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Computers are completely unintelligent. Just big adding machines that count on their fingers....
Computers are completely unintelligent. Just big adding machines that count on their fingers. Except they have an incredible amount of fingers and can count awfully fast. — Harry Harrison, Homeworld
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 30, 2010 3:37 PM
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TMUX - The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 1)
Alternative to GNU Screen with some interesting features. Vertical splits look especially interesting: I’m looking forward to Part 2.
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Ryan Tomayko
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Oct 29, 2010 7:32 AM
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Almost two years after I started playing it, I have finished the...
Almost two years after I started playing it, I have finished the single player main quest of Fallout 3. Only five expansion packs and a significant amount of missed quests to go!
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 28, 2010 5:01 PM
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Drools rules
Lately I have been looking at drools as an answer to dealing with simple rules that shouldn't involve an engineer.So far I am impressed. Guvnor seems a little shakey, so I am sticking with the simplest features and a design that doesn't rely on it. But it aids in learning the language.
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Terra Caines
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Oct 24, 2010 5:11 PM
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You wouldn’t murder a policeman.
You wouldn’t murder a policeman.
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 22, 2010 7:54 PM
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And all the while, while vampires feed, I bleed. I Bleed (by...
And all the while, while vampires feed, I bleed. I Bleed (by Bridget Franckowiak, via merlin)
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 22, 2010 5:53 PM
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RCA student radically improves the UK plug | ICON MAGAZINE...
RCA student radically improves the UK plug | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE [Apologies for the fact that most of the links in this post are to Wikipedia - it’s simply the best collation of these standards in a publicly accessible format] This looks great and all, but lets not be too quick to diss the BS1363 plug just because it’s not as thin as a Macbook...
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 12, 2010 4:47 PM
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theatlantic: Oliver Hulland visits the NSA’s cryptologic...
theatlantic: Oliver Hulland visits the NSA’s cryptologic museum: The highlight of the museum is the functional Enigma: an electro-mechanical rotor machine used for the encryption and decryption of messages by the Germans in World War II. When I was 14 I saw an enigma machine at the Orangerie in Kassel, Germany - it’s one of two times when I...
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 10, 2010 4:08 PM
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mnmal: via onminimalism For me, the real irony is that since...
mnmal: via onminimalism For me, the real irony is that since I’ve disabled Facebook Platform, this won’t be published on my account. I’ve not quite left, I’ve just ham-strung it. It’s a process.
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 5, 2010 10:30 AM
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Technical Debt isn't always Debt
After yesterday’s posts about why you should not focus on reducing technical debt and why that’s not an excuse to ignore it either. Dave brought up a good point in a comment. Technical debt can be assessed like real debt, to a large degree. How much are you paying monthly because of the debt? An [...]
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Mark Ramm
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Oct 4, 2010 8:22 PM
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Ignoring “technical debt” is like playing with dynamite
Earlier today, I posted the somewhat controversial Focusing on Technical Debt is a dead end and apparently I missed some of the subtlety required to get my actual point across. I still don’t believe that it makes sense to focus on technical debt. Technical debt is a fact of life, and it’s a sign that [...]
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Mark Ramm
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Oct 4, 2010 12:18 PM
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Focusing on removing “technical debt” is a dead end.
Americans, myself included, have a very short term perspective. Results matter, and this quarter’s results matter most. Perhaps next quarter is important too, heck we might even think a year out. But we rarely take the *long* view. Push harder and you can make this quarter’s numbers a bit better. Push harder and you’ll get [...]
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Mark Ramm
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Oct 3, 2010 10:19 PM
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Caption: c-hey and Twitter DM emails: separated at...
Caption: c-hey and Twitter DM emails: separated at birth? It’s nice to see people paying attention to the text version of their multipart/alternative emails. I’ve tried a great deal of IMAP clients, but I still keep coming back to PINE1, the first client I ever used. Most text/plain parts of emails are: Blank. Heads up: if you just send...
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 3, 2010 2:31 PM
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cyclops_mysql and jquery-marvin
It's been many months since I last posted anything. My fiancee came back from a tour of duty in Iraq and we did a driving tour for almost three months. Turns out, driving, travel, visiting friends and family, and getting things prepared for a wedding take a lot of work. I'm sad to say that I put off work and other external issues during most of...
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Andrew Dalke
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Oct 3, 2010 2:27 AM
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It is desirable that a man […] live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy...
It is desirable that a man […] live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety. — Henry Thoreau, Walden My answer is yes. A couple of years ago my wife and I moved countries. I was able to almost just leave with nothing but a small...
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Aaron Brady
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Oct 1, 2010 12:30 AM
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