January 2009
2 posts
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I was writing some hints for a code exercise in _RubyCocoa_. I wanted to tell them that the pasteboard (clipboard) would contain only filenames. So the code should ask for filenames from the pasteboard. It wouldn’t have to worry about things like URLs, because those couldn’t be present.
Which made me wonder: what *if* someone tried to drag a URL into the control I was building? What...
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Take a group of piglets, put them someplace. They will fight furiously to establish dominance. Move all the same pigs to a new place. They will fight furiously to establish dominance. Repeat ad infinitum.
Pigs are used in medicine as a model for human cardiology and digestion. (That is, experimental results for pigs can be used to predict effects on humans.) So when Dawn told me about pig...