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Miguel de Icaza, I have a newfound respect for you
In what is quite possibly the greatest slashdot post ever, Miguel de Icaza finishes with
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion on OOXML you have no girlfriend to make out with).
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Hosted Distributed Version Control?
So, I have been hearing lots of buzz about distributed version control systems, like git, monotone, and darcs. I have be in the habit of using subversion on my laptop even for very small hacks and for homework. But you know, subversion is old and centralized and totally not the version control de jour ( Read more... ) -
Leaked interview questions from a finance company
I don't know which company these are from. It's funny how I'd be pissed if my interview questions leaked, but here I am leaking questions. I think #1 is particularly interesting, but that is just maybe because it confounded some of my coworkers.
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- The following decision procedure is used to pick a red or black ball from a pair of jars. ( Read more... )
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Faithful non-existent readers, do my research!
I am seriously thinking about implementing my concert alert for Pandora idea in my free time.
It would be nice if these things already existed.- An open source library that turns an address (zip code, whatever) into some manageable form of geographic information, say a latitude/longitude pair.
- A library for actually manipulating lat/long pairs. ( Read more... )
- An open source library that turns an address (zip code, whatever) into some manageable form of geographic information, say a latitude/longitude pair.
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You know you are hurting when...
- You are making LiveJournal posts at 5:33 AM
- The 7th result for the query for [vegetarian -indian jersey city nj] is Fat Burger. For the non-adept, this is a query for vegetarian food in Jersey City that isn't Indian. Sigh, we are not in Manhattan anymore, Toto.
- You are too damn tired to come up with a reasonable third thing to whine about, ( Read more... )
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Pinch runner as baseball position
I recently went to back to back Mets games, despite little interest in professional sports. During the game, I thought that it might be useful to have a "designated runner", a player whose sole purpose is to pinch run in critical situations. Imagine you had an Olympic 100 meter gold medalist. How many bases could such a person steal ( Read more... ) -
urllib2, I smite thee
Yeah, so maybe I am just bitching about perceived problems in python's urllib2.
How is this for braindead?
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Ethics and investing: Is exercising your stock options unethical?
No, this has nothing to do with insider trading ( Read more... ) -
Moving to Jersey City
Manhattan is nice, but damn expensive. I am moving back to Jersey, where my 23+ year streak of never having spent an entire month outside of Jersey will surely continue. The area I am into Newport, a place with a bunch of high rise apartments. I'll be in a one bedroom, shared with my current roomate, Terry, living even higher (33rd floor) than I ( Read more... ) -
Contact your senators/representative and save internet radio
For the first time, I called the offices of my senators and representatives to support the "Internet Radio Equality Act". In protest of a terrible, retroactive internet radio rate hike ruling by the Copyright Review Board, Pandora is holding a day of silence. Pandora along with a bunch of other internet radio stations aren't playing any music ( Read more... )