Monthly Archives: September 2007

An Excellent Retraction: Ladies Do Like Industrial Music

From Industrial Radio Podcast #20: I gotta make sure I make this announcement: The ladies dig industrial music. The women like Industrial Radio Podcast. And all of them like the host, Jon. And guys, don’t say otherwise, because they will kick your ass. I made that statement, I don’t know where I heard that from, [...]

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Interesting Post on Gnosticism and Modernism

Sharrukin’s Palace » The Most Influential Conspiracy Theory You’ve Never Heard Of This very interesting post traces the history of “Gnosticism” (see the post for why I put that in quotes), and its connection to modernism. Keep this post in mind…I’m putting together some thoughts about modernism and reactionary calls for a New Enlightenment.

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Additional Evidence That Concurrency Is an Increasing Problem

Coding Horror: Choosing Dual or Quad Core Go. Read. Be Enlightened. Understand why the functional revolution is inevitable.

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Removing Comments and Whitespace to Optimize Websites

Another podcast that I listen to is WebDev Radio. One thing that was advocated over there is to strip out the whitespace and comments in order to save bandwidth, and thereby speeding up the web page. In particular, he advocates using a PHP function to apply a regular expression to shrink all whitespace down to [...]

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Relevancy: Venkat’s Timing Couldn’t Be Better

While I talk about functionality vs. code, Venkat gets into “relevancy” in software development, and demonstrates that there’s a lot of code which isn’t business functionality.

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