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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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(Thursday, November 17)
LOST: Season 2 Episode 7
A few things noted from this weeks show (which I belive ranks only 2nd as the best Lost episode of this season, only behind Episode 1 with the workout opening):
* this Episode really made Anna Lucia's character less of a biatch.
* Mr. Eko is the man. He is the Locke of the tail enders. Sets up conflict: Who is right, the man who puts faith in God, or the man who puts faith in the Island / Fate? (Only Bob Marley knows).
* I called the Ethan insertion early in the episode, but I agreed with Anna Lucia that it was the dude, who died not Goodwin.
* I called the radio transmition from season 1. Knew it was comming.
* I don't understand the symbolism of the Bible (I think Mr. Eko is Muslim). Nor do I understand the Glass Eye. It has to mean something. It played a big part.
* The Shrink chick on the tailenders is hot, educated and is blonde. I bet she hooks up with Jack.
* Teddy Bear kids are freakin me out. How did the jumpsuit girl (islander that anna lucia killed) get a US ARMY Pocket Knife?
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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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