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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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Mobile PC
Slower, anyway. Among the 10 systems, SP2 resulted in a performance hit of 3 to 22 percent on eight of the 10 machines. Granted, two saw small performance increases, but the average decrease in performance was a whopping 9 percent. (All tests are based on Sysmark 2002's Business Productivity test.)
aka, we are going to test only one small spec of jobs that a laptop computer can do so we can whine about MS some more...Don't get me wrong SP2 is a craptastic problem solver at best (I recommend 3rd party Virus check/Firewall/Ad/spyware killer) but I dont understand how one small subset of benchmarks could determine the whole of what people do on a laptop.
Mobile PC
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This is white supremacy posing as appreciation. Neither of these verdicts on hip is strong enough to cancel the other out. Hip serves both functions: it is an ennobling force that covers for ignominy.
Gimmie a Fucking Break...
Only a small fraction of the population at any time lives in full commitment to hip; for most of us, work, school, family, rehab or the alarm clock gets in the way.
the use of the word 'rehab' in that sentence just depleted every small instance of similarity you ever had with any Newsweek reader...
Herman Melville, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Big Daddy Kane are the fierce soloists, blowing their lives into mad rhythm. Walt Whitman, Raymond Chandler, Dizzy Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg and KRS-One are the theoreticians and explainers, often playing sidekick to their enigmatic brethren. Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Mezz Mezzrow, Carl Van Vechten, Elvis and Eminem are the white boys who stole the blues, or at least that is one way of looking at them.
Sew your rap band name drops into the storyline all you want still doent admonish them the rights you afford to the tru "Hip"sters like Dizzy and The King. Doesn't work man. Is Newsweek losing minority subscriptions, whats up with this piece?
"Hip"
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(Friday, September 24)
Flippy Floppy (Said in Talking Heads Voice)
I was think about how funny it was that people label Kerry a Flip Flopper because he supported the war Iraq before the war but in hindsight does not support it now. Also if you ask him (and basically anyone in the world) if Iraq is better today because of Sadaam not being in power, then he would answer yes. Does that indicate that he thinks the war was necessary, I do not think so. I can draw many parallels with him in the fact that I too thought the war was necessary before the invasion and now that the primary reason we went their (for WMD) which was presented by GW to the American people as the reason and to the world (via the UN) as the reason, gave me reassurance that it was the correct thing to do. Alas after all this time without one WMD, I can agree with Kerry that it was failed reasoning. I am glad we got Sadaam (I wish they would just kill him, fair trial be damned, we have disregarded world/UN "rules" thus far, why start now?) but the main reason we went to war has proved untrue. I do not think that it was a "lie" but I do think that it was a wrong decision. But alas because of my support before the war, and because of my despair about it now , along with Kerry I should be labeled a flip flopper. (If any man throughout history has ever come to the conclusion that one of his decisions made with the best possible information at a given time, turns our to be false, then they too can be labeled flip floppers) So I guess I am a Flip Flopper also. So what is better than having 1 Flip Flopper run for President? How about 2! Some of GW's transgressions and re-admitions in change of decision over the past 4:
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03/2002 Bush Implements Steel Import Tariffs. Got Flak about it some here, but in all it helped the US steel makers.
12/2003 Bush recants tariffs from international trade pressure.
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10/2000 Bush ridicules Gore's Tax Credit on Hybrid Cars citing no one owns them an that it is very "targeted" relief
1/2003 SoU speech he promises X billion dollars in research (Im keeping my fingers crossed it will get there, i mean I would think it would be hard to promise a lot of money to an industry that would destroy the industry that you and your family prosper on)
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2000 Bush says Gay Marriage is a "States Issue" and not an interest of Nat'l Govt
02/2004 Bush promotes a Constitutional Amendment on it
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3/2003 Bush says will seek UN Vote on Going to Far With Iraq
3/2003 Bush goes to war without seeking UN Vote.
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1/2004 Bush doesn�t want a Independent Bipartisan Commision on Sadaam's WMD
2/2004 Bush Appoints 9 dudes to bipartisan Commission on Sadaam's WMD
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11/2002 Bush is opposed to independent 9/11 commission
11/2002 Bush appoints independent 9/11 commission (to be fair on this one I think it was more of a relent, than a flip flop imho)
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3/2004 In the above, Bush says he will only sit for 1 hour with commission.
3/2004 Ok, ok, No time limit. (another relent?)
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10/2001 After 9/11 Bush doesn�t want a Homeland Security Cabinet.
3/2003 Super Faxing Hero Tom Ridge creates the league of superheroes known as HS.
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1/2001 Ashcroft says Bush will support Assault Weapons Ban Extension
9/2004 Assault Weapons Band is terminated.
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The Glaring One for me:
Pre 9/11 Bush talking about Clinton:
"I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation-building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."
Post 9/11 We are rebuilding 2 nations.
The above are not necessarily there to reflect bad on GW. I think GW made good decisions on a lot of these and has very good points on others. But everyone yammers on about Flip Flopping Kerry and how he said one thing 20 years ago and he can't really believe that (one could ask where GW was 20 years ago [Drugs Alcohol]) but I won't go that far because i don't think it is relevant. My point is this: People make better decision in both hindsight, and when they have better information.
