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Don't mess with Texas, they reserve the right to re-write history.  I shudder to think what will be written and taught to Texas students about former President Bush.  Should make for great fiction.

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I, for one, welcome our new shiny everyday operating system.

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Zed Shaw's post titles Programmers Need to Learn Statistics..., although a bit incendiary, is right on.  I learned a few things from it, most of all that I should have taken advanced statistics in college.  From now on I'm going to make sure I pay closer attention to how I measure, compare, and convey performance numbers.

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"If software patents had been commonplace in 1980, I would not have been able to create [TeX], nor would I probably have ever thought of doing it, nor can I imagine anyone else doing so." - Donald Knuth

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New pearly white teeth straight from your own stem cells.

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I switched to Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) a week ago, I'd been using OpenDNS prior to that.  I have to say that it's fast and I've experienced no issues.  OpenDNS has a lot of extra features not available from Google (yet?) so if you need those features you should stay with OpenDNS.  The terms of service for Google DNS also seem reasonable despite the obvious potential for knowing a bit too much.  "Do no harm."  Let's hope so, for now I have no reason not to believe that to be the case.  This is another valuable service from Google, thanks!

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Amazon has an interesting way to keep its cloud instances from sitting idle.  Essentially they provide an auction market for under utilized resources.

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Rich, you do stunning work.  Clojure's value is immeasurable, and benefits everyone.  Keep it up, and I'll continue to donate at least $100 each year to help make it happen.  Thank you.

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A fascinating look at the impact programming language has on community development.  My only complaint is that the data was only collected from GitHub projects.  Clearly this wasn't an academically rigorous examination, but something more driven by personal curiosity, which is fine.  What's interesting is the level of response to simple analysis, it suggests that there is a demand for such aggregate study of programming languages.  Using GitHub's API was an easy and effective way to bound the problem, but likely resulted in somewhat statistically skewed data.  Too bad more of the hosted distributed version control systems don't track the same information or have similar APIs for accessing it.  Someone could always mine the data from all the projects on these sites and create a central repository for further analysis...  anyone?

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I am, are you?

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