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Posts from February 2009

Always consider the future when writing code…

I’ve been writing a LOT of code these days.. it’s great actually, I have loads of responsibly and freedom.. and a paycheck, which is good in this depression.
I just ran across this wiki about the Newton 2010 date problem (Props to StevenF) – after 18:48:31 on January 5, 2010 a NewtonScript int variable overflows, and [...]


Daring Fireball: Untitled Document Syndrome

Untitled Document Syndrome
The key in Gruber’s argument is this: 
And those of you who object to these generalizations — those of you shaking your heads and saying to yourselves, No, I very much do want to specify by hand the file name and location in the hierarchical directory structure for every bit of data on my system — [...]


Bush to speak in Calgary

Bush to speak in Calgary
Looks as those President Bush has chosen Calgary as the first place he’s going to give a post-president speech. I wonder what the reception is going to be like?


Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek Voices – Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com

Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek Voices – Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com
Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it’s Canada. In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada’s banking system the healthiest in the [...]