Monthly Archives: June 2004

Nil mortifi, sine lucre. == No killing without pa…

Nil mortifi, sine lucre. == No killing without payment.
If you haven’t spent some quality time at everything2.com, get your hide over there and soak up the url-light.
I’m not sure what is geekier, that I
like phrases in latin
like terry prachett
used “==” to mean equals
CowboyNeal*
The value of a human life (thing)@Everything2.com
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Just got back from a tap jam at the BCCA. I’ve …

Just got back from a tap jam at the BCCA.
I’ve gone a few times, and think I danced better at some of them, but this time was really fun, not leastwise because I ran into my friend Matt who I had neglected seeing in quite a while, and he knew many folks there around our [...]

Writing code is like flying a helicopter…sounds …

Writing code is like flying a helicopter…sounds like the start of a bad, or only slightly dirty joke. I’ll have to think of a good punchline.

Orthogonality and the DRY Principle: “We’ve all worked on systems where you make one small change over here, and another problem pops out over there. So you go over [...]

Nice to see JPMC/Bank One getting on the F/OSS tra…

Nice to see JPMC/Bank One getting on the F/OSS train.
It should surprise no one to see financial services companies getting on board new technology – they have the need and the resources to use all the good tech.
Open Source Working Group

If only this fable were a children’s book so I cou…

If only this fable were a children’s book so I could jump start the indoctrination of my unborn children

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