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Quote 6935

2013-05-22T06:34:09Z

<darktrojan> is there code to get a string ("three days ago") from a date somewhere in the tree? <reyre> darktrojan: NS_LITERAL_STRING("three days ago") <@khuey|tw> lol <darktrojan> hah <reyre> wait ha, i might have misread your question

Quote 6934

2013-05-21T23:24:11Z

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<andym> thought you went to sleep in about 45 mins? <ngoke> well it's kinda reversed now <ngoke> spent a lot of last night working on a sleep tracker

Quote 6933

2013-05-21T20:21:13Z

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<gareth0> rust follows the yoda school of error handling: do, or do not, there is no try

Quote 6932

2013-05-21T04:03:15Z

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<Jesse> what's https://github.com/Ttou/userChromeJS/compare/f77a57bee0...659fdd17ff doing on http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/ <Jesse> is xul a bad word now? <johns> I would certainly be offended if someone told me to go xul myself

Notes: https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob/master/scrape.py#L114

Quote 6931

2013-05-19T08:04:43Z

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<reuben> dzbarsky: you forgot your pants <reuben> !

Quote 6930

2013-05-16T13:01:48Z

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* catlee recommends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go&feature=youtube_gdata_player again * ted learned a few things from this Idiomatic Python video catlee linked to <ted> ChainMap is pretty cool <catlee> yeah! <ted> catlee: hah, funny that you linked that as i mentioend it <ted> i also learned about two-argument iter <catlee> I like the `for block in iter(partial(f.read, 32), ''):` pattern <catlee> :) <catlee> GET OUT OF MY HEAD <ted> get out of my head <ted> adgfasdf;jh <catlee> AAAAH -!- ted [luser@moz-FCCDEB99.sctnpa.east.verizon.net] has joined #releng <ted> ok, better now

Quote 6929

2013-05-16T01:22:25Z

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<ally> "The official drink of Mozilla is two drinks"

Quote 6928

2013-05-16T00:56:45Z

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<philor> fortunately for you, my goal is the same as everyone else's, stuff as much into there as possible with no thought to the consequences, so I'm about to reopen it despite the broken new slaves and the unexplained failures to build the thing that's what we ship

Quote 6927

2013-05-15T23:33:17Z

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// describing a conversation about TLS with Patrick <dougt> he also said "false start" like a dozen times too <dougt> i think that just might be a speech impediment now.

Quote 6926

2013-05-15T21:12:37Z

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<r1cky> we run like swiss clocks * r1cky afk a bit <mythmon> swiss clocks don't go afk!

Notes: The truths of SUMO.

Quote 6925

2013-05-15T18:59:04Z

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<bz> my phone will go boop-boop-boop <bz> then a few seconds lag while the phone network connects stuff up <bz> then the outgoing will do a brrrrrring <bz> and then after that the incoming will ring <bz> So I've been measuring delay from brrrrrring to ring

Notes: Totally serious discussion about Firefox OS optimization.