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Will Faught
February 2015
The Geneva Convention And Medics
According to the Geneva Convention, knowingly firing at a medic wearing clear insignia is a war crime.
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September 2011
A video interview of Dr. David Card. It’s so fun finding stuff about people you know!
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I just stumbled across a seattlepi.com article about Dr. David Card, who was my primary care doctor in Seattle: On the first day of school at St. Francis University in Pennsylvania, where he would graduate third in his class on his way to med school at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, a crowd of students watched from a window as Card wheeled up to a staircase leading down to his classroom.
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July 2011
James Surowiecki: The truth is that the United States doesn’t need, and shouldn’t have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. There’s no debt limit in the Constitution. And, if Congress really wants to hold down government debt, it already has a way to do so that doesn’t risk economic chaos—namely, the annual budgeting process. The only reason we need to lift the debt ceiling, after all, is to pay for spending that Congress has already authorized.
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The Rise And Fall Of The Independent Developer
Rings true to me: And, of course, only large companies and publishers can bear these [patent and copyright infringement] costs. My fear is that It’s [sic] only a matter of time before developers find the risks and expenses prohibitive and retreat to the safety of a larger organization. We’ll be going back to square one. Over the years many of the top selling apps have been created by independent developers, starting with Steve Demeter and Trism at the App Store launch, and continuing to this day with titles like Tiny Wings by Andreas Illiger.
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June 2011
Good interview. Interesting thoughts on the future of gaming.
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Bed Bugs In A Wooden Bed Frame, Head Board, And Box Spring
Gross! I had no idea it could be this bad. Makes me shiver thinking about sleeping in that bed.
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Slipping Shoelaces? Crooked Bows?
Apparently, I’ve been tying my shoes incorrectly all my life. I’ve been tying the granny knot, which comes untied easily and tends to be oriented toe-to-heel instead of side-to-side. I tie my shoelaces right over left, then right loop over left loop. Fortunately, it’s easy to correct: reverse the first step. For me, I have to do left over right, then right loop over left loop. Do they take away your kindergarten diploma for this?
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Steve Jobs Presents Ring Campus
Steve Jobs humbly presents to the Cupertino City Council Apple’s plans to build a new Cupertino campus. The campus would be just a few blocks away from their current one. There would be only one large, ring-shaped building (the new infinite loop), four or five stories tall. Lots of parking would be provided underground and in a nearby parking structure. 80% of the area, including the circular area inside the loop, would be landscaped, and the number of trees would double from about 3,000 to about 6,000.
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May 2011
Paul Graham: Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can’t save bad people. It’s very dangerous to let anyone fly under you. If you have the cheapest, easiest product, you’ll own the low end. And if you don’t, you’re in the crosshairs of whoever does. But negative lessons are just as valuable as positive ones. Perhaps even more valuable: it’s hard to repeat a brilliant performance, but it’s straightforward to avoid errors.
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A Review Of The 1977 Turing Award Lecture By John Backus
By Edsger W. Dijkstra. I’ve never seen shit talking in scholarly criticism before: If that indication is correct, his objection is less against von Neumann programs than against his own clumsy way of trying to understand them. Some of that classic Dijkstra charm.
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