Luc Bourdon killed in motorcycle accident :-(
TSN.ca: Defenceman Bourdon killed in motorcycle accident
Oh no, that's terrible!
links for 2008-05-28
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This is Steve Yegge's previous (internal to Amazon) blog archive
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McCain's campaign co-chairs Graham and Lieberman are on the board of advisors for an Anti-Obama 527 organization. But his campaign policy says no one in the McCain campaign can participate in a 527 that make statements opposing a presidential candidate.
Indict Karl Rove
Brasschecktv.com: Indict Karl Rove
I wonder how many people understand the profound significance of the recent subpoena of Karl Rove by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Let me lay it out for you.
If what Karl Rove did to the election rolls is not corrected, John McCain has already been elected president."
Interesting information in that video about Rove's caging lists, who they targeted, the legality of their voter challenges, and how much more likely minorities will have their votes uncounted than white voters. 900% for African Americans, 500% for Hispanic Americans and 2000% for Native Americans. Three million votes went uncounted in the 2004 election.
My response to direct market advertising
I just got called by a machine from Tyco in Toronto asking for my response to direct market advertising.
I responded immediately. Buh-bye. I hope my message was clear and useful.
links for 2008-05-24
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Really impressive stuff. When I saw this I thought about the games I play and realized they don't do any of this, and suddenly they feel sorta primitive!
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You know what, if Erlang is good enough for Facebook for their chat system, then it's damn well good enough for Twitter. I think they're already using ejabberd, but perhaps they should be using it for more of their infrastructure.
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"Another area I have seen many issues with is threading. Languages like C# and Java make threading a reachable concept for the programming masses." What? How is threading in Java or C# any easier than in C/pthreads, except on a superficial basis?
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It's nice to see a lot of knowledgable people breaking down Ted Neward's uninformed FUD about Erlang. Erlang's core strengths are fundamental to the design of the language and its runtime, you can't simply shoehorn it into other languages with a library.


