As a preliminary, I feel obligated to mention that writing a contract only protects yourself on paper. The real world has such complexity, and with innumerate contingencies, that any contract will fail to enumerate them all. Establishing an explicit contract…
The Problem and Its Solutions If we were living in a perfect world, the business logic would be separated from the presentation layer. Since Rave sits atop a rich GUI, where event handlers can execute arbitrary code, there exists a…
Over the past couple months, I’ve busied myself with finding offers of other employment. IMS (now Zodiac Inflight Innovations) has not given me the career growth that I initially anticipated. I find that, though they are getting better, management has…
I once participated in a debate about copyright issues, taking the position that copyright is an illegitimate concept. I prepared the following notes prior to the debate. Opening Points Historically founded on governmental systems of control Enforcement requires the interference…
I’m writing this post using my new Ergodox keyboard, and having a hell of a time adapting to the lack of a slant between the rows of the keys! For example, I continue to hit the “x” key when I…
Three weeks ago I started a new project that uses nodejs and which forced me to learn some asynchronous programming. I couldn’t quite manage to adapt. Because this was server code that ties together other web services and my…
Looks like some individuals have had nearly the same thoughts as I have on the state of keyboards. The progress looks good. Key64 has some good prototype hardware. The keyboard is short on keys and compensates by having layers bound…
Matt runs the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog. He started off with An Argument: premise: Libertarianism is True observation: most people don’t belive that. conclude: They are either wrong and evil, or they have never heard of it. given people have…
Defense without Government ————— – government bad at doing things, esp complex things (ex: legal systems) am willing to accept government solution when alternative is worse – court and police aren’t complicated enough to require government – define National Defense…
In the past I wanted to have a keyboard, split between both hands, with keys in rows shaped according to how my fingers are able to move. It seems that, as far as recording human speech is concerned, syllable-based chording…