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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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(Wednesday, June 22)
$50 for 15 gallons.
If oil hits $3 a gallon, people will demand that the government focus on domestic problems and the economy.
It will be a sublime irony if Bush's popularity slumps because of oil prices and not because of the Iraq war, since the Iraq war was an attempt to keep cheap oil flowing if the Saudi supply was in danger.
But because other reasons were used to galvanize support for the Iraq war the government is now in a curious position of having to continue to fudge the WMD issue and not reap the benefits of the emerging reality.
I agree with Galbraith and I like how he isn't sugar coating it. I am a firm believer that not only will be see $3 per gallon during Bush's 2nd term, but I think we will see $3.50 if not $4.00 before 2008. I do agree that their will not be a shift in perspective from foreign problems (Iraq, which were created by the GW administrations failure to plan and a failure to find what we were told was over there) to domestic ones (economy IS looking up, but Oil is going to enslave the average American) until it starts to hit people in their pocketbooks. It stinks that it has to come to that for people to realize what is going on and how much GW f'd this thing up, but I for one will actually enjoy $3 and $4 gas just so people start paying more attention to domestic problems, and see that Iraq was one major waste of money. Lots and lots money. That somehow has lined the coffers of a lot of companies who are profiting from the war. About 2 or 3 weeks ago I was on an email chain with some friends and it was funny how a lot of the Bush supporters on the chain were quick to defend Bush that he isn't over in Iraq to steal oil, that he has not taken a single barrel. I still don't know if people understand that this war was not about commercial profiting on Iraqi oil. (Although that may have been the plan at some point, it hasn't formalized) This war made money off commercial profiting of certain U.S. business related to war at the expense of U.S. tax dollars and U.S. tax payers. It was all a big funnel movement of money from normal U.S. citizens (via Tax dollars) to large corporations (for war spending). Its not about taking from them, its about taking from us.
David Galbraith
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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