http://www.awptimus.com remix Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:40:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror normally has good posts, but his last post is perhaps one of the most offensive posts I have ever read. Irrational posts from irrational bloggers are one thing, and irrational posts from rational bloggers are another. But an irrational post about rationality from a ... http://www.awptimus.com/2009/09/17/rational-pt1/ I just bought four Ayn Rand novels and a Barack Obama bookmark at Barnes and Noble. No one so far appreciates the irony. http://www.awptimus.com/2009/03/06/no-one-appreciates-good-subtle-irony/ As I write this, President Barack Obama is addressing congress. Towards the beginning he blamed our failure as a nation and as individuals to save as the reason we are in this "crisis." Then he started talking about the whole economy being reliant on our borrowing from banks, and said we cannot ... http://www.awptimus.com/2009/02/24/unintelligible-dichotomy/ Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Michael Bloomberg ringing in the new year. *sigh* Happy 2009 http://www.awptimus.com/2009/01/01/pessimism/ A new favorite site of mine is The Daily WTF. It's chock full of hilarious stories: some almost anyone can understand, and others only experienced IT professionals can. This gem is particularly amusing: It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that certain programmers will go to solve the simplest of ... http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/31/making-the-simple-complicated/ Electronic gaming devices typically have a "payout" setting. This is a setting that prevents a machine from paying out until a certain number of plays has been reached. My hand-eye co-ordination is pretty good; I grew up in the era of video games. I have played the Stacker game a ... http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/30/probability-question/ I'm watching a program on the Science Channel called "Planet Earth: The Future." I usually try to avoid these shows because they're a flood of contextless statistics and "experts" who know nothing about the subject they're actually discussing. For example, right now Dr Sandra Postel: "Author and Global Water Analyst" is discussing ... http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/25/sustainable-development-pt-2/ Bryan Caplan writes: "It has to stop sometime" was as true when our population was 10,000 as it is today. But as far as we can tell from the simultaneous rise of population and per-capita income, "sometime" is a long way off. I love the show Arrested Development. In one episode ... http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/22/sustainable-development/ I am fixing a database program written in Access. Here is a slice of VB 6 code Exit_Function: Exit Function Worst coding ever. You can just type Exit Function, but instead, the author made it so you type GoTo Exit_Function to perform an Exit Function. Worst coding. Ever. http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/17/worst-coding-ever/ <style type="text/css">.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} </style><p class="msnbcLinks">Visit msnbc.com for <a mce_href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/" xhref="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">Breaking News</a>, ... http://www.awptimus.com/2008/12/17/a-disturbing-and-touching-story/