Absolute vs relative times in applications

[m] ok
[m] and do you thing relative time is more useful then absolute one?
[m] or vice versa?
[m] the other one will be on tooltip
[rgrau] day/time for me is the most valuable   
[rgrau] batch processes are at 4:00
[k] I think relative time is more useful if it refreshes automatically
[rgrau] not 8 hours ago
[k] like, each 10 seconds
[m] it refreshes automatically
[k] then yes
[rgrau] but you loose track
[rgrau] because you have to synch every time  
[m] for me relative is for quick check
[m] absolute for serious things
[rgrau] at any scale, I know where am I
[rgrau] (tm)
[m] :D
[m] pfff
[m] because it is not 'ago'
[rgrau] absolute time is the way
[rgrau] if it's shorter 
[rgrau] (tm)
[rgrau] in the app logs, if you have to compare , there's absolute date
[rgrau] and absolute dates do not rely in the global state of the world
[rgrau] it's immutable
[rgrau] so better
[rgrau] (and I mean it (tm))

What's your take?

a neat ruby idiom

[rgrau] guys, I just learned a new idiom  
[rgrau] (@foo ||= []) << bar  
[michal] :)  
[rgrau] It's not crystal clear, but I like it  
[rgrau] my perl background damaged my brain beyond repair
[jakub] rgrau: idiom or idiot?
[rgrau] you pick
[jakub] ok, done
[rgrau] I know which one you picked  
[jakub] u r smart
[rgrau] u idiom
[rgrau] that log goes to my blog inside ruby section

emacs taking to much memory?

[p1] my emacs takes up more memory than firefox, hm

[rgrau] open more firefox tabs

[p3] install more extensions

I love #emacs help style :)

HTTP status codes explained in IRC

*p1 is sending GET request since 2001
[p1] and still no response
[p2] 422
[p3] ETOOLONGTIMEOUT
[p3] malformed bitch
[p3] ah no, unprocessable
[p1] i don't do that sick stuff
[p3] unprocessable bitch
[p1] girls quite often reply with 403
[p1] if it doesn't help, they go 404
[p1] some even try 300 to their friend which is very pathetic
[p3] trying to DDOS

VPNs explained in IRC

[p1] meth. I've told you
[p2] lovely
[p2] it's like a VPN
[p2] you're comunicating where others just see noise
[p3] lol
[p3] that's a great quote
[p2] the guys from the other side of the vpn told it to me

Race conditions explained in IRC.

[j] morning
[j] que hora es?
[m] 8
[t] +1
[j] 9
[rgrau] 9
[t] ah ah
[rgrau] oh, racecondition

"Chrome does UDP sockets" joke

Opening a new section, here's the first post in the new section irclog, where I'll just copypaste remarkable pearls that appear in one or other channel I'm usually logged. Be prepared for geek jokes. I can't promise to be involved in all :) And here's the first. with my 3scale coworkers

<a> http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/chrome-tcp-udp "Chrome supports TCP & UDP Sockets"
<a> you can do udp jokes in chrome now
<rgrau> I didn't get it
<a> I don't care
<rgrau> great!