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eBay
I’m not a serious eBay user. I’ve bought four or five items on eBay over the years. I’ve never sold anything on it. I once did a sales presentation at eBay; they didn’t buy our software. I was surprised to read in the newspaper that eBay is making a deal with buy.com to sell stuff…
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Reading Code
The two best ways of learning how to program are writing code and reading (good) code. I read a lot of code in my younger days, and I think it helped me. Programming courses give students plenty of practice in writing code. I wonder how many give students an opportunity to read good code. There…
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Telecom Immunity
The telecom companies helped the Bush administration in wiretapping people without a warrant. The wiretapping was illegal by any reasonable reading of the law (the law was written after the last burst of questionable government wiretapping during the 60s). There has been a strong push by some people to sue the telecom companies for their…
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Wanted
Wanted was a fun if brutal comic book written by Mark Millar and illustrated by J.G. Jones. It came out at a time when Millar was finding his own voice after doing a lot of work with Grant Morrison. It tells the story of a general loser, Wesley Gibson, who discovers that he is the…
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Reducing Oil Consumption
The New York Time had a big article on Sunday on missed opportunities to cut oil consumption. The article covers various ideas, but it focuses on automobile fuel standards. I think that is a mistake. I do think that the automobile fuel standards should be higher. Historically the American car companies have argued against this,…