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Matthew Yglesias says Ronald Reagan. Mark Schmitt says George W Bush. Josh Marshall says Geore W Bush. I’m going to go with the elder statesmen here and say George W Bush. Forget Democrats. I think that after Reagan’s eight years in office, most Republicans and indepents would have said that America was better off. Something [...]

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I’m linking to Nicholas Lemann’s New Yorker profile of Bill O’Reilly just so I can republish this one bit:

Mainly, O’Reilly, like every political talk-show host with a big following, is a populist, who, in his beyond-irony way, is a rich, middle-aged white guy aligned with the ruling party, and who has the guts [...]

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I’ve been going back and reading the stuff I wrote about Iraq in the leadup to the invasion. Here’s a link to my post on Bush’s speech announcing the start of the war from March 17, 2003.

I wish I had been wrong when I wrote this:

I’ve given both sides of the debate [...]

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I just started using the migrations feature of Ruby on Rails. Migrations are a way to capture changes to a database schema so that you can apply them without destroying data, and so that you can roll them back if you made a mistake. Before I understood how they worked, I thought they were basically [...]

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In case you missed my initial announcement, I’ve stareted a link blog called Of Interest. That seems to be where I’m spending most of my energy currently, mainly because it gives me an opportunity to link out to a lot of the weblogs I read without having to write posts here at rc3.org (which feel [...]

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This morning I decided I could no longer wait for the official universal builds of Firefox and Thunderbird, so I downloaded the unofficial builds here. I’m actually sticking with Camino for now, because it felt a bit faster than Firefox in my 10 second trial run. Thunderbird was, for some reason, one of the [...]

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When I started my new job last year, one of the most exciting things about it was that we would be writing several applications from the ground up, and that it would be my job (in part) to decide which platforms to use to write these applications. I’ve been working for roughly five years writing [...]

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The MacBook Pro is hot, and by that, I don’t mean that it’s the subject of much lust and attention. I mean that you could use it as a portable camp stove. After using mine for a couple of weeks, that’s my one big complaint. It’s fast, it has worked like a charm, and the [...]

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John Udell recaps a talk at ETech arguing that what the world needs is not standards documents but rather standard implementations. In other words, rather than writing a specification for the Atom protocol, in an ideal world there would be standard, open source implementations of libraries to produce and consume Atom documents.

It’s an interesting idea [...]

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This is a somewhat obscure Ruby on Rails question, but I thought I’d ask it anyway. Is it the case that the code that reads test fixtures into your database ignores any settings you apply to your models? It sure looks to me like if you point a model at a table name [...]

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