Archive: February 17, 2006

Friday, February 17, 2006

1. LA Times: Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted: DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture:

   From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.
   
   "We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God."
   
   A few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East.

   Hahaha. Duh. Speaking of Mormonism, Clayton Cramer had a post about it a little while back.

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2. Some cool videos. And WTF is this?

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3. Vietnam man handles three decades without sleep.

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4. FuzzyBlog » Blog Archive » Responding to Ian on PHP:

   I tend to reuse code from other PHP developers incredibly selectively. So I’ll pull in damn near anything from Simon or from Keith or Matt and a few other sources...

   Aww, shucks.

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Finally getting to try out IronPython

I'm finally getting to try out IronPython. Here's the IronPython home page... it actually took me a little while to find it because the top results on Google for the project are old.

Now after using it, I feel like this video I linked a few months ago and rewatched today is a little misleading, since I couldn't get the "catch an exception or hit a break point and follow the stack trace from Python back up through C#" feature I was most excited about to work.

I read Aaron Marten's post explaining how to get Visual Studio integration with Python but the result was merely a demo and not something you'd use on a real project, and it wasn't like what Jim Hugunin showed in the video. So, was Hugunin using some Visual Studio integration code that hasn't yet been released, or have I missed something?

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