Monthly Archives: December 2007

How To De-C++-ify Your Java: EnumSet

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 30, 2007

If you’re still on Java (like me), and you’ve got some enumerations and/or bit flags kicking around (like me), then you really want to know about EnumSet. I just found out about them, and I thought I’d share.

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Take who’s power away?

By Brian Hurt | Published: December 29, 2007

There’s an important aspect in the healthcare debate that I think has gotten, not overlooked, but less attention than it deserves. And that is the issue of power. Now, obviously, the Democrats seek to gain political power via health care. Or, at least I wish (as a Democrat) that the Democrats would seek to gain [...]

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Inside the Library Architect’s Mind: Stream-of-Consciousness on JConch

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 29, 2007

(This is a stream-of-consciousness blog post: I’m just going to spew whatever comes into my head. If you haven’t taken a look at it before, see JConch on GoogleCode to get an idea what I’m talking about. I’m on SVN revision 77 at the moment.)

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I think my brain just exploded

By Brian Hurt | Published: December 28, 2007

Haskell is making a real strong bid to wrestle the coveted title of “Brian’s Favorite Language” away from the current title holder (Ocaml, in case you haven’t guessed). The thing that just happened was that I wanted to find some pythogorean triples- you know, groups of three numbers x, y, and z such that x2 [...]

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Calling All Non-US Readers

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 28, 2007

Brian and I have been discussing health care over at “Take Their Power Away“, and so we got to talking about some foreign health care systems, and we hit a point that’s kind of interesting. I was wondering if those people from outside the US (particularly those Germans who seem to like this blog so [...]

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