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The TARP Volley
Congress votes to spend ,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) in taxpayer money on the bailout plan. AIG gets a hefty chunk of that – 0,000,000,000, or about ,600 per U.S. household. AIG pays out 5,000,000 in bonuses (~.46 per household) to executives. The media fails to put the proper context on this and creates a political…
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Prototype bind() Performance
[UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Noticed a bug in the test code and had to redo all the tests.] [UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Refactored test code and included trunk variant from Tobie Langel (core Prototype team member)] [UPDATE: 2009-03-12 – Added tests for Kangax’s solution, added “Improved” test – a hybrid of Kangax+Broofa] I recently proposed an alternate…
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Truths Lost
The recent revelations emerging from the CIA about the 92 tapes they destroyed – tapes that documented their interrogations of two Al Qaida terrorist suspects – evoke a hard-to-explain anger. It is an emotional reaction that comes from somewhere primal, and I don’t completely understand it. I had this same reaction upon hearing of the…
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Thank You Sisyphus
When I woke up this morning, I’d resigned myself to not blogging about today’s presidential inauguration. Not because it’s not special or blog-worthy, of course, but because it’s going to get so much attention that I just didn’t think I’d have much to add. However I just read Aaryn Belfer’s latest post about how Obama…
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“I still have room to love a sweetheart …”
I have not been so moved recently, as when I noticed that Richard Stallman’s personal ad has this HTTP header: Last-Modified: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:48:07 GMT He has done so much for software developers, for anyone who uses a computer really, and is so under appreciated. I hope he finds happiness (and learns to…