Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:49:50 GMT | no comments
as usual, good news does not come alone.
But today is a great news, built in Quebec, The Zenn is the first 100% electric car.
The weird part of the story is that the canadian government won't let it hit the shelves in Canada.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:47:09 GMT | no comments
please watch this 2 hours movie.
and comment below about what WE can do.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:13:16 GMT | 2 comments
This movie just came out yesterday, strange coincidence I was passing by the theater. This is pure Chef-d'oeuvre. I wish I could have understood more, but what I could understand was enough to make me learn enough about the story.
It's fully japanese movie, but has been produced by Clint Eastwood. So, it got this final hollywood touch. Fortunately without breaking the whole thing. Like Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) was way too much Holliwoodize. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Is excellent and tells us a 4-6 months story with a 36 days attack. An attack the US had planned to succeed in 5 days. On a off-topic note, it really seems the story is repeating itself when I heard yesterday Bush says that had not succeed as fast as they has planned. I'm not too sure what he believes he succeeded there. but as I said. I'm off-topic.
So the US was planning to get on Iwo Jima island to build a base and attack Japan's main island. Japan was already week at this moment, so US thought it would take only 5 days. this movies is so rough. and teach you so much about Japanese culture. It is very excellent.
Now I really want to watch Flags of Our Fathers (2006). Its "Letters from Iwo Jima"'s little sister. Basically, Clint Eastwood made two movies, one with the Japanese view and the other one about the US view. it's gotta be a Hit as well.
Wait no longer. Go Watch it.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:35:31 GMT | no comments
So I am not gonna talk for 5 pages long about what is dangerous, good, bad or not about our new Big Brothers. But recently I have decided to be happy and to make people around me as happy as possible. And that means taking on services that makes my life easier for me and the people around me.
So that includes
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:14:40 GMT | 1 comment
Alors, j'écoutais la télévision il y a de ça quelques jours. Ils avaient un débat plutôt chaud incluant une trentaine de personne je dirais. Le type d'émission que j'avais déjà vu assez regulièrement au Québec.
C'est dommage que je ne pouvais pas tout comprendre. Le vocabulaire étant compliqué et le Tempo un peu difficile à suivre. Cela dit, le débat est demeuré des plus intérressants. L'expression des gens en dis beaucoup sur leur opinion et les différents niveau d'intensité que les gens emploie. Sur un plan communicatif, on en apprends énormément à regarder un débat comme celui-ci.
Mais encore plus intéressants, était les sujets. J'ai pris connaissances des deux premier sujets qui ont été traité. Cliquez le titre de cette article pour lire la suite de l'article.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:09:35 GMT | no comments
Is this art? what does it makes you think? comment below
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:00 GMT | no comments
So I am working on my computer next to my girlfriend. From time to time she tells me "look". And there is this series of celebrities with big boobs on her screen. So I say "that's it, my girlfriend is looking at boobs on the internet". I thought "I really gotta blog about it." and she reply. "No, no, I'm looking at who got plastic surgery".
hahahhahaha, ain't it funny? where is the difference come on. when she told me that, I was really convinced I needed to share it with the world.
come on readers, how many of you have a girlfriend looking at boobs on the internet, hiding behind fashion's sakes?
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:39:00 GMT | 1 comment
diff -r admin-languages/english/password_forgotten.php ../worldshop/admin/includes/languages/english/password_forgotten.php
20c20
< // $Id: password_forgotten.php 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $
---
> // $Id: password_forgotten.php 4347 2006-09-02 19:02:26Z drbyte $
28,29c28,29
< define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Nice try mate :-P
');
< define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'Success: A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
---
> define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Go away gooberbrain :-P
');
> define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
This is a diff between an english language file from zencart 1.3 to 1.3.5
Big question is, how many zencart user wants to call their customers "mate" or better "gooberbrain" when they enter a wrong password.
god damn
maybe even funnier, I was looking for a Japanese language pack on their forum. The files are available through a SVN repository. but the guy is too stupid to realize the files can be fetch using svn. and propose publicaly to everyone to download every single files by hand.. Next another very brave guy went and download them all and offer us a zip of his patient work. So kind of him.... Did I ever mention when do I think of patient program who does not care going the long way and not do thing properly. well its another subject I guess.
Later the first guy propose some windows software to downthemall
in five pages of forum thread nobody ever realize this was a SVN repository.