I have not decided if I am voting for Kerry or not, but from someone who doesn�t really support either candidate it is funny how hypocritical some Republicans are.
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kozoru
Will "Kozoru-ing" become a verb like "Google-ing"
kozoru
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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Bush by the Numbers)
Interesting Numbers, take with a grain of salt though,
1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida.
104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
101 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile defence.
65 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass destruction.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
73 Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in his three State of the Union addresses.
83 Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
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As a progrmamer I think these are by far, VERY technically feasable, but I also think that this is probably an easy way for people to explain thier loss of money in online poker. The way I look at online poker is this: I consider my self a fair poker player I can decently read people and compute statistics in my head, enough to win about 30% of what I start with usually. Now I imagine myself going into a casino in vegas and playing against people i don't know. That limits me and bring be down (in my opinion) 50% of my playing value. Now imagine I am in vegas and the dealer shows all cards to the pit boss and everyone behind him (dealer/computer knows its cards) I have no clue who in in cohuits with the dealer about who knows what cards are on the table. Hence online poker. I don't think I would ever play it.
this is the first time i have used cohuits in a blog entry.
Are poker �bots� raking online pots?
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bobafred: home
One of my favorite movies of the past couple years, Donnie Darko (fear the rabbi, to make scarier add a 'T') I guess came out a few years ago, but they decided to make an extended edition/Director's Cut. Turns out the Freddog got to a screening of it a few days ago... Read his post here.
bobafred: home
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AP: Strange News
"However, authorities were investigating the captain of the Italian ship 'Grand America,' which had overtaken another ship before it entered the harbor - a maneuver that brought it close to the restaurant, police said."
The name of the ship makes me laugh. Not becuase I don't think America is grand, (I do and more) but it is funny that and Italian vessel would call itself that. Your not gonna find a 'Superb Itally' here in the US I don't think.
AP: Strange News:
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(Thursday, September 16)
8bitDandD
"I'm getting drunk, are there girls there?"
For all the D&D'ers......By Far Funniest thing of the day.
8bitDandD
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(Wednesday, September 15)
Eric's Photo Gallery :: 9.15.2004
Updated my photoalbum tonight. There are 2 new sets of pics. First is from last weekend's UGA Vs SC game which we had everyone over to watch at our place. Second set is from my reef tnak, I added three new corals today. n doing this I also discovered I had lost a fish (my oldest and dearest clown fish). Sux.
UGA VS SC Set
Eric's Photo Gallery :: 9.15.2004
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My advice is to throw beads at it. The Cloud over Miami is what Meterlogists call a 'HurricanFartRippleus Culmbus'. A very fast moving ejection type cloud.
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NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News
Let's Keep those jobs in the U.S.....
Leading Economic Indicators
McDonald's franchisees in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Brainerd, Minn., and Norwood, Mass., recently began outsourcing their drive-thru order-taking to a call center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Thus, a Big Mac order shouted into a microphone in Missouri gets typed into a computer in Colorado (and a digital photograph of the customer's car is taken in order to reduce errors) and then clicked back to the originating restaurant's kitchen, which has the order ready in less time (30 seconds less, on average, with fewer errors) than the average McDonald's takes. [International Herald Tribune-New York Times, 7-19-04]
NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News
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(Tuesday, September 14)
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I won't say who passed this one to me (may damage his Rep Rep) but man this is quite possibly the most beautiful works of media I have ever seen. It could not get any better.
Superb Commercial
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MSNBC - 20 Iraqis killed in U.S. strike on Fallujah
I do not agree with the war on Iraq. Anyone who reads my blog knows this. I support our troops and the killing of anyone who raises a weapon at them (even in Iraq) . But this is in the beyond for me.
Naim Tubasi, chief of the Palestinian journalists� union, accused the United States of deliberately killing reporters in Iraq to �block the truth� from reaching the rest of the world.
No offense Niam but let me let you in on a little secret. No one in America watches Al Jazera. I honestly do belive that we will and do kill innocenets in war. I also do not believe we do it intentonally. One number is casualties of war, and another is deaths from war. In saying that I also believe that American Doctrine is well rooted in the fact that wars should only be begun/ended by us when we are attacked first. If the ability for a preemtive strike on a country that is planning war with weapons that would directly kill Americans then I might be partial to a preemtive strike. But alas in Iraq we have had neither and were brought to war by a mistake. We have killed many innocents (not intentionally) by mistake. It amazes me the number of people who will not admit this. WE MADE A MISTAKE BY INVADING IRAQ! Looks at what we have done. What we just did in the last 2 years, has exponetially helped Al-Q's cause of the building of fundamental calphatic extremist culture by killing the normal Iraqi population (Like all us non-military). In hindsight, we have not helped forward American values to other countries at all. (And to boot it cost us of 40 billion and has stagnated our economy). Be sure to thank your President for it by not voting for him. I personally don't care who you vote for just not GW. Also be wary of that other big candidate who wants to limit what guns you can buy, but doesnt want to do anything about anyone else but legal gun owners getting them. My 62 cents.
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MSNBC - 20 Iraqis killed in U.S. strike on Fallujah
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