Hating Americans and Cats
Most of the time I think of myself as living in a fairly progressive and enlightened world. I'm fotunate that I work with a set of wonderful people, I can travel all over the world and I'm a member of...
View ArticleMailing List FAIL
I've been thinking a bunch about email and mailing lists recently... about how to deal with them, how to follow the ones that are important but not get drowned in a sea of email noise. I have a...
View ArticleNeed const_map
I love STL containers in C++. They're so much better in general to work with than their C counterparts. The bit that's missing though is an instantiation-time optimized version of map.Take, for...
View Articledeath by a thousand cuts
It's amazing to me what features drive decisions when choosing a technology. In my case, it's a clock applet, but let me set a little bit of a context first.I stopped configuring my UI environment...
View ArticleAWSOME has the potential to be really awesome
Earlier today, Canonical announced AWSOMEI'm honestly pretty stoked about it. At the last UDS, Mark Shuttleworth expressed his concern over the state of AWS compatibility and how important it was. As...
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