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Monthly Archives: June 2005
The lithic principle
Courtesy of the Effect Measure public health blog, this gem from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our…
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I have seen the future of free distributed revision control systems
And it is Mercurial. I have used BitKeeper for several years, and it is quite simply a fantastic piece of software. But for non-commercial projects, at least if I want to collaborate with other people, it is no longer an…
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How to stop feeling sorry for oneself
Not too long ago, I decided to start tracking the books I read more closely. Though I had no particular goal in mind when I started this, I had been entertaining, for a while, the notion that I am not…
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Missourian sprawl
We spent the past week near Kansas City, MO, at a wedding-cum-reunion for Shannon’s family. The sprawl around Kansas City is frightening, making Silicon Valley appear dense by comparison. It was over thirty miles from our hotel to the nearest…
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Cleaning up the geek bookshelf, part 1: “What was I thinking?”
In preparation for a move of house that isn’t actually likely to happen until 2007, Shannon and I have been going through some of our bookshelves. Our (admittedly unattainable) goal is to get rid of half of our books. Since…
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Delicious Python
Or why I love popular scripting languages, reason number one zillion. I use Sage with Firefox to keep up with various blogs, and del.icio.us as a URL dumping ground. It took me approximately five minutes to find a Python interface…
Ah, classic science fiction
Shannon and I spent a dizzying hour at Borderlands Books in the Mission last Friday. (I know, I know, it’s been over a week.) Borderlands is the perfect geek bookstore, right down to the unnaturally friendly Sphinx cat who haunts…
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Why I love Atlas Cafe
I’m taking a lazy afternoon away from Shannon and Cian, who are at the beach in Aptos. Atlas is a sublime place to laze. As I’m tapping away on my laptop, the Mission Chick behind the bar yells out, “You…
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The multithreaded programming FAQ: It’s back (sort of)
About a decade ago (!), I wrote the Usenet FAQ on multithreaded programming. In spite of the fact that I haven’t maintained the thing since 1997, it surprises me by continuing to get a few thousand hits every month. Unfortunately,…
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A nasty bug in mDNSResponder
I found an interesting bug this morning in Apple’s mDNSResponder daemon. This is the Mac OS X daemon responsible for managing automatic network configuration and service discovery, basically the thingy that a Mac uses to tell you “there’s a printer on the…
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