I want to move my firefox sidebar to the right. Here's the instructions from mozillalinks:

You will need to open userChrome.css file located in your profile folder, or create a new one by renaming userChrome-example.css. Then add these lines:

/* Display the sidebar in opposite side */
#browser {
-moz-box-direction: reverse;
}
That sucks ( Read more... )

Collected from two people on my team.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz

Yeah, the video game is pretty bad, but what about the movie? Hmm...let's look at a review ( Read more... )

...are useless in a dynamically typed language I think. It just occurred to me that depending on your name lookup mechanism, it's very very likely that there's no reason to ever make one of these things ( Read more... )

Wow...that was a pretty cool process. I've never been much of an ebay user (only have 8 items on my bid history) so I walked into this cold. Their UI, while cluttered, walked me through everything from categorizing my item and generating boiler-plate spec information (I was selling a printer) to helping me estimate shipping costs and evaluate ( Read more... )

class A(object):
def __init__(self):
self.__my_var = 'a'

class B(A):
def foo(self):
print self.__my_var

error:

AttributeError: 'B' object has no attribute '_B__my_var'You learn something new everyday. Apparently prefixing with __ in classes in python causes the interpreter to mangle the name. This makes a "private" variable. ( Read more... )

F***ING DEEP FUNCTION CHAINS! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

Did a google image search for cats, and this was link #1:

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/food/cats.jpg

Main reaction: That's a cat?

Last month, htang and I took a course of financial planning from a local financial planning company. They're offering it again in June, BTW. I highly recommend it for anyone who's doesn't currently have a good feel for how to get from here to retirement.
The course discussed things such as how to leverage insurance to transfer risk, how bonds work, ( Read more... )

It's one of the most schizophrenic languages I've used to date. With Java, it's be consistent everywhere, and try to avoid extra language features. With C++, it's be compatible with C and make any special features optional such that if you don't use them, you don't get penalized for their existence. With C, it's assume everyone really just wants ( Read more... )