Holden's Blog

Please leave my github repositories, and any repos...

2011-08-29T15:54:51.573-07:00

Please leave my github repositories, and any repos I care about, alone. I don't want your bot bothering me with garbage. If I get a pull request from a bot like this, you bet it would be reported to github as spam...

The code its self is very simple (albeit not ve...

2011-08-29T13:12:51.171-07:00
The code its self is very simple (albeit not very good, it was written after I got back from clubbing @ JWZ’s club [DNA lounge]). There is something about a lack of sleep which makes perl code and regexs seem like a good idea.

oh the irony....

I have a project hosted at github to find misspell...

2011-08-29T12:15:32.405-07:00
I have a project hosted at github to find misspellings on source code.

It's reported to successfully work on large projects like the Linux kernel, FreeBSD, oFono, ConnMan etc. It uses its own database for common misspelled words (based on the one found on wikipedia). The first time it was used for the Linux Kernel, it generated a patch of thousands of lines, which was accepted by Linus.

I wonder if you could use it to correct also the source code in github projects instead of only the README files. Here it is:
https://github.com/lucasdemarchi/codespell

This was great, thanks!

2011-08-29T09:11:30.311-07:00
This was great, thanks!

"conical -> canonical?" That's r...

2011-08-29T05:06:18.059-07:00
"conical -> canonical?"

That's really rather ionic!

Somehow similar to one of my projects: Bloki - htt...

2011-08-29T04:47:42.257-07:00
Somehow similar to one of my projects: Bloki - http://bloki.tomtasche.at/ :)

Let's fix all those nasty misspellings! ;)

Have a great day
Tom

"agument" => "augument" .....

2011-08-29T00:27:04.248-07:00
"agument" => "augument"

...What's augument?

conical -> canonical?

2011-08-28T21:27:22.728-07:00
conical -> canonical?

By "its self" I think he means that his ...

2011-08-28T20:32:51.449-07:00
By "its self" I think he means that his Perl code is self aware.

Your very last sentence: "In the longer term ...

2011-08-28T19:58:06.377-07:00
Your very last sentence: "In the longer term I think it would be awesome to attempt detect really simple bugs in actual code (things like memcpy(dest,0,0))."

It would be cool to run llvm clang over all C/Obj-C/C++ projects and use its diagnostic abilities to generate a patch that applies "fix-it hints". See http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html

You wrote: "The code its self is very simple...

2011-08-28T18:29:19.308-07:00
You wrote:

"The code its self is very simple..."

What would your automatic spelling correction bot fix in this sentence fragment?

Very nice, but I think you should change the websi...

2011-08-28T17:25:17.868-07:00
Very nice, but I think you should change the website address on holdensmagicalunicorn's github account to point to an explanation about the bot (such as this blog post).

Ha! I have made something similar, although I have...

2011-08-28T17:23:17.583-07:00
Ha! I have made something similar, although I haven't announced it yet:

https://github.com/Miserlou/WhitespaceBot

Great minds? :)

Ha! I have made something similar, although I have...

2011-08-28T17:22:47.844-07:00
Ha! I have made something similar, although I haven't announced it yet.

https://github.com/Miserlou/WhitespaceBot

Great minds? :)

@Peter: I'm glad you found the patch useful :)...

2011-08-28T15:57:29.768-07:00
@Peter: I'm glad you found the patch useful :) If you have any suggestions on how to improve it that would be ++awesome :D

saw someone i never heard of before fix spelling i...

2011-08-28T15:54:32.313-07:00
saw someone i never heard of before fix spelling in one of my OS projects
googled a bit arround, and found this post - before that i wasn't sure if that was a bot or some english teacher gone mad..

thanks for the patches your tool created!

Dude. Pigs cant fly though.

2011-06-03T12:12:49.783-07:00
Dude. Pigs cant fly though.

Here it is 2011 and it would be unusual to find an...

2011-05-09T17:49:21.766-07:00
Here it is 2011 and it would be unusual to find any business that requires the use of a D&B number as a condition of extending credit.

For many years D&B has been the most widely known business credit reporting agency, but with a cost of $100 to run what D&B calls a "BIR" or Business Industry Report they lost a lot of ground in the industry.

Banks, suppliers, and business of all size have been using a report called the NACM report which can only be established by using companies that report your business payment habits and by you paying your bills promptly. For a sample report you can look at http://www.sacm.us.com/business-credit-reports

I didn't run the spell check, hope Peter is still monitoring the site and can do that for me.

Very impressive stuff. thanks for sharing

2011-02-15T05:15:08.107-08:00
Very impressive stuff. thanks for sharing

I think that outsourcing would be a smart business...

2010-06-02T19:24:06.042-07:00
I think that outsourcing would be a smart business strategy for small businesses. They may not have enough finances required to do their business process, and it is important for them to focus their attention to their core competencies in order to help their business grow. Outsourcing allows them to do just that.

Pong ?

2010-04-28T02:46:45.577-07:00
Pong ?

wtf what the hell is wronge with you all this cove...

2010-04-05T18:31:06.550-07:00
wtf what the hell is wronge with you all
this coversation is so going on failblog.com
EPIC WIN

omg. whores, all of you. go die somewhere.... af...

2010-03-17T20:07:27.270-07:00
omg. whores, all of you. go die somewhere.... after you kill me slowly and painfully :)

Nice story as for me. It would be great to read so...

2010-01-05T06:34:35.235-08:00
Nice story as for me. It would be great to read something more concerning that theme. The only thing I would like to see here is some pics of such gadgets as gps jammer.

Holden, I know very little about how IMAP works, ...

2009-12-20T05:48:28.386-08:00
Holden,

I know very little about how IMAP works, but doesn't the Zimbra setup described here -- as well as Bijan's GUID command hack -- end up sending your password in the clear (port 143)?

I'm very keen to get TB 3 set up to work with Yahoo mail over IMAP, but cleartext passwords would be a showstopper.

Any enlightenment would be very appreciated.

TIA,

HJ