STRP has an excellent analysis of Tim Bray’s chapter in Beautiful Code. I can’t believe someone (even of Bray’s stature) has the gall to say stuff like “If you don’t know Ruby, learning it will probably make you a better programmer“. I’ll remind myself to either skip that chapter or read it knowing it is [...]
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I don’t understand the concept of sports blackouts. For those of you who don’t watch sports on TV, a blackout is when a sporting event is not televised in the market that it is taking place in. The only possible reason for this would be to encourage people to attend the game live. But I [...]
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Considering I’ll have a lot more to capture on video come August, I decided to look into purchasing a camcorder several weeks ago. I read some reviews, went to a few stores and generally did my research. I ended up deciding on the JVC Enverio line of HDD products. JVC has been building hard drive [...]
Here’s something I’ve been working on for a little while…. #include <mammal.h> class Human : public Mammal { friend Human &operator+(const Human &a, const Human &b) { return pro_create(a, b); } } int main(int argc, char **argv){ Human andrea(); Human tim(); Human x = tim + andrea; cout
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
So in the last few weeks I’ve experienced two examples of inane customer retention policy which basically goes something like this. As soon as the customer looks like he is going to leave, start spamming him with emails, snail mail, and phone calls to try to get him to stay. The first example is register.com. [...]
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Well, I’ve been slacking off in writing here for the last month or so. Between an Alaskan Cruise and visit from the nephews, this July has been extremely busy. Add to my increased frequency of posts to pliantalliance.org and you can see why July has been a non restful summer month. Let’s hope I get [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
As I mentioned a while back I quit my job at the beginning of January to take a break and check out the market. I wasn’t really sure how it was all going to work out, considering the last time I was unemployed (back in 2003) I was out of work for 6 months. As [...]
Monday, February 13, 2006
So, I haven’t been writing much lately because I’ve been hitting the pavement looking for new work. I decided to leave my previous job and see what I could find for myself. There seems to be lots out there. So far I’ve had a couple of offers, but nothing solid has come along. I did [...]
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Monday, November 21, 2005
For all two of you who read this blog, I’ve not been writing much lately due to several family visits in the last six weeks, a newly minted Masters degree (and all the celebrations that go along with that) in the house and just a general lack of stuff to write about. I’ve got several [...]
A couple quotes from Fred Gratzon, the king of laziness. Someday these quotes will apply to me … I absolutely refuse to workâhave not, will not work. It’s a waste of time. It’s a waste of life. It’s just a waste on every level, and it’s the wrong way to be successful. One does not [...]
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