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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Discussion
Today I was reminded that there are two ways to use one’s intelligence during a discussion: One can try to ascertain the truth, or one can try to win the argument. People who routinely engage in the latter are boring, … Continue reading
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Atheists
The least charming aspect of atheism is the smug certainty of many of its adherents that their particular belief system[1] is indicative of, or due to, superior intelligence. It’s a general human tendency to pat oneself on the back for … Continue reading
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Django Project Layout
As a sort-of-followup to my brief remarks of last week, today I’m going to say a few words about how I lay out my Django projects, and how I configure the Apache server to present them. There’s nothing too surprising … Continue reading
Chaff
Back on 1 September, Ebert wrote a post bearing the charming title “Put up or shut up”. It amounted to a call for prominent Republicans to make a great production out of denouncing claims to the effect that Obama was … Continue reading
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Trademark
So, Michael Buffer. The “Let’s get ready to rumble” fight announcer guy. I looked him up on Wikipedia the other day, and it turns out that he’s made quite a tidy living from that schtick. Supposedly, his trademark on that … Continue reading
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OAuth and Export Controls
Reading over the OAuth protocol (RFC 5849), I noticed something a little odd in section 2.1: Since the request results in the transmission of plain text credentials in the HTTP response, the server MUST require the use of a transport-layer … Continue reading
Comments Experiment
I’m going to experiment with enabling comments. Right now, they’re set up s.t. everything has to be manually approved. I’m not sure what my approval criteria will be — probably something along the lines of “I’d enjoy reading that if … Continue reading
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