Interesting Links for 13-04-2013

• Margaret Thatcher Wizard of Oz track sparks chart debate
  (tags: music funny margaretthatcher )
• Introducing MigCoin (I giggled)
  (tags: funny bitcoin )
• Edinburgh gets more hybrid buses
  (tags: edinburgh environment transport electricity )
• Why you won't be using magnetic coils to use launch spaceships any time soon.
  (tags: technology magnets spaceflight )
• How to improve your story (for all my writer friends)
  (tags: stories writing lgbt )
• Girl Gamer Tells Guy to Shove His ‘Fake Geek Girl’ Crap In the Most Epic Way Imaginable
  (tags: sexism gaming geekery )
• The new collective noun is "a jenga of cocks".
  (tags: nsfw cgi funny video )
• Giant steel Dragon Bridge in Vietnam breathes fire
  (tags: dragons vietnam architecture viaNeilRodger )
• Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars
  (tags: polls people )
• The Worst TARDIS Cake EVAR
  (tags: cake funny drwho )
• Welfare Spending Breakdown
  (tags: uk welfare )
• Why don't cell phones have a dialtone?
  (tags: phones )
• Some stunning architecture
  (tags: architecture )
• Island in lakes in islands in lakes.
  (tags: geography )
• We used to sleep twice each night
  (tags: sleep )
• Can someone explain why you'd want to buy toast on the internet?
  (tags: food wtf internet )
• This makes me want a Mass Effect anime series.
  (tags: MassEffect anime )
• It's dangerous to time-travel alone. Take The Doctor with you.
  (tags: viaJennieRigg funny drwho )

Pragmatism versus Idealism: Shopping Cart Edition

On the one hand, I hate having to put a pound in a slot to get access to a shopping cart at the local supermarket, even if I do get it back when I'm done. It smacks of mistrust, and treating customers like children.

On the other hand, I never used to be able to find a cart, and since they did it there are always ones sitting waiting to be used.

Just used "Git filter-branch" for the first time.

Realised I had a whole folder of generated files that were part of the repository, and managed to work out how to remove them (this guide was very helpful). It was a tad nerve-wracking, but all seems to have come together ok.

Next up - working out how to use Maven to pull in dependencies at build time, so that I can remove _them_ from the repository as well, and not be including multiple versions of compiled jar files (Size of my code: 43KB. Size of included libraries 50.8MB).