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Archive for May, 2002

Wednesday, May 29th, 2002

Re: coding style — the holy wars:

This whole thing is just plain silly. I have been programming in Java since 1996 and have written god-knows-how-many thousands of classes and I have never had a problem that this “standard” is supposed to fix. Just stick to the Sun recommendations and let programmers worry about more […]

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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

Dude, back in highschool, our man Gunn Salelanonda was fuckin’ busy movin’ computer shit on USEnet.

Of course, as with others, there’s always a gem to be found in the USEnet archives:

From: gunn salelanonda
Subject: W: I’d like a baby hedgehog
Newsgroups: austin.forsale
Date: 1995/08/16

My highschool russian class would like a baby hedgehog.
Does anyone have any expectant hogs? Or […]

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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

Continental Players
“It’s been the same for the last 3 days…” –Charles
It seems the friends are all over the place: Mason sent me an e-mail from Cote d’Ivorie:

I am here in Abijan, Cote D’Ivoire.

We worked on our tans and gourged ourselves on fish. Abijan is cool…They’ve got good croissants and real coffee too. In any case […]

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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

XML IN PRACTICE - Fractals, Self Similarity, and the Whimsical Boundaries of XML Documents:

I find looking at a tag structure without the tag names visible a humbling experience that is good for the soul. It shows in stark relief the futility of the boundaries we create in data modeling. We create a boundary whenever we […]

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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

XML IN PRACTICE - A Roller Coaster Ride for the Mind:

At a higher level of abstraction, its all-just relationships between atomic units of data, some of which are also relationships.

(Found linked from Cafe con Leche.)

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