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Proposal: One-sentence News

Jun 27, 2008

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Stop luring people on your trite news blogs with misleading titles. Sure, a mysterious or provocative title is a good way to get people interested, but it in worst case makes your blog (and you) look uninformed. Especially, when the first sentence of the news item doesn’t explain the inaccuracies of the main headline.
News should [...]

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Thrustlikes

Jun 18, 2008

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Probably my most favorite video games are thrustlike games — games that relate to Thrust similarly how Rogue relates to roguelikes. Here are some of the games I consider the best examples of this genre.

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Blog Experiment: More SQL and Text Matching

Apr 25, 2008

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In Viewer2, there is a feature that allows fast text searches on huge databases with tens of thousands of filenames. Here’s how I did it.

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Blog Experiment: Desaturating and resizing images

Apr 22, 2008

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More from the muse called Referer:.

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Blog Experiment: Comparing text and SQL

Apr 20, 2008

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A lot of visitors come from search engines to my page about a little hack I made that acts as a very thin layer between text files and SQLite. Most of the search queries are something akin to “compare text files in SQL”, “SQL text compare” or other SQL and text comparison related searches. So, I’m going to write what I know about the subject.

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