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Gold Released
I have finally released gold, the new ELF linker I’ve been working on, to the free software world. It is now part of the GNU binutils. I sent an announcement to the binutils mailing list.
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Latchkey Children
I recently heard, purely anecdotally, about a case where a neighbor called Child Protective Services when a ten-year old boy came home and his mother wasn’t there. His mother was out shopping or something, and had given him a key. I don’t know if this really happened or not, but it seems like an extraordinary…
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Walking Robot
I was very impressed by this walking robot (that link is to a video on YouTube). Watching it gave me a very strong feeling of “the future is now.” No doubt there are many hurdles to overcome, but it sure seems like we could all have a walking robot pack horse in ten years (well,…
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St. Patrick’s Day
Growing up outside of Boston, St. Patrick’s Day was a significant holiday. We even got it off school–though to avoid church and state conflicts it was known as Evacuation Day, supposedly in honor of the date that the British troops were forced out of Boston in 1776. I was quite surprised to discover that this…
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Social Entrepreneurs
A friend of mine who has been working for many years in an area that is now known as social entrepreneurship commented that there is no good economic model for it (he thinks of things like this because he went to business school). This led me to think about economic models for charitable giving. Economists…