Archive: December 22, 2005

Thursday, December 22, 2005

1. This was HI-larious: http://web.unbc.ca/~robert/Funny/leeroy.wmv

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2. Bad news in the Iraqi elections. Lots and lots of fraud. As Reynolds says, "Democratization is a process, not an event. We'll soon see just how far along in the process we've progressed."

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3. Ian Bicking on imagination:

   But if you think that's it, that there's nothing left to work on, then you sorely lack imagination.

   Nice. I've tried to take the quote out of the context of his post, since I think it's more generally applicable then being just about web frameworks. I may even add it to my quotes.

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4. Washington Times: 'Warrantless' searches not unprecedented:

   Previous administrations, as well as the court that oversees national security cases, agreed with President Bush's position that a president legally may authorize searches without warrants in pursuit of foreign intelligence.
   
   "The Department of Justice believes -- and the case law supports -- that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes and that the president may, as he has done, delegate this authority to the attorney general," Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick said in 1994 testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

   Much more info in that article. The left cries wolf so much with Bush that it's impossible to take them seriously on any of their criticism of Bush. And that's unfortunate.

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PMD - Copy/Paste Detector (CPD)

PMD - Finding copied and pasted code. Check out all the copy and pasted code in the Java 1.4 libraries!! My gosh! (Via Paul (thanks!), via Jared.) I think it's fitting that the Copy/Paste detector is itself written in Java.

Unfortunately this tool probably grossly underestimates the amount of duplication in a codebase. Often when code is copy and pasted it's changed slightly, but best I can tell this looks for an exact match. So, best I can tell, you can have 1000 lines of duplicated code with one character difference and it won't find it. (Or, maybe it'll find two smaller chunks of duplicated code...)

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