Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/tricks_of_the_trade.php

by SapphireSun • 17 years ago

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c00p3r• 17 years ago

“and I’m thinking of incorporating some XML functionality” - is it still 1999? =)

lunchbox3• 17 years ago

"Published August 24, 2004"

wyday• 17 years ago

The updated example would be "incorporating Cloud API".

lunchbox3• 17 years ago

This post was the precursor for http://www.tradetricks.org/, which used to publish user-submitted tricks every day. Start here and click through:

http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001915.html

(I can't find an index page.)

shalmanese• 17 years ago

This is a great article and where I got the inspiration for the term Acting Sober: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/oct-28th-day-16-acting-sober...

ojbyrne2• 17 years ago

I know it's not quite the same thing, but I have a t-shirt (from an Irish pub) that has the great W.B. Yeats quote:

"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober."

bootload3• 17 years ago

"... Mapmakers will often use “copyright traps,” bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong ..."

Very true. I once had to re-do a map for this exact reason though I'm not sure the "purposeful" fit was to get the major intersection on the page or to catch people out.

"... In Australia, the butchers have a secret language called “rechtub klat” ..."

keew txen tuo siht yrt ot gniog.

lunchbox3• 17 years ago

I think you mean "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew" :)

bootload3• 17 years ago

"... gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew ..."

Yes. I did this the first time but read the original as 'talk butcher' not 'butcher talk'.

Oatmeat• 17 years ago

From the article it appears that in "rechtub klat" the letters in a word are reversed, but the words have the same order in the sentence. So it would be:

  "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew"

albemuth• 17 years ago

He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' '

SapphireSun• 17 years ago

Heh, I started measuring my fingers after reading this. It's kind of mind boggling how symmetrical your left and right hand are.

gometro33• 17 years ago

FTA: "...the gap between software engineers and birthday clowns is almost negligible."

True.

Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

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