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So soon we forget

By Brian Hurt | August 6th, 2010
The first thing to remember is that the main difference between what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we did to Tokyo, or what Japan did to China (see "The Rape of Nanking") or the Philippines, or what we did to Dresden, or what Germany did to Coventry or Leningrad or Moscow, or what Russia did to Berlin, etc., etc. was how cheap it was.
Posted in Classic, Politics | 1 Comment

Steve Yegge is an idiot

By Brian Hurt | July 28th, 2010
And to think, I used to have respect for the man. Then he goes and posts this pile of fetid dingo kidneys. I'm going to explain in detail why ditching private (and, by extension, public) is bad. Obviously this needs to be spelled out, because a lot of programmers- including Steve Yegge - don't get it.
Posted in Open Source, Programming Language Punditry | 47 Comments

Dear deficit “hawks”: bite me

By Brian Hurt | July 26th, 2010
Here's the problem I have with the recent furor over the deficit and the debt: my long term memory still works.
Posted in Politics | 6 Comments

Today’s Thought

By Brian Hurt | July 8th, 2010
"Great tools are what you get when your language sucks."
Posted in Programming Language Punditry | 13 Comments

Today’s busines idea someone else should do

By Brian Hurt | June 25th, 2010
The thought that just occurred to me was that someone needs to apply the hard lessons learned in internet social media, especially aggregation sites like Slashdot, Reddit, and Digg, to scientific publishing.
Posted in Software Business | 3 Comments