github/gitignore - GitHub

“A collection of useful .gitignore templates” - nifty!

Uninstalling Code Pilot 2

I’ve been trying out Code Pilot 2 - if you develop in Xcode I’d encourage you to check it out. It’s a clever piece of kit, but it wasn’t for me (old dog, new tricks) and I couldn’t find out how to uninstall it. There’s no info in Code Pilot’s preferences pane in Xcode, in the installer or on the website. Anyway, it looks as though all you need to do is navigate to:

~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Third-Party Plug-ins/

and trash CodePilot2.xcplugin. Job done.

It is not known precisely how the exact value for the magic number was determined.
Fast inverse square root - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, via @jsn00k. I love stuff like this. The second comment in the implementation from Quake III Arena probably sums it up for most of us; I have no idea how this works, I’m just glad it does.

Wikipedia

At the present moment Bond is particularly anxious for expertise on the weapons likely to be carried by Russian agents and I wonder if you have any information on this.
Letters of Note: May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?

lettersofnote.com

Was the name Wendy created for Peter Pan?

A well-worn myth put to rest.

When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Austin Kleon (via marco)

marco

Dates in Excel spreadsheets: In reality, there are no such things. What you have are floating point numbers and pious hope.
The xlrd Module

lexicon.net

Urbanape: Show Me the Way

urbanape:

So, earlier today, I said this:

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I arrived at that conclusion by enabling the Personal Hotspot on my iPhone 4, connecting my iPad to it, launching Maps, and hitting the Location arrow to find my location.

Only my laboratory was my home office, with my desk six feet from my Airport Extreme…

urbanape

Good start (Taken with Instagram at Paddington Station Platform 1)

Good start (Taken with Instagram at Paddington Station Platform 1)

Big Swing Face

Big Swing Face

The Buddy Rich Big Band playing Big Swing Face is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time; an ensemble of some of the greatest musicians of all time at the top of their game. I challenge you to listen to this and not start tapping your foot - I think you’ll find it’s impossible. The trumpet glissando at 4:00 is simply sublime.