I've been watching Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles on Hulu (best legit media site ever!), and I decided I needed to rant (mildly).
Even ignoring the whole problematic issue of time travel (central to the plot)), and the generally poor plot line inherited from the Terminator movies (whatcha gonna do …
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Google for pretencious. What an odd first result!
(I was looking for the correct spelling. Turns out it's a 't', not a 'c' or an 's', before the ious.)
--titus
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The decision of python-dev to deprecate bsddb has left us in a bit of a pickle (hah!) over in the pygr project. We're looking for a replacement for bsddb for default storage of infrequently- (or never-) changed pickled Python objects. Some of the parameters under consideration are:
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I don't suppose anyone knows of a low- or medium-intensity pickup frisbee game somewhere within walking distance of Waikiki...?
If so, drop me a note -- thanks!
--titus
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Posted by Bill Mill on 2009-01-04 at 09:08.
E-mail Larry O'brien and ask him, his email's on the front page …read more
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(This blog post is a long, rambling retrospective on my recent undergrad comp-sci course at Michigan State U., newly renamed to "Concepts in Database-backed Web Programming".)
I set out this term to teach a CS class in the way I would have wanted it taught when I was an undergrad …
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Here's a summary of the e-mail responses I got to my lazyweb query re code review and git.
A few people (Paul Nasrat and Jeff Balogh) pointed out that Review Board supports git. So I may try that.
Charles McCreary has had good experience with Rietveld, but I don't think …
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The latest hot shit idea for making a protein-protein interaction database leaves me lukewarm.
A few months ago I met with a genomics group, and we had a back-and-forth about genome annotation. The conversation went something like this:
them: "We have to improve the tools for annotating un-annotated genes!" me …read more
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