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Yearly Archives: 2011
Duke Nukem, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle
One of my favorite recent books I’ve read is the tome on human societies, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”. In it, there is a section examining domesticable aminals. The author walks through the observation that although … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Is ThreadStatic a leaky abstraction?
Reading Ayende’s post on integrating Rhino Service Bus and RavenDB, one thing that caught my eye was the use of the ThreadStatic attribute to control the lifecycle of a private field: One of the things that really bothers me about … Continue reading
Posted in Dependency Injection, Design
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A grand experiment
Flash has crashed for the (hopefully) last time. I’m going to run a little experiment. I’m uninstalling Flash and see how much it affects browsing experience for say, one month. I suspect that most experiences will be fine on Chrome, … Continue reading
Posted in Rant
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