Dear Yahoo,
- You ask for too much of my time in order to sign up for flickr.
- I just want to get on flickr, not sign up for a yahoo email
- I DO NOT want a yahoo email address EVER. I will not check it and it will just waste your disk space, so why are you forcing me to register one?
- I entered my actual postcode (no fakes) and apparently I am not located in Australia. Well done form validation team.
- If there are rules governing usernames, PLEASE STATE THEM so I can try to pick a name that is appropriate and not just say that I can have my name with 96 or 52 tacked on the end. I am certain that no-one has registered "zbergdfsgrcxfeaerfsd@yahoo.com" and yet I cannot use it.
- Let me make my own secret question. I have so many "favourite musicians".
- I entered a 10 character password of complete gibberish (like "C$buX;#8Q4") and apparently my password is both very weak and contains my username.
I just wanted to create a flickr account and upload some photos. I like to think that I do not give up easily, but I felt that giving up was the appropriate response to that signup form. If you need to see how signups should be done, look at tumblr.
[no] thanks,
jeremy
It turns out that my copy of avr-gcc fails with this code:
switch (rx_byte) {
case 'U':
int i;
break;
}
Apparently, gcc has a bug that stops you putting a declaration directly after a label. Simple workaround:
switch (rx_byte) {
case 'U': ;
int i;
break;
}
Ugh, I want my hour back.
Someone needs to do something about the wysiwyg editor in wordpress. It mangles all my formatting and code unless I constantly switch back and forth between HTML and visual view. I guess it's HTML posts only from now on.
As of yesterday, the only operating system installed on my desktop is ubuntu 8.10. Linux has really come a long way since I first used Red Hat 3 on a 200mhz Pentium I with 64mb of ram and a Voodoo 2.
I just started uni and am having a blast. ELEC1000 is crazy hard though.
It feels great to knock down that last bug, especially in an embedded system. The bgs-buggies Speed Beast MKII board is finally complete! Now to finish the wxPython gui.
I can honestly say that this is the first drink I have ever laughed at. I just had to have them all.
They don't taste half bad either.
Usually I can pick up a programming language in a night, but it has been almost a week now and objective c is still messing around with me. It seems like all the authors of other mainstream languages have tried to learn from eachothers' work whereas Apple has pulled its typical "we do things Our Way™" stunt. Don't get me wrong, Interface Builder is flipping awesome, but I find myself missing the friendly syntax of python or c.
Back to reading more docs I guess.
Git is pretty cool. It means I can work on code with my laptop offline and then commit the changes to the master when I get home. Check out the GitHub repo for bgs-buggies.
