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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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(Sunday, October 16)
The Only Difference between whining and winning is an �h�,�n� and work.
For five days, the government did not act. Lives were lost," Farrakhan said at the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. "We charge America with criminal neglect."
A crowd of thousands cheered as dozens of prominent speakers -- academics, activists, artists and media pundits -- spoke, recited poetry and sang songs in the 12-hour program on the National Mall.
I think the President of the United States is an asshat. I think FEMA is severely short of good management and was multiple days late in helping out Katrina victims, and in some cases seems like a waste of tax payer dollars. I think our President likes to hand out no-bid contracts to friends of the administration.
But..
If you can gather 10k people to whine about it in Washington DC, why not gather 10k people to help rebuild down in New Orleans in New Orleans. Since when is it more productive to go to D.C. stand at the steps and bitch about it, rather than organizing a movement to help rebuild?
It seems to me that some people want something to whine about more than they want to find a solution.
Don�t get me wrong, I bitch about this administration all the time on this site, but if I had the power to draw thousands of people to my cause to hear me speak, I think a much louder message would be heard by the media (which leads to DC in the end, by effecting public sentiment) if you were to gather thousands of people to work for a day to bring attention rather than give DC and the local Days Inn tourism dollars.
I know this has nothing to do with the Democratic party, but it is very similar to my qualms I have with them. They have the right �problem�, they just don�t seem to provide anything near the right answer. It always seems to be about �woe is me� or �how can they do this to u.s.? (pun/wordplay intended)� rather than �this is what they should be doing, and this is what we are pushing for, see how we are doing it, this is the way we think it should be�.
I really feel lost when it comes to political parties. I understand the need for partisan politics (I think that the 'Devil's Advocate' has saved Democracy as a form of Gov't many times becuase of partisan politics, and will continue to do so). But it really sucks when you can't relate to either all that well.
Crowds gather for Millions More Movement
Farrakhan: 'We charge America with criminal neglect'
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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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