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Re:When To Write Bad Code on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:08PM (#5137824)
My personal version is "Broken gets fixed, shoddy lasts forever" http://mattrose.github.com/2009/02/04/broken-gets-fixed-shod...
Re:When To Write Bad Code on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:06PM (#5137820)
I write bad code all the time, I'm writing terrible code right now. I check in good code.

Some people can visualize an entire program in their head and how it will interact. Not me. I hack at the core of the problem I'm trying to solve, until I've solved it. Then I reorganize the code into something that (hopefully) isn't crap. It seems inefficient, but it works for me.

Re:Parsing HTML with Regex on Saturday January 05, 2013 @09:42PM (#5015037)
You cannot parse HTML with regex. You can find and match strings, but you can't actually parse html with regex.

Chuck Norris can parse HTML with regex.

Re:How Linux saved Amazon millions (2001) on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @10:47PM (#4995212)
post is from 11 years ago.
Re:"Yes its hard. But this is Startup life." on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @12:58PM (#4993243)
that sounds like a miserable existence. It's the 21st Century "keeping up with the Joneses"
Re:Getting better and finding happiness through cycling on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @11:44AM (#4992984)
Agreed. To properly get out of a toe clip pedal, you have to 1. take your hand off the handlebar 2. crouch down 3. catch your thumb on the strap tightener 4. pull it away from you 5. remove your foot fully from your cage

with clipless:

1. kick your heel out so that your foot is more than 13.5 degrees with your toes pointed towards the bike.

2. there is no step 2.