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Hate crime legislation is a unique issue in that,...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:22:38 -0600

Hate crime legislation is a unique issue in that, every time I've seen an argument about it on the internet, some of those who started out opposed to it have changed their minds by the end of the discussion.
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Equanimity is lots of fun.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:09:07 -0600

Equanimity is lots of fun.
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Java developers! Improve your tooling!...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:38:27 -0600

Java developers! Improve your tooling!

IntelliJ IDEA has gone open source, at least for a basic version. I'd urge anybody doing Java development to check it out. Individual tastes vary, but I find it worlds better than any of the other Java IDEs out there.

Also, Cucumber, a fantastic Ruby tool which lets you write automatic acceptance tests that can also act as human-readable documentation, is now available for virtually all the JVM languages.
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Awesome Steampunk Cakes. Fuck yeah.

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:24 -0600

Awesome Steampunk Cakes. Fuck yeah.
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:09:56 -0600

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So, accepted dogma about object oriented design...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0600

So, accepted dogma about object oriented design says that inheritance of implementations is bad, and multiple inheritance of implementations is worst of all. (This is why Java won't even let you do it). On the other hand, delegation is good, and dependency injection is good, because they let you keep your classes simple and decoupled.

Now, suppose you have a dependency injection framework that will provide your class with any other classes it asks for in its constructor. And suppose your language provides an easy delegation method, in which a class can automatically delegate to all the public methods of one of its fields.

At this point, a class can declare a list of other classes whose implementation it will use for some of its methods. How is this different from multiple inheritance?
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:03:42 -0600

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Listening to the In Our Time about Dante's Inferno...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:08 -0600

Listening to the In Our Time about Dante's Inferno today reminded me of just what a vile little book it is.

(This has been Bloglet's "I Hate Your Art" segment for September. See you again in October, I guess.)
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Oh, hey, the New York Times published something on...

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:30:45 -0600

Oh, hey, the New York Times published something on pair programming.
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Now it's time to sleep a lot.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:35:17 -0600

Now it's time to sleep a lot.
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Beach. Not Ocean. Weird.

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:45:36 -0600

Beach. Not Ocean. Weird.

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Scary Ass Building

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:33:49 -0600

Scary Ass Building

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Atomic Clock

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:02:59 -0600

Atomic Clock

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Pieces

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:28:11 -0600

Pieces

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One of the small pleasures of this summer, for me,...

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:24:53 -0600

One of the small pleasures of this summer, for me, is knowing that Quentin Tarantino and Lars "Von" Trier both have movies out, and relishing the fact that I don't have to see either of them.
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Dracula

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:41:47 -0600

Dracula

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This.

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:34:53 -0600

This.
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At thesixtyone, artists submit songs and people...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:29:12 -0600

At thesixtyone, artists submit songs and people using the site can vote for the ones they like. It seems to have some good music on it.
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Perfect?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:52:50 -0600

Perfect?

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Time for Bed

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:07:04 -0600

Time for Bed

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Where I'm staying

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:14:53 -0600

Where I'm staying

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"Does Mirabai know about this?"...

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:10:03 -0600

"Does Mirabai know about this?"
"I'm not sure..."
"Because she needs to know about this."
(via MetaFilter)
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Moon was great...

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:10:33 -0600

Moon was great. I kept being afraid that it was going to become either too clichéd or too arty, and it kept avoiding it. Good SF in that the science fiction setting was essential to the story without overwhelming it. Also, Sam Rockwell is very funny.
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"He seems to have a very reasonable view on...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:07:24 -0600

"He seems to have a very reasonable view on that..."
"Great."
"By which I mean it's in line with my own."
"That's what the word means."
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The new season of Torchwood...

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:56:30 -0600

The new season of Torchwood? Is as bad as everyone's been saying.
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Should anyone care, our Wii number is 1040 2919...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:42:31 -0600

Should anyone care, our Wii number is 1040 2919 9475 0469.
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Sleeping

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:57:39 -0600

Sleeping

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Happy birthday to Alan Turing!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:26:55 -0600

Happy birthday to Alan Turing!
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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:09:28 -0600

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Delusions

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:53:10 -0600

Delusions

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Links for 2005-12-18 [del.icio.us]

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 PST

RFC: MetaWeblog API
Been reading up on this to figure out how to implement it for Bloglet.
theory.isthereason » From Del.icio.us to WordPress: How to automatically post daily links
How to do daily del.icio.us posts via a blogging API (MetaWeblog, I think).

Links for 2005-09-18 [del.icio.us]

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PDT

Tristan Perich - Portable Telephone
This is a truly great hack

Links for 2005-09-14 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PDT

Workbench: Justice Junction, What's Your Function?

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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PDT

FEMA For Kids: Celebrating Sept. 11, 2002 -- Patriot's Day

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Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PDT

TIBET - AJAX
"Enterprise Class Asynchronous JavaScript And XML"

Links for 2005-08-30 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 PDT

New Scientist 11 steps to a better brain - Features

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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:00:00 PDT

The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy"