Monthly Archives: February 2008

I Made This For All My Perl Peeps

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 29, 2008

(If you don’t get the joke, read this. The industry-standard CPAN Perl library also hosts a bunch of Larry Wall witticisms, right next to The Perl Purity Test. There’s some real software over there, too. Oh, and I mean Peeps1, not peeps.) 1 OMG, my eyes!!!

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Molnau Ousted by the State Senate

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 28, 2008

Molnau ousted by Senate Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau was ousted from her job today by the Minnesota Senate, and Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced that he had appointed her chief assistant to be acting commissioner. Molnau still holds her elected position as lieutenant governor. Shared here, since Brian apparently thinks that nobody is paying attention to [...]

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The Difference Between Occupying and Supporting

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 28, 2008

Inclusion of Iraq and Afghanistan Military Operations Funding with the Consolidated Appropriations Project Vote Smart’s Synopsis: Vote to adopt an amendment to the consolidated appropriations bill (HR 2764) to include $70.00 billion for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Official Title of Legislation: S Amdt 3874 to HR 2764: To make emergency supplemental appropriations for [...]

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Problems with Hash Tables

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 25, 2008

So, for long involved reasons, I’m dealing with hash tables again- and discovering (again) that I don’t like them. Hash tables are beloved by programmers who don’t know their sharp corners and failure modes. “They’re fast!” I hear people say, “Constant time insert, find, and remove- what’s not to like?” A lot, as it turns [...]

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Score One for Obama

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 21, 2008

A lot of people aren’t aware, but there was an effort by the Bush administration to protect communications companies from being held accountable for committing illegal acts, assuming they were committing the illegal acts in the course of trying to make the government happy. So, in other words, they were being given permission to do [...]

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