Archive: August 13, 2004

Friday, August 13, 2004

1. Efectos Especiales: Decorate this. A post explaining Python 2.4's decorators. I didn't know what the heck they were about until now. Now I understand a little. Like Hans, I still don't see when they'd be useful.

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2. DJ Drummond at PoliPundit has an interesting summary of the next few months of the campaign. Who knows how off the mark he is, but it's an interesting read.

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3. The Exponential Nature of Lines of Code, via Ned.

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4. Via InstaPundit, Neal Boortz has a good column comparing media reaction to Bush's "AWOL" charge vs. how they're reacting to the charges of the Swift Boat Vets.

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5. Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (Essay) (to read)

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6. Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

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7. Belmont Club: Najaf. Update: Another post from Wretchard

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8. TCS: Tech Central Station - The Kerry Campaign's Funny Math. His numbers don't add up. He's made trillions of dollars of promises.

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9. Glenn Reynolds has a lot more on Kerry's Cambodia claim. More at LGF, and still no coverage at the NY Times or the Washington Post. Update: More at InstaPundit.com. Update: More at LGF, here and here. Also see Donald Sensing's post.

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10. I've been blogging a ton over the past day -- I'm cleaning out my inbox, so I've been sitting at my computer a lot, and I'm also blogging old links I saved in my inbox. I'm down to <100 messages in my inbox. Woo.

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11. XML.com: Amazon's Web Services and XSLT (to read)

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12. So far on Gentoo I've purely been using nano. I don't have VIM or Emacs installed yet. However, an editor I'd definitely like to try out is JED. I'd also like to explore Joe.

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13. I thought I blogged this before, but I looked and I didn't: Reagan's remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas (text), but I'd really recommend downloading the audio (mp3).

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14. Things CPU Architects Need To Think About (video) (to watch), via HtP.

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15. Donald Sensing has a large discussion of Kerry's claims about being in Cambodia on Christmas in 1968.

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16. The Farm: The Tucows Developers' Hangout :: [Microsoft] Windows XP SP2 Torrent Shut Down. This is exactly the type of thing that makes me really glad I'm (slowly, it appears) moving to Gentoo.

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17. Getting her doctorate - at 14 - Independent Collegian - News. Impressive. Via.

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18. Joseph Scott's Blog » Answer To Peter Bowyer’s Question. You can put arbitrary conditions in case statements?

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