| 2010 03 10 | Obama and the Truth
As it happened, that night Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that "we've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."
In fact, more than 40 former lobbyists work in the administration, including such policy makers as...
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| 2010 03 09 | TRON Legacy Trailer |
| 2010 03 09 | WebGrazer3
Released a new version that is free for images and only requires a license for viewing movies.
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| 2010 03 09 | The Tao of Programming
The most obvious approach to a solution is to label one of these elements as evil and attempt to remove or suppress it. For example, functional programming attempts to remove state and declarative programming attempts to remove behavior. When either fails, it explains it's failures in terms of it's own assumptions - as lack of purity, as having not sufficiently suppressed what it has labeled evil.
Taoist have a similar concept of how complexity arises through the interaction of yin and yang but reject the notion that either is evil and instead focus on the idea of balance. From this perspective, object oriented programming might be seen as a Taoist programming philosophy. Instead of rejecting state or behavior, a balance is sought by combining the two into small worlds of interaction in ways that minimize net communication while still accepting that it must take place.
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| 2010 03 09 | Facebook app: Mall World
My friend Jack Wu just released the most polished FB app I've seen.
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| 2010 03 08 | Meaning and Muse
Radically new patterns of personal relationships and general life circumstances do occasionally disrupt things, but these instances are exceedingly rare, and they're often tamed and even counteracted by a kind of existential gravity that inexorably pulls our lives back into what comes increasingly to seem like a predetermined shape...
Can you grasp what it would be like to understand your life's trajectory in terms of meaning, in the same way that you find meaning in music, literature, films, and so on - and to refer the resulting truths and patterns to the influence of a deep aspect of yourself that's guiding you through life and creating exactly the circumstances that are vitally necessary for you to encounter, experience, know, and respond to?
Equally to the point, can you grasp what it would be like to look around and realize that everybody else is similarly engaged?
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| 2010 03 06 | Casamania
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