Archive: July 31, 2002
Via Sam Gentile, MSDN: Best Practices for Using ADO.NET. I'd be all over this if I was still using ASP. I hate not working. I hate college. College seems to be this little socialist dystopia, and I'm very bothered by it.
This is awesome. Via Madville.com, 112 Reasons to Lead a Barren, Childless Existence That Ends in Your Death - "Learn why kids are not for everyone".
8. Kids are not that smart. Sure, some of them are smart -- for kids. Like, they learn how to walk or talk or read earlier than normal. But still, that doesn't mean you can take a three-year-old to The Man Who Wasn't There and expect her to enjoy it. She probably won't even follow it.
9. Kids are, however, smart enough to know how to piss you off. They will figure out which annoying behaviour irritates you most effectively. Or they will go about in a fine mood all day until you get to the mall, at which point they will start screaming at the top of their lungs for no apparent reason, or adopt a posture of passive resistance so that you practically have to dislocate their shoulders just to get them the hell out of there, or both.
10. You can't reason with them. And that pretty much goes for their whole lives. When they're very little, they don't understand reason. When they're medium, they tune you out. When they're teenagers, they just hate you. And when they're adults, they ignore you just because, now, they're adults and they can, if they want.
20. But that's just the tip of a gigantic iceberg: how do you make the rules that will define the kid's whole moral and intellectual framework?
40. Every choice you make will have an indelible effect on the kid for the rest of his life.
44. You and your partner have to arrive at consensus on every decision regarding the kid.
45. Even though the kid will inevitably try that whole "Mom said I could" thing in order to try to turn you against each other.
61. What if, as your child gets older, you start to think he's annoying?!
64. And because the kid is in many respects just an amplifier for all of your own attributes, including the less-attractive ones, then you have to ask yourself, "Am I annoying?"
65. Your friends' kids might be cooler than yours and make you jealous that you didn't end up with the kick-ass kids.
90. Your kid has to touch your stuff, generally, and they gunk it up or leave fingerprints on it or break it.
Kids scare the heck out of me. They're evil.
yeah, I didn't sleep yet. I just watched with honors. What a good movie.
Via Sam Gentile, via rebelutionary, via Joe (who doesn't have permalinks - bad Joe!), a draft of a new book by Kent Beck, Test-Driven Development By Example (PDF). Very exciting. You always hear about test-first development, but you never hear about how to do it. I wonder when this book is scheduled to be published?
Preach on, brotha! Guns and violence is an awesome article from The Washington Times sharing some of the statistics from the new book of the same name by Bentley College history professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, published by Harvard University Press.
Did you know defensive gun use prevents far more crimes than the police? National polls of defensive gun use by private citizens indicate that as many as 3.6 million crimes annually are prevented by armed individuals. In 98 percent of the cases, the armed citizen merely has to brandish his weapon. As many as 400,000 people each year believe they saved a life by being armed. Contrary to Handgun Control's propaganda, in less than 1 percent of confrontations do criminals succeed in taking the gun from the intended victim.
Gun control zealots claim that the availability of guns is the primary cause of homicides. Between 1973 and 1994, the number of guns in private ownership in the U.S. rose by 87 million. During this period, both the homicide rate and the percent of homicides committed with firearms dropped.
Another test of the relationship between guns and violence is provided by the concealed-carry laws now in force in 33 states. Gun control zealots predicted that traffic accidents and other altercations combined with an armed public would result in a bloodbath. Professor Malcolm confronts this false prediction with empirical evidence: "In all the decades of experience with concealed-carry laws in an increasing number of states, there is only one recorded incident of the use of a permitted handgun in a shooting following a traffic accident, and that was determined to be a case of self-defense."
The 17 states and the District of Columbia without concealed-carry permits enjoy an 81 percent higher rate of violent crime. Their restrictive gun laws produced 1,400 more murders, 4,200 more rapes, 12,000 more robberies, and 60,000 more aggravated assaults.
"This is the first of two parts." -> gotta remember to read the second part.
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