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fix the system. don't blame the people in it.
take me to your leader
by daniel on november 14, 2007 3:16 am
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oyuki, who probably knows her way around a shotgun
in an effort to both kill as much time as possible and also to destroy other people's productivity, i ran across an interesting blog article today. top ten hottest gamers of 2007. this is my kind of post! cute girls, hot games, and pleasing to the eye. can't beat that with a stick.
but of course i bring this up purely for academic purposes. who says that girls aren't into technology? yes, yes. academic purposes only, of course.
gas prices: a perspective
by daniel on november 12, 2007 8:24 pm
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just a little perspective from the new york times:
historical price of gasoline in inflation-adjusted dollars
f# blues
by daniel on november 12, 2007 1:39 pm
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so far my experiment in programming in f# has been an unmitigated disaster. not that i have killed myself trying -- i simply thought that you installed the language and everything would work. turns out it is not-that-ready-for-prime-time.
continue reading f# blues.
he saw it too
by daniel on november 9, 2007 6:42 pm
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pilot, former air force officer, and former governor:"craft did not resemble any man-made object i have ever seen."
fife symington has something to tell you. back in 1997, when half of phoenix saw strange lights in the sky, he saw them too. they were not flares, they were a solid object, and something is going on.
continue reading he saw it too.
how many fishes for the gladiator?
by daniel on november 9, 2007 6:24 pm
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i am not a fan of machine translation. i guess for some things it's fine, but i have played around with it off and on for years and it just never seems to work the way it is supposed to.
that's why when i read this article today i had to laugh. i don't like quoting other people's stuff too much, but what the hey.an email sent to the dutch foreign ministry by a group of israeli journalists has sparked a diplomatic row, thanks to an unreliable translation by babelfish.
the journalists wrote a set of questions before a planned fact-finding trip to the netherlands, running them through the online translation tool to turn them into dutch.
the beginning of the email read: 'helloh bud, enclosed five of the questions in honor of the foreign minister: the mother your visit in israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bed your mind on the conflict are israeli palestinian.'
the translation was flawed as babelfish confused 'ha'im', the hebrew word for 'if', with 'ha'ima', which means 'mother'.
another question in the email asked: 'why we did not heard on mutual visits of main the states of israel and holland, this is in the country of this?' and a third said: 'what in your opinion needs to do opposite the awful the iranian of israel?'
"how could this email possibly have been sent?" an israeli diplomat told the jerusalem post. "these journalists have sparked a major incident."
all i have to say is that if aliens from the planet kryptor visit next year and land on the whitehouse lawn, i sure hope we don't have to talk to them using something like babelfish. if we do, i'm hiding in a bomb shelter.
pon'far approaches
by daniel on november 7, 2007 4:40 pm
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so. you said what about ron paul?
it's that time again. the time that every true consultant dreads:
american elections are just around the corner.
once you get the bits and bytes of making software happen, you realize that the biggest problem is people. people have counter-productive attitudes, people have pet causes, people have grudges and people have irrational beliefs about other people and the way things work.
in short, people are tough. much tougher than algorithms. it's what keeps me coming back to strategic technology management consulting. the technical problems might be very similar, but the people you get are always a completely new universe of interesting stories and perspectives.
so it's with a sick sense of dread that i realize that we're in the last year coming up on a presidential election.
continue reading pon'far approaches.
programming with python - the other guys
by daniel on november 4, 2007 4:59 pm
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let's say you bought a new enterprise software system. reading the brochure, it does everything except make sliced bread. now that it shows up, oddly enough, it doesn't seem to do what they promised -- or at least not easily. does this sketch sound familiar?
perhaps your software is just pining for the fjords.
let's do a couple more.
continue reading programming with python - the other guys.
curse of the times: spectatoring
by daniel on november 3, 2007 3:38 pm
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i really need to cut back on my news.yc reading. i've found that it's easy just to become a spectator -- sitting around on the sidelines of everything that is going on, gabbing about my opinion of it.
continue reading curse of the times: spectatoring.
it's the data, stupid
by daniel on november 2, 2007 4:08 pm
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with news today that google is releasing news of its support for opensocial api, the light finally went on in my head.
it's the data, stupid.
continue reading it's the data, stupid.
strange visitors
by daniel on october 31, 2007 11:25 pm
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i've been working 16+ hour days for the last few days. apologies for the poor postings. but today i'm taking a few hours and trying to relax.
and, mystery of mysteries, i saw the strangest thing this evening! check it out.
thank you. thank you very much.
good thing i had my camera. wow! elvis! here in my neighborhood! wonder how he escaped from the ufo he was in?
remembering molecules?
by daniel on october 30, 2007 11:33 am
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most all the stuff you learn in school is false.
if that sounds like an extreme generalization -- it is. and it's exactly why what you learn is false: it's incomplete, it's generalized, it's dumbed-down for the masses.
it's easy to see this when you're talking about the difference between say, 2nd grade and post graduate work. little second graders can't possibly understand relativity, so we show them apples falling from trees and tell them about gravity. only later do we get into all the exceptions and interesting cases and questions.
what we have a hard time accepting, however, is that no matter how much we know, we're probably the equivalent of second graders compared to the knowledge we'll have in a couple hundred years. sure -- we don't believe in lies, after all, real science is built of experiment and observation. so what happens when we reach one of those moments, like the second grader, when we realize that there's something bigger going on?
that's where the story gets interesting.
continue reading remembering molecules?.
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