and easily you can get a Source Dedicated Server up and running with Rackspace Cloud servers, check it out!
Setup your own web server in minutes.
I threw together a quick video tutorial you can watch here showing how quickly and easily you can get a LAMP server with WordPress up and running in just minutes with Rackspace Cloud servers, check it out!
Use Chrome, Safari, or Opera for Netflix Streaming.
Here’s a quick video I put together showing how to get Safari, Opera, and Chrome working with Netflix’s instant streaming.
NOTE: If you change Chrome’s useragent in the way described, all chrome windows will have that new useragnet. This can lead to problems with some sites. I’ve only noticed Gmail not working. To fix it, remove the custom useragent, or create two seperate shortcuts to Chrome, one for Netflix and one for all other browsing.
Update: Netflix now supports Chrome
Check your useragnet string here.
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code
I found a nice long list of excellent ways to write unmaintainable code, or code that will be impossible for anyone else to be able to read. Is also very likely that when you’re done, you won’t be able to know what your own code is doing either. List taken from freeworld.thc.org which was made up of entries from mindprod.com. With that being said, here’s the list!
General Principles
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
- Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.To foil the maintenance programmer, you have to understand how he thinks. He has your giant program. He has no time to read it all, much less understand it. He wants to rapidly find the place to make his change, make it and get out and have no unexpected side effects from the change.He views your code through a toilet paper tube. He can only see a tiny piece of your program at a time. You want to make sure he can never get at the big picture from doing that. You want to make it as hard as possible for him to find the code he is looking for. But even more important, you want to make it as awkward as possible for him to safely ignore anything.
Programmers are lulled into complacency by conventions. By every once in a while, by subtly violating convention, you force him to read every line of your code with a magnifying glass.
You might get the idea that every language feature makes code unmaintainable — not so, only if properly misused.
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