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talboito on Two simple techniques for more portable Django projects

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talboito on Haskell' (pronounced "Haskell Prime") will be a relatively conservative refinement of Haskell 98.

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"How often will that "'" be mistaken for a typo?" - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on Haskell' (pronounced "Haskell Prime") will be a relatively conservative refinement of Haskell 98.

August 10 at 9:10 am - Link

"How often will that "'" be mistaken for a typo?" - Andrew Talbot

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Obama-McCain Matchup: Blowout Or Trench Warfare?

July 28 at 12:18 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The reason the contest will be so close is because of what we call 'ballot box racism.' We estimate that about 11 or 12 percent of voters who would otherwise vote for Obama will not vote for him because he is black. Our forecasting model, if uncorrected for the race factor, predicts a landslide for Obama. But once the 'racial cost' is corrected for, we get a bare Obama majority (about 50.6% of the two-party popular vote)."" - Vox via Bookmarklet

this has been the unspoken factor into why Obama is not leading McCain by larger numbers. - Ruth Ferguson

Some new <a href="http://people.iq.harvard.edu/%...">research</a> indicates the the so-called Bradley effect is somewhat less of a factor than it once had been in the late 80's/early 90's. - Andrew Talbot

srsly that big in 2008? - Duncan Riley

Jeff Jarvis posted an entry on BuzzMachine

Obama, ouch

July 18 at 1:56 pm - Link

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Krauthammer is right this time - he is opinionated, but he's smart too. The question is how high Obama puts himself and how much it affects what he does and how he does it. - Ben Parr

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krauthammer is so infuriating because he is probably the smartest and most articulate neocon. Damn him for not making life easy. - Ron Mwangaguhunga

Charles Krauthammer's wheelchair can go from 0-60 in under 6 seconds. I swear. - Andrew Feinberg

Like all the other neocons, Charles Krauthammer is a bundle of hysterical ethnic paranoia and eminently predictable Pavlovian responses to every issue. Not in any sense a creative thinker. All the neocons are interchangeable clones of one another, pushing a few primitive propaganda themes. Donald Graham and Fred Hiatt have done enormous damage to the quality of the Washington Post by loading up the paper with this cruft. - Sean McBride

Krauthammer in April 03':" Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem."http://www.aei.org/events/filt... - Andrew Talbot

Charles Krauthammer on the Iraq War: Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03: "The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside liberals, and a few people here in Washington." Brilliant! Perhaps Krauthammer can explain precisely what Americans bought for several trillion dollars in Iraq, apart from handing a strategic victory to Muslim fundamentalists in Iran on a silver platter. Dumb as a rock. (Quite a few people predicted the real outcome of the Iraq War long before it started -- it wasn't difficult.) - Sean McBride

Btw, Krauthammer is monumentally spanked in the comments on this blog entry -- check it out for yourself. :) - Sean McBride

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Gallery: Fire Arts Festival Opens in Blaze of Glory

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The BART Conductor stopped the train so we could get a good view of this on the way home last night. - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on A linguistic misunderstanding is at the root of many disagreements over different licensing philosophies, in particular BSD vs. GPL.

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"The positive/negative terminology may seem loaded, but the terms are fairly well defined philosophically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N..." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on A linguistic misunderstanding is at the root of many disagreements over different licensing philosophies, in particular BSD vs. GPL.

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talboito on A linguistic misunderstanding is at the root of many disagreements over different licensing philosophies, in particular BSD vs. GPL.

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David Recordon posted a message on Twitter

“Hoping the measure passes in Nov to help fund a high-speed train throughout California. Visualization are slick! http://tinyurl.com/28lwvu”

July 6 at 6:03 pm - Link

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I really want high-speed trains in California! SF to Palo Alto in 20 minutes, Stockton in 1.5 hours, and LA in 2.5 hours! - David Recordon

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*think* sf to palo alto 20 minutes? that would be a regional train over here. not high speed train. *g* LA though was several hundred kilometers, right? that is several hours even in the land of high speed trains. ;) - Nicole Simon

Considering we currently have *heavy rail* as the fastest option, I'd be happy! - David Recordon

LA to SF in under 3 hours? Yes please. I would be up there a lot more frequently if that was the case. - Tsega Dinka

And for under $100! - David Recordon

558.68 km in 3 hours should be doable. and as LAX is my fav airport for entry with my current airline, may I add decent inclusion of the airports into that network as well? ;) - Nicole Simon

Is a high speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco a truly pressing need for our state, or is it the equivalent to another political movement mentioned in a Doonesbury cartoon - "free cheeseburgers for the elderly"? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

While I can't talk about the full run from SF to LA, I do know that I'd ride it throughout the Bay Area and to Stockton. Traffic is horrible, gas is expensive, and modern trains are quite comfortable. Given how air travel is going I'd expect a slightly longer train ride between LA and SF would be pretty popular since it wouldn't mean stripping in an airport, you'd have internet, and even nice food. - David Recordon

