Monthly Archives: August 2008

Considering Blocking IE6 Completely

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 23, 2008

I’m about to block IE6 completely from my website. If you’re on IE 6 and read my blog, now is your time to scream. Note that RSS readers which don’t report their user-agent of IE 6 would still be allowed, so if you are on IE6 and want to keep reading this blog, I’d suggest [...]

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Feature or Bug, You Decide: Argument Reordering in Groovy

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 19, 2008

[Edit: Some documentation has been added to clarify this issue -- see Groovy's Extended Guide to Method Signatures on the wiki. And now that I've read through the documentation and grok the way that Groovy is intending to work, I actually like it. At first, though, it was a bit of a nasty shock.] Running [...]

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Upped The Recent Post/Popular Post Widget Count

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 12, 2008

In the hopes of spreading some of the love for my posts, I’ve upped the recent post and popular post widget size in the sidebar of the blog.

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The Three (at least) Realities

By Brian Hurt | Published: August 10, 2008

So, Chia’s blog post on reality got me to jell this post, which is kind of sort of an answer to Chia’s post. If you ask me what authors had the largest influence on my philosophy, I’d have to answer with three: Carl Sagan (Cosmos, Contact), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminati Trilogy, Shroedinger’s Cat), and Richard [...]

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Applied Epistemology, or, What Does “Real” Mean Anyway?

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 9, 2008

Anyone who has seen “The Matrix” knows that determining what is “real” is a lot trickier than it seems at first: “The Matrix” demonstrates that our intuitive identification of “real” is easily fooled. Even that conception of “real” where you get people together and see what you can all agree on — called “intersubjective varifiability” [...]

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