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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, January 19)
Good Morning Silicon Valley: What if we promise not to show the records to Karl Rove?
The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year for search records stored in its databases. The DOJ argues that the information it has requested, which includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period, is essential to its upcoming defense of the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act. Google has so far refused to comply with the subpoena, saying the release of such information would violate the privacy of its users. 'Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, told The Mercury News. '[We plan to fight the government's effort] 'vigorously.'' Here's hoping the company prevails. The release of such records sets a truly unsettling precedent.
I usually harp on the power of the big G on this website a lot. In all honesty if there was one search engine who I don't think would share my private search information with the government it would be Google. But in the whole scheme of search engine anonymity that really does not account for much. I personally think Google would and does gladly use my personal search history and/or the content of my emails on Gmail to provide "more relevant" (ie better targeted) ads for my when I search for completely different queries on Google. I honestly don't like this, but from a business perspective I understand this. They are capitalizing on information that they are able to gleam from my search history of their search engine (which I choose to use). I don't like that they could use this to make money, but I understand it. Well you my dear readers may ask 'Why do you always give Google shit then on this blog Eric'? The answer to that is that I am not really afraid of Google hording and calculating my next online move via analytics from them watching me, it is that I am afraid of what would happen if a Government (mine included) were to have access to that information. THAT is what scares me.
That is why this article is an interesting read and I commend the big G for keeping up the good fight. I hope that they maintain this stance forever.
Good Morning Silicon Valley
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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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