Month: May 2008

NYC Street Food

  • THE AREPA LADY Roosevelt Ave near 78th St., Jackson Heights
  • ANTOJITOS MEXICANOS Roosevelt Ave. near 61st St., Woodside
  • SAMMY’S HALAL 73rd St. at Broadway, Jackson Heights
  • KHAN’S 73rd St. at Broadway, Jackson Heights
  • TACOS GUICHO Roosevelt Ave. at Gleane St., Jackson Heights
  • HALLO BERLIN 54th St. near 5th Ave.
  • TONY “THE DRAGON” DRAGONAS 62nd St. near Madison Ave.
  • CARNEGIE JOHN’S 56th St. near 7th Ave.
  • HUAN JI RICE NOODLES Grand St. at Bowery
  • THE ESQUITES MAN Fifth Ave. near 53rd St., Sunset Park, Brooklyn
  • DOGMATIC DOGS Bleecker Street Park, Bleecker St. at Hudson St.
  • THE JAMAICAN DUTCHY 51st St. near 7th Ave.
  • XINJIANG KEBABS Division St. at Forsyth St.
  • KWIK MEAL 45th St. near 6th Ave.
  • CALEXICO Wooster St. near Prince St.
  • NY DOSAS Washington Sq. S. at Sullivan St.
  • HALAL CHICKEN AND GYRO 53rd St. near 6th Ave.
  • KIM’S AUNT 46th St. near 6th Ave.
  • ALAN’S FALAFEL Cedar St. near Broadway
  • ALL NATURAL HOT MINI CAKES Grand St. near Bowery

J.K. Rowling is a Fraud

Rowling “feels like her words were stolen”. Well, heck, I feel like the plot of my novel Ender’s Game was stolen by J.K. Rowling. A young kid growing up in an oppressive family situation suddenly learns that he is one of a special class of children with special abilities, who are to be educated in a remote training facility where student life is dominated by an intense game played by teams flying in midair, at which this kid turns out to be exceptionally talented and a natural leader. He trains other kids in unauthorized extra sessions, which enrages his enemies, who attack him with the intention of killing him; but he is protected by his loyal, brilliant friends and gains strength from the love of some of his family members. He is given special guidance by an older man of legendary accomplishments who previously kept the enemy at bay. He goes on to become the crucial figure in a struggle against an unseen enemy who threatens the whole world.

Heh. The whole Potter nonsense is basically a ripoff of ender’s game. Always a good thing to check for on friend’s bookshelves: If you see potter, adjust for dumb.

Ruby App Engine Hacks

at the end, a call for a common runtime:

What amazes me is how close Ruby 1.9 bytecode and Python 2.5 bytecode are. Some things translate almost directly. It is completely obvious that Koichi took his cues from Python. Storing argcount, nlocals, stacksize first. Marshalling bytecodes. Storing classes and methods as nested bytecode fragments. And, really, if that’s true (and I vouch that it is truly, truly true,) then how are Python and Ruby still on separate runtimes?

Use Frames

I looked at your code. Here is the problem. You are not using frames or CSS to mimic frames. This is not your fault. You were taught not to use frames in your class. There is a lot of misinformation in the information industry. This common idea that frames are bad is a perfect example. With the WWW, from here on out and especially in multimedia WWW applications, frames are your friend. Use them always. Get good at framing. That is wisdom from Gary. The problem most website designer have is that they do not recognize that the WWW, at its core, is framed. Pages are frames. As we want to better link pages, then we must frame these pages. Since you are not framing pages, then my pages, or anybody else’s pages will interfere with your code (even when the people tell you that it can be locked – that is a lie). Sections in a single html page cannot be locked. Pages read in frames can be. Therefore, the solution to this specific technical problem, and every technical problem that you will have in the future with multimedia, is framing. Again, Chris, you have done nothing wrong. You were just taught a lie. Frames are the answer, by explicit design.

the best arguments for frames i have heard in a long while