The link above claims SF -> LA is 2.5 hrs. Yes, rail is a pressing need all over the US, not just California. - Andrew Talbot

german trains do 250 km/h tops, so that works out good if you can get the same technology. plus being on a train has the advantage of not having to go to the airport with checkin and everything - and usually trainstations are in the middle of the city. problem: the whole culture is build up on the car, then again you have to start somewhere. I know that I as a tourist traveller appreciate more public transportation, and be it just in CA. - Nicole Simon

& I'd even say it's a pressing need all over North America...I can't even get a passenger train from Winnipeg to Minneapolis. Best I can do is take a bus from Wpg to Fargo, then catch the Empire Builder coming through Fargo at 2am. Not surprisingly, I've never done that. - Trent Olson

Yes, you do have a longer way to go. ;) I did take a trainride from L.A. to San Diego once - it was not only the most amusing train drive ever because tht thing was as fast as our slowest regional trains are when they are coming out of the train station. usually I get so motion sick I cannot do anything while travelling - that thing was so slow I was even able to work. ;) - Nicole Simon

My parents live in LA, so I've driven down I5 from SF pretty often over the years. Given the amount of traffic I've seen and our current oil situation, I would say it's a pretty pressing need. Why wouldn't we want to have a far more fuel efficient means of travel available? - Chris White

There are some things we can learn from Europe on this one. Some of our cars are twice the size of a European car. And, yes, they have a lot more mass transit there. - David Risley

@Nicole, high-speed and regional are considered disjoint concepts? It this part of some special language spoken by European train bureaucrats? - j1m

That looks pretty sweet ... too bad I don't live in CA ... this would be a good excuse to get a place out there though! - Nick O'Neill

That *is* pretty sweet. The train is going to go walking distance to almost all the places I go in CA - SF. Sacto, Redwood City, Bakersfield, and University City (UCSD). Nice. - Gabe Wachob via twhirl

j1m different trains require different technology which in our case is existing and with history, but you would not need to redo that. for example the area I am living in is one of the last to receive over train electricity meaning that due to that my town is only since recently part of the very fast train network. imagine caltrain suddenly also having to run with high speed trains - you would need to vamp up not only the trains but so much more. :) - Nicole Simon

j1m but mainly because even the slowest of trains here are fast compared to whatever is Amtrak. ;) - Nicole Simon

Andrew Talbot commented on a story on Reddit

talboito on You read it here first: Flash Memory == Adobe Flash!

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"I'm pretty sure Apple spokespeople's main task is to not make comments. They probably didn't even listen to the question." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on You read it here first: Flash Memory == Adobe Flash!

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"I'm pretty sure Apple spokespeople's main task is to not make comments. They probably didn't even listen to the question." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on You read it here first: Flash Memory == Adobe Flash!

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"I'm pretty sure Apple spokespeople's main task is to not make comments. They probably didn't even listen to the question." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on You read it here first: Flash Memory == Adobe Flash!

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"I'm pretty sure Apple spokespeople's main task is to not make comments. They probably didn't even listen to the question." - Andrew Talbot

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Net Impact

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The math remains the math. - Andrew Talbot

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"Was a more poorly written article at all possible? I think not." - Andrew Talbot

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"Was a more poorly written article at all possible? I think not." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on Nepal ready to abolish monarchy

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"Was a more poorly written article at all possible? I think not." - Andrew Talbot

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How to Be Counterintuitive

May 27 at 12:17 pm - Link

The New Republic in all its ignominy. - Andrew Talbot

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abu muqawama: Orientalism, reconsidered

May 19 at 10:04 pm - Link

broken link! - edythe

weird, thanks for point that out - Andrew Talbot

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Happy Birthday Nature Neuroscience

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Free access to Nature Neuroscience's most cited papers. - Andrew Talbot

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May 15 at 4:32 pm - Link

"I use [htmlunit](http://htmlunit.sourceforge.ne...) for that type of thing. Its a headless browser written in java. Includes a javascript interpreter that sorta works most of the time." - Andrew Talbot

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"I use [htmlunit](http://htmlunit.sourceforge.ne...) for that type of thing. Its a headless browser written in java. Includes a javascript interpreter that sorta works most of the time." - Andrew Talbot

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"I use [htmlunit](http://htmlunit.sourceforge.ne...) for that type of thing. Its a headless browser written in java. Includes a javascript interpreter that sorta works most of the time." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on Paul Graham on the lies we grew up being told

May 13 at 11:09 pm - Link

"So many choices among unacceptable forms of disagreement, so little time. I'll just leave it at: "boring"." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on Paul Graham on the lies we grew up being told

May 13 at 11:09 pm - Link

"So many choices among unacceptable forms of disagreement, so little time. I'll just leave it at: "boring"." - Andrew Talbot

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talboito on Paul Graham on the lies we grew up being told

May 13 at 11:09 pm - Link

"So many choices among unacceptable forms of disagreement, so little time. I'll just leave it at: "boring"." - Andrew Talbot