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Review: Sherlock (...) Read More... 2010-07-28 @073

Playing with Objective C on Debian I felt like playing with Linux a bit, so I went and installed Debian on a partition. Apart from a few failed attempts to install it on an external drive (something which works fine with MacOS X, so I was spoiled) and a bit of confusion when it asked me for my drive name (how would I know a cryptic character combination like hdb4? And I selected that drive in your UI before, can't you let me use that same selector again?), it went pretty smooth. (...) Read More... 2010-05-08 @456

Fruit vs. Obst In English, there is a very common confusion among students: (...) Read More... 2010-05-08 @439

Mixed-language ambiguity The German verb "backen" means "to bake". Which of the two companies below, do you think, sells things for your back, and which one for baking? (...) Read More... 2010-04-15 @994

Uli's 12:07 AM Law If your Objective-C++ code keeps crashing with an invalid instruction exception Your mental diarrhea made you forget to declare a method that takes C++ object by value. Since undeclared methods get a signature of -(id)methodName: ... and you can't pass a C++ object through such a variadic argument list, you get what you deserve. Read More... 2010-04-12 @881