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Stavros!

This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. This guy is perfect.

Note the copyright. :)

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Bitstrips!

I love Bitstrips! LOVE! I could go on and on... but I'll focus on just one thing... messages. When you send someone a message, it's a comic! Dude that so rocks.

For example:

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We Don't Need No Steenking Retraining

I love this.

The Almost Perfect Food

For one brief moment, I had found the perfect food... Fior di nocciola. It's basically organic nutella.

I read the nutrition label... calories per serving... 140. Servings per container... 1. ONE?! You mean this ENTIRE 12oz JAR OF CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT GOODNESS is only 140 calories?!?!?!

You could eat like 10 jars a day and still lose weight! BLISS!!!

But it was not to be. Then I read the serving size. Those *#&#%$@ people screwed up their nutrition label. Yes it says 1 serving per container, but 1 serving is only 28 grams... hellooooo there are 350 grams in the jar!

NOOOOoooooooooo!

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Love That Mediterrian Food!

The Day The Routers Died

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

Classic.

Little Bobby Drop Table

This is awesome.

What do you do when...

...your OS thinks your browser crashed, but your browser doesn't think so and is working perfectly fine... ?

I guess I'll just leave that dialog around til I'm done with Safari.

Ah, Language Wars...

...makes me pine for the heady days of emacs vs. vi.

Anyway, I've been tasked with trying to prove that development environment X is a better choice than development environment Y. Along the way, there will also be discussion about whether database system A is better than database system B, so forth, and so on. In the ensuing discussion, we will have to visit the topic of whether "XML databases" (whatever that means) and XSLT are good ideas.

In researching other people's opinions about XSLT, we came across some old blog posts here and here. The first makes the claim that XSLT is the spawn of Satan, with which I wholeheartedly agree. But more amusing to me are the comments, especially from XSLT proponents.

Why is it that XSLT proponents claim that one must "get the functional programming mindset" before one can get XSLT? I think this is a tool they use to postpone the inevitable. The inevitable being a realization that XSLT is actually just a PhD student's wet dream, and not a programming language. But it is used to deflect discussion until, presumably, the anti-XSLT party has come up to the intellectual level of the pro-XSLT party. Since so few programmers are prepared to discuss functional programming, the odds are that the real discussion is averted.

So I would like to say this: why would "getting the functional programming mindset" convince anyone that it's a good idea to write hundreds of lines of syntactically excruciating code to accomplish what one or two lines of Lisp or Haskell would accomplish?

The claim seems to be that in some parallel universe of which most programmers are unaware, this actually makes sense. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no such universe exists. Could be just me.

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