Tumbly goodness, page 26

1. Unsurprisingly enough, it seems the vast majority of Afgans have a favorable view of U.S.-led forces. Via normblog.

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2. NYC says all your A1c are belong to us, the Liberty Belles object. Film at 11.

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3. Scientists discover one in twelve Irishmen are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages.

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4. Someone's released a PHP OpenID library. Now I need to look into how hard it would be to plug it in to Eventful.

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5. Don't start a business if you can't explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain.

   — Joel Spolsky

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6. I conjecture there is a connection between the strength of the "state as parent" structuring metaphor, strong executives, tryanny, and war.

   Take it further: Part of civilizing (quite literally) our minds is weakening the strength of this metaphor. The fact that classical liberalism—based on the metaphor of the merchant/consumer relationship—cannot be fitted into the Lakovian schema is evidence of its of its psychological foreignness, but moral superiority.

   — Will Wilkinson, The State as Parent

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7. Just because you're writing AJAX code doesn't mean you can ignore HTTP status codes.

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8. As the psychologist Tom Gilovich has suggested, someone who wants to believe a proposition tends to ask, "Can I believe it?" In contrast, someone who wants to deny its truth tends to ask "Must I believe it?"

   — Tom Gilovich, via Cafe Hayek

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9. Meet RHIT's new president.

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10. asdf-upgrade is a handy way to upgrade your asdf-installable libraries. Hat tip to Bill Clementson.

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11. A collection of useful tools for flickr users.

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12. Europe gives 65 cents — just over half a euro — to the average poverty-stricken African in aid in a year, whereas a surplus cow in Europe gets 848 euros a year.

    via Marginal Revolution

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13. Programming as Design sounds a lot like Richard Gabriel's MFA in Software

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14. Does it bother you that <sup/> and <sub/> affect your line height? Style them with line-height: 0; and you'll be good to go.

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15. Arnold Kling's wild hypotheses in economcis and political economy.

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16. In #emacs:

    1. <kensanata> maybe you have the wrong mental model of how emacs operates.
    2. <kensanata> for example, you cannot "open a new buffer in utf-8"
    3. <kensanata> this will lead you astray, since you will make experiments with emacs that result in things failing.
    4. <johnsu01> in emacs, the buffer opens YOU in utf-8.
    5. <kensanata> lol

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17. Morale, motivation, and momentum are the most important software development tools you have.

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18. Tim Bray will be speaking at ETech this year. I hope Brian lets us go.

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19. When teenagers' hobbyist blogs (short for "Web logs") have better code than brand-new Web sites, somebody's doing something wrong. And that somebody is you, the developer.

    — Failed Redesigns

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20. SBCL self-hosts on Windows now.

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