Elf Sternberg
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It used to be possible for Linux users to find and save the movie file from a Flash download with earlier versions of the Flash plug-in. Flash put the file in the /tmp directory and if you were quick you could copy it elsewhere. If you had a plethora of Flash files, you could often [...]
Okay, since I’ve had the heart-to-heart with the boss, I should ask y’all for the same understanding: I’m looking for work again. I love working where I am now, the absolute freedom, the responsibility for the entire working stack from the OS up to the CSS/JS/HTML deployment layer, but right now this is an underfunded [...]
Last night at the Django meetup, we also talked about unit testing. Someone mentioned continuous integration, and we all discussed our favorites. At one point, the fellow at whose offices we were holding the meeting mentioned that his team used Hudson and pulled up an example on the overhead projector. I mentioned that Hudson was [...]
I have this t-shirt. It reads: “Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil.” Because if we take those two first popular truisms and put them together, we get a very unpopular conclusion. The truisms of our business are “It’s an attention economy, where revenue is driven by how much attention you can get,” [...]
20Oct
Probably my most annoying coding blind spot…
Posted by Elf Sternberg as personal, programming, python
Do you have that one thing that you have to constantly look up? In python, to replace elements of a string, there are two operators. One is a strictly linear search, the other uses regular expressions. The regexp call to replace part of a string with another string is sub, and the string call to [...]
08Apr
I’ve put up my resume.
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Design, javascript, Linux, personal, python, web development
As some of you may have heard, I recently lost my job at Isilon. In that great tradition, I have put up my resume. Have a look, and please comment on the content or presentation of either version: Kenneth M. Sternberg, Senior Web and User Interface Developer and Designer. There’s a copy for printing here.
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Hi. For those of you who are new to the Elf Sternberg brand, allow me to introduce myself. I’m one of the curmudgeonly old men of the Internet and I started my first blog around 1991 (no, that’s not a typo, you young whippersnapper). Most people know me as a adult science fiction and fantasy [...]
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