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/includes/languages/ front-store-languages svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/admin/includes/languages/ admin-languages
Conclusion? go ahead, get yourself a shopping cart from one of those expert. They definitely have the patience to get the job done.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:33:00 GMT | no comments
I remember about 2 years ago I was reading an article about bonus and rewards in a company. And how this is the worst management idea ever. As it might push your people in the butt for a bit, in the long term, you might lose core element of your team. Why? because there is no difference between a Bonus and a Punishment. And as much as the winner is happy to go home with his bonus, everyone else feels punished as they did not received it. And this is BAD.
Of course in Japan, there are also companies with bonus system. No one escape to the temptation. but where is this interresting bit I found? In the language. shoubatsu (賞罰 / しょうばつ) in Japanese means both rewards and punishment. I found that very interresting that early in the conception of the language they thought of this concept as one single thing.
It remembers me also the verb kiku (聞く / きく) means both to hear/listen and to ask. How many people asks questions and actually never listen to the answer? How common is that. Well, if you ask for something you algo gotta listen. In Japanese this is again one single meaning. So in english, instead of saying "May I ask you something?" You could say instead "May I listen something from you?" Which might sound a bit weird but should in fact communicate better more what you are about to do.
just thought It might be interresting to share.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:14:00 GMT | no comments
As some of you might already know, Japan has been hit by a typhoon this weekend. The typhoon travelled from east to west on the pacific ocean, hit kyushu, the southern most main japanese island (ie: excluding okinawa), causing a train to fall on the side and killing three people. Then it travelled north into Japan see and stayed away enough from Japan to not cause anymore trouble. but how strong was the wind, crazy. definitely my first time watching something like this. I don't know how much time I spent looking through the window at the wind and the clouds going. You know sometimes you can see clouds moving and you can predict in which directions they are going? well, that night you definitely did not need to be a psychik. The clouds were going FAST. it was very impressive.
later on in the weekend we started installing poles on top of furnitures. the pole goes from the top of the furniture and touch the ceil. It prevents furniture from falling down during earthquakes. never saw one of those either before. clearly, Japan as way more natural catastrophe than Canada. I know nobody likes it, but I'm excited to see everything.
And after seeing what Japan did over the past years to recover catastrophe, I think we should all get more of those, remember how week we are and how strong we need to hold on to each other.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:01:00 GMT | no comments
Your coming into a forum or an IRC channel, you ask a simple question, yet uncommon. and people are screaming. “Stop, Don’t do it!”, “it’s evil”, “these are bad programming practices, prove me you can’t do without”. And such, before you had time to say more than two lines.
But why is everyone trying to preach absolutely nothing without knowing a thing. They have no clue what I am working on. What would I do with this bit of information and what particular problem I’m trying to solve. but yet, they know it’s evil and I should not do it. Hell, I’m not even sure what I’m gonna do yet. I’m looking for different solutions. What exactly is evil? I have not thought of anything yet.
for people who know C and used to pointer basics have a quick look at the following example.
void foo(&var) {
var = 42;
}
x = 0;
printf("%d\n", x);
foo(x);
printf("%d\n", x);
I was simply asking if passing a variable by reference in such a way would also be possible in Ruby. I have been refered, among other things, to an excellent page documenting Ruby bindings. I am not sure yet if bindings is the only way to go in order to achieve something as simple as this. but what I do know, though: “ITS EVIL”...
actually, I knew Ruby bindings before. But I wanted to use something simpler, more embedded into the syntax. I thought hearing something different, more C-like that I could use. but getting actual help through all the flames was a challenge on its own. so it’s all I got.
yet, I’m not sure I’ll use it for my particular problem, for one, I was looking for something different and for two, well, its EVIL apprently. And god knows I don’t do EVIL ;)
I got another example, this one happen few months ago. I’m heading into the ruby channel again asking for a ruby+japanese related questions. no anwser, total silent. I figured nobody knows as they are almost all english and don’t deal with japanese stuff. but since Ruby programming language in born in Japan and the japanese community is quite active, I thought asking in Japanese. suddenly I got an answer.
the first one, in japanese was simply answering my question. politely and perfectly. the second one? just english screaming. “This is an english channel, talk in english, this is not a japanese or internation channel, stop, its EVIL.”
god, what the hell. you use computers and ruby you should at least appreciate the multi-cultural side the internet offers us. well, he was probably scared I was flaming about his grand-mother. what else could I think?
anyone has a decent explanation for such behavours? am I the one who is weird/wrong?
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:23:00 GMT | 6 comments
[ no need to say anything ]
