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True story. Chris Hayes, of MSNBC, as a young reporter, covered the Maine State Fair. In Maine they grow potatoes, lots of potatoes, so they have a Potato Queen. He interviewed her, and fell in love with her. He asked her father for her hand in marriage, but the father rejected the offer with scorn. She, the daughter, was the potato queen, and Hayes was just a commentator.

True Story.

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I used to work at a company that did distributed QA. Other people’s tests would run on your desktop. It worked surprisingly well. But occasionally a test of some audio resource would play on your speakers “The discrete cosine is a real, discrete version of the fast Fourier transform.”

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Who would have thought it. A brothel in Watertown. Cambridge I can see. What’s next, strip clubs in Belmont, Mitt Romney’s home town?

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The Puritans were a small sect, just looking for the religious freedom to punish the best majority of people who didn’t believe the Puritans’ theology. Their notion of “religious freedom” is similar to the U.S. Catholic bishops’ notion. It’s a violation of religious freedom when people can make their own choices, and don’t have to obey a hierarchy.

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It can have many other deleterious effects as well. I also smoked marijuana once. Now I’m old, and a boomer.

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I used to work on a debugger. It was called TotalView, and it was a really stellar multiprocess, multithread debugger. You could debug programs with thousands of cores and threads. You could type real C++ code to inspect values, inject code into a running process, force the CPU to run at a given line, like a magic goto. But we had a saying “printf wins again”. Sometimes you just can’t get the debugger to tell you what you need.

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The first podcast was Christopher Lydon’s Radio Open Source. The term podcast was created to describe it. It’s still going strong. If you like ideas, books, music, vaguely leftish politics you might like it.

It has nothing to do with open source software.

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No. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.

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Russians used to go to the sea through Latvia, during the Czarist times. They often got sea sick. A case of any kind of gastric distress became a “trip to Riga.” (I learned this in a Russian language class. It may not be true, but I intend to believe it, regardless if it’s actual truth. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d like to know if I’m being unreasonable. It’s a sign of strength of character )

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