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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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(Monday, November 6)
1st Official "No Skip Button on Music Player of Choice " Week
I have filled up my ipod and as I go down the list to delete stuff I can't really find anything that I want to delete. So I have decided that this entire week I am not allowed to skip any song on my ipod. Hopefully by forcing myself to listen to every song that the God awful randomizer on my ipod (seriously has to be the worse randomizer in the world) it will force me to decided if I really need that 33:42 minute version of Mountain Jam.
No skipping. At All. It should also be noted that I probably only have about 30 or 40 single songs on my ipod, the rest are entire Albums (i like to listen to the album in order) so there is totally some suckage in some of those full length albums (FOXYMOPHANDLEMAMA Anyone?), but I will not break apart albums, so even though I have to get through "One More Night" to get to my official Zuma playing theme song "Easy Lover" (ask the wife, nothing better than 3 or 4 beers, standing around in a boxers with the wireless x360 controller in hand dancing/playing zuma), it has to be done. I will report my deletion findings at the end of the week.
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
© Copyright 2003-2007, Eric Thompson |
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