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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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(Saturday, August 20)
4 More Years! 4 More Years!
"The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq � well over 100,000 � for four more years, the Army�s top general said Saturday."
So I guess this is what all the GOP delegates meant when they were chanting "4 More Years!" at the GOP convention before the 2004 election?
You have got to be kidding me. Lets see here:
Right before the election I heard cost until then for the war in Iraq (not Afghanistan) was $151b, with another $67b already signed off, just not spent. Since then, I heard GW had a request for another $87b for this year. So lets assume for the next 4 years GW signs off at $50b per year (being nice). So for the total war cost in Iraq (if we DID leave in 2008) is right at around 1/2 a trillion dollars ($500b).
So lets assume we wanted to spend $100,000 per soldier on education instead of sending them to war in Iraq. So, that means we could send 5 million of our soldiers into a 4 year degree program at a public university? Seeing as though we only have 1.2 million in the reserves (per 2002) that seems like we could send most all of them to a 4 year degree. With all those people with 4 year degrees it is my guess that we could come up with a solution for mitigating our foreign oil dependency. Actually, I am sure the answer already exists.
I think it is time for America to start asking the Bush administration where all *our* money has gone, and what good has it done us? What good has it done certain companies? This war has moved a MASSIVE amount of money from the public tax payers coffers to private companies. I could sit here all day and write about how wrong we were going to this war, but that time has passed, we are there now. What is done is done. Is this really going to take 4 more years of over 100,000 American soldiers away from their families for multiple months out of the year? Is it really hard to grasp why the army is having a hard time trying to fill those spots?
I am still waiting for my post-9/11-Bush-2nd-term-administered-growing-economy prize in my mailbox. Do you think it might have gone to a Chinese address by mistake?
Army planning for four more years in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
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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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