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Intelligent Design
I hope that the Legacy Code post doesn’t imply that I am any kind of fan of the Intelligent Design movement. As someone who finds value in both faith and science, a movement which so horribly distorts the things I find wonderful about both is pretty unappealing to me except in the context perhaps of…
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Legacy Code
I don’t know much about genetics but I have done some research into it lately. Mostly, I wanted to learn more about how genes mutate and combine to form new genes and see how this relates to the way computer programs are constructed. Not surprisingly our genetic code does not seem to be very clean…
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10 things I learned in the Game Industry
Since I’m currently in my latest attempt to quit the game industry, I thought it would be good to make a list of what I learned. Alpha Blending covers over way more sins than you think it will. The best Game design comes just borrowing ideas from other places and iterating. See any game by…
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Thoughts on El Salvador
Since I got back from El Salvador, I seem to be having a lot of trouble re-adjusting. There are a lot of potential reasons for this and as usual I have spent too much time over-examining most of them. There were a lot of thoughts and feelings compressed into one week. It never seemed like…
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Xkcd
I went to El Salavdor a few weeks ago and had a completely wonderful time. Unforunately, I got sick when I got back and it took a long time to recover. I learned the hard way that having low energy can lead to pretty bad feelings of depression etc. Usually the best cure for this…
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Its a fun day to watch Fox News
Or read the right wing blogs. Its so much fun to see them try to find a silver lining or make their point about what this means about the GOPs future direction. Its so much fun because they sound like the Democrats have after the last few elections and its just nice to be reminded…
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War bad? Who’da Thunk it?
So now Vanity fair has the latest in the series of statements by proponents of the Irag War who now are saying that if they had known it would be this bad they maybe wouldn’t have, you know, been for the war. This time its Richard Perle, the only man in America who might be…
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No Code Left Behind
I have never been a member of the Unit Testing Cult. That’s not to say that I don’t think tests are a good idea, or that I haven’t used them in the past. Maybe I just haven’t worked on enough XML parsers. Most of the work I have done is in highly interactive applications (video…
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A new solution to the Immigration problem?
According to this BBC piece (and alot of other sources) the distribution of income and wealth in this country is becoming concentrated more and more at the top. While the country as a whole is seeing increasing economic growth the real effect of that growth goes mostly to wealthier people. During the five years from…
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Better Management Through Incompetence
There’s alot of talk on the internet and even on this blog about how to be a better manager. There’s also alot of talk about how to be a better parent. In The Blank Slate Pinker makes the case that being a better parent doesn’t really matter much. He cites research showing peers and genes…
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?”