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		<title>Clever Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always found it easy to deal with machines, as I expect is true of most computer programmers.  The interface to a machine is not always logical, but it is normally consistent in the sense that it always behaves the same way given the same inputs, and it is normally unambiguous in the sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/386</link>
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		<title>Living with the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Stockholm for a few weeks, which is why I haven&#8217;t been updating this blog.  I&#8217;ve been in Sweden many times before, but one thing I&#8217;ve noticed particularly this time is the way that old existing buildings have been adapted for modern times.  It&#8217;s quite common to see stone steps which look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/384</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a well thought out view of Afghanistan.  But General McChrystal&#8217;s counter-insurgency plan never made much sense to me.  The plan by definition requires a government which the people can trust.  But all reports are that Hamid Karzai is not trusted by the people in Afghanistan.  The election last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/382</link>
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		<title>Death-taxis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across a few articles recently about how modern medicine is on the road to conquer death in the next thirty years or so.  I find this to be very unlikely, and I feel that people aren&#8217;t thinking about the real issues.  I&#8217;ve seen two general themes.  One is that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/380</link>
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		<title>Martin Beck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the great popularity of Stieg Larsson&#8217;s novels have triggered a new interest in Swedish mystery authors.  I&#8217;d like to plug the Martin Beck series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.  It&#8217;s ten books written in the 60s and 70s.
Actually, other than being Swedish, they are entirely different from Larsson&#8217;s novels.  Larsson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/378</link>
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		<title>gccgo panic/recover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March Go picked up a dynamic exception mechanism.  Previously, when code called the panic function, it simply aborted your program.  Now, it walks up the stack to the top of the currently running goroutine, running all deferred functions.  More interestingly, if a deferred function calls the new recover function, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/376</link>
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		<title>Proposition 16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s proposition 16, which will be voted on next Tuesday, is an interesting use of California&#8217;s bizarre ballot initiative process.  The proposition says that if a local government wants to start a municipal electrical utility, it must get a 2/3 majority of votes.  The proposition was initiated and almost entirely funded by PG&#038;E, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/374</link>
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		<title>Shrek Distances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only person troubled by the loose geography in the Shrek movies.  In the first movie Shrek takes a couple of days to get to the dragon&#8217;s castle.  In the second movie Shrek and Fiona appear to take a few days to get from Shrek&#8217;s swamp to Far Far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/372</link>
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		<title>GCC in C++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to see that the GCC steering committee has agreed to permit GCC to be written in C++.  At one time RMS, who is a member of the steering committee, had felt that C++ was never appropriate for systems programs like GCC.  It&#8217;s good to see that he has apparently come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/370</link>
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		<title>GCC Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GCC as a free software project is clearly very successful.  Over more than 20 years it&#8217;s grown from nothing to become the standard compiler for several operating systems and many microprocessors.  So far in 2010 the core part of the compiler alone has seen over 1000 commits by over 100 contributors.  GCC [...]]]></description>
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