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Proposition 16
California’s proposition 16, which will be voted on next Tuesday, is an interesting use of California’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&E, a California…
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Shrek Distances
I’m sure I’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’s castle. In the second movie Shrek and Fiona appear to take a few days to get from Shrek’s swamp to Far Far Away by…
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GCC in C++
I’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’s good to see that he has apparently come around. There…
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GCC Project
GCC as a free software project is clearly very successful. Over more than 20 years it’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 continues to get…
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Iron Man 2
A few thoughts on Iron Man 2. I liked it. How odd to see a decent romantic comedy mixed into a superhero movie. Most recent romantic comedies have been terrible. Forgetting Sarah Marshall wasn’t too bad, but the last one I can remember as being solidly good was Fifty First Dates. The movies was much…