Paul Graham knows his shit. That’s all I’m sayin’ Those worried about America’s “competitiveness” often suggest spending more on public schools. But perhaps America’s lousy public schools have a hidden advantage. Because they’re so bad, the kids adopt an attitude of waiting for college. I did; I knew I was learning so little that I [...]
A couple days ago I set up an AD domain controller for my workplace. I was faced with a dilemma that I still am not 100% decided on: what should I do about passwords? See, the passwords my users are using right now are really, incredibly, disturbingly weak. They’re short, they’re bad, they’re all-lowercase dictionary [...]
Americans feel that atheists are less trustworthy than all other groups (ABC News), and conservative christians would object to their children marrying muslims or jews substantially less than they would object to their children marrying atheists. Choice bits include: Many of those interviewed saw atheists as cultural elitists, amoral materialists, or given to criminal behavior [...]
This link to a subversion developer’s blog is worthwhile reading. And not just because it’s subversion-related, and about cool topics in version control. It deals with an important issue: the importance of working in the open. See, recently a friend of mine (you know who you are :p) told me he was working on this [...]
Well, it’s hard to pin down the fault on this one… but it’s probably both Christine Yamashita and Abigail Rouse who are to blame. Christine wrote this letter to the editor in the Exponent (which appeared Feb 10th). In it, she makes the horrible, poorly thought-out argument: I mean, think of how the world would [...]
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