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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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(Tuesday, June 28)
Google's Earth
This is the most amazing piece of software ever produced. Not because of the code, but because of the framework that it lays down for millions of other things.
I will remember this day for the rest of my life. I know that sounds like an over statement, but I really will. I think that this is a pivotal day for technology and humanity because of today's release of Google Earth. Everyone was impressed with maps (I was) everyone loves Google local's data integration. But today, it covers earth. This app is HUGE step for everyone. Way bigger than people realize I think. A company (an information company/an advertising company) can literally show you most things on the planet we live in. We have been able to catalog data into on object. The highest object in the hierarchy of human information. Earth. (I don't need directions to Saturn). I really don't know how to state in words what an important accomplishment for humanity this is (I honestly believe it is). Someone has cataloged and organized a table that now millions of other ideas can be set down on. Think about the integration of live data from all over the world. Everyone has always been connected to the internet, but the live data portion, that part that we all don't know about (that has been easier to find lately). I call it 'the nothing' we now have the tool in an easy to use graphic format to find all the parts of the 'The Nothing' at any given time, in something a child can use. In something (that as long as we are connected) can be put in cars, can be put on watches, in eye glasses. THIS IS A MONUMENTAL THING PEOPLE! There is a framework for real time data acquisition for the normal human. That goes beyond the realm of search and the internet. I am just blown away. Seriously floored. Remember June 28th, 2005.
Go download Earth:
Google Earth - Home
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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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