The Frenemy., Carrie Bradshaw Math
august 2011 by strawjack
YOU MAKE NONE OF THE SENSE, BRADSHAW.
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august 2011 by strawjack
Schneier on Security: Close the Washington Monument
december 2010 by strawjack
We can reopen the Washington Monument when we've defeated our fears, when we've come to accept that placing safety above all other virtues cedes too much power to government and that liberty is worth the risks, and that the price of freedom is accepting the possibility of crime.
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december 2010 by strawjack
Chris Hedges: A Recipe for Fascism - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
november 2010 by strawjack
On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to respond coherently to the collapse of the global economy, the dismantling of our manufacturing sector and the deadly assault on the ecosystem. On the other side stands a mass of increasingly bitter people whose alienation, desperation and rage fuel emotionally driven and incoherent political agendas. It is a recipe for fascism.
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november 2010 by strawjack
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
september 2010 by strawjack
A teacher of mine once told me of a game he and a colleague would sometimes play: The contest involved pulling a book at random from the shelves of the Chinese section of the Asia Library and then seeing who could be the first to figure out what the book was about.
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september 2010 by strawjack
A letter to my students « The Berkeley Blog
august 2010 by strawjack
A rant for students about how their parents' choices around California governance have fucked us all.
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august 2010 by strawjack
OmniTI ~ The cloud is great. Stop the hype.
june 2010 by strawjack
While it may appear that I hate the cloud, it simply isn't so. I hate the half-baked arguments for it. I hate the hype. It is a perfectly legitimate tool in the already large arsenal of engineering tools.
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june 2010 by strawjack
slacktivist: I think maybe part of the reason you're so angry is you keep demanding that you get screwed and then, not surprisingly, you keep getting screwed
february 2010 by strawjack
You *should* be angry. You're getting screwed.
I think you know that. But you don't seem to know that it doesn't have to be that way. You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that's screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so.
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I think you know that. But you don't seem to know that it doesn't have to be that way. You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that's screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so.
february 2010 by strawjack
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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september 2009 by strawjack
research books internet google data book googlebooks google-books scanning cataloging google_books digitization metadata languagelog fail library academia search archive libraries ebooks rant technology digital digitallibraries digital_libraries nunberg automation errors gbs
september 2009 by strawjack
Google's Response to "A Metadata Train Wreck"
september 2009 by strawjack
A long comment on the article page itself.
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errors
gbs
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september 2009 by strawjack
Language Log » Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
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september 2009 by strawjack
research books internet google data book googlebooks google-books scanning cataloging google_books digitization metadata languagelog fail library academia search archive libraries ebooks rant technology digital digitallibraries digital_libraries nunberg automation errors gbs
september 2009 by strawjack
Unlimited Novelty: Twitter: blaming Ruby for their mistakes?
april 2009 by strawjack
See the end of the post for clarification and followup.
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april 2009 by strawjack
The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Why I Hate Frameworks
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january 2009 by strawjack
article programming funny software development design humour tech articles geek java fun architecture essay humor code webdev joelonsoftware joel patterns rant agile framework complexity frameworks factory hammer j2ee briliant blog blogs
january 2009 by strawjack
Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
september 2008 by strawjack
Pretty interesting claim: if you're "gathering business requirements", you're already doomed to building crap, because you haven't internalized what you're building.
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september 2008 by strawjack
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