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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, August 31)
BBS : This is your life cyanbane.
Visiting such old BBSes is incredible - it's like traveling back in time to the early-mid 1990s. Each BBS is a unique a time capsule, stocked with trinkets and ephemera from the period. On message boards, you'll find posts from 1994 about the O.J. Simpson trial and which player-made Doom levels are best. In file transfer sections you’ll run across large archives of long-forgotten Windows 3.1 screen savers. In door sections (online games), you'll find abandoned TradeWars 2002 games, still in progress, that haven't been touched in eight years. And of course, the Ferrengi have completely taken over.
Back long before the internet, I knew was this 12 or 13 year old kid, who would spend HOURS and HOURS at home either on BBS's, in Door Games, moving warez, drawing ASCII art, or playing Sierra Online's Red Baron and Shadow of Yseribus. The internet would be around in the next 2-3 years for the tech savvy, and to some point available to the general masses via large scale online services (Prodigy, Compuserve, AOHell, etc.) I think it will be neat to be able to tell my kids I was there during the beginning, when people used to "gopher" news and "finger" each other (still cracks me up to this day). I have a very fond nostalgia for BBS's and I really never realized that this world was still around (even in this time capsule like state). I started programming with VB at about age 12, and moved on to C++ a few years later. BBS's were the doorway to what I do now everyday, the FAQs were invaluable to a young programmer (haXor) that didn't have access to large bookstores. Yeah, there was some Anarchist's Cookbooks (the only things that DarkBBS geeks loved more than phreakingand Bl4ckh4x was making things go boom)also assorted warez, and games that were also downloaded from this underbelly, but I will always have fond memories of setting up a "disk 3" on zmodem down/up at 2am (having it finish at 7am and it is only 3 megs uncompressed) and copying it to 1.44"'s and trading with other geeks at school for disk 1 and disk 3 (which they had been up at 3 am downloading also) or my parents getting pissed at me because I had to do a BBS call back verification and the phone woke them up at 4 am.
Capn Crunch, Wildcat!, and ACiD actually helped provide the technical base I have now.
Good Times.
VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming � Blog Archive � The Dial-Up BBS Revisited
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Disclaimer
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