Nick Bastin

While this was mostly already true, I’m making it official and trying harder. From now on, every document I create and message I send will be unicode and unicode only. If your mail client or text editor can’t read it, try upgrading and joining the rest of us in the 21st century. [...]

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As per a note from David Stanek on the organizers list, I managed to get two “summary” proposals in under the wire tonight, for which I can finish putting abstracts together this weekend, hopefully. One is a somewhat flexible idea for a presentation on extending and embedding – could be anywhere from a somewhat [...]

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Look, site hackers are generally bad people. I don’t think we need to have much discussion on this topic – at best, they’re up to no good, and at worst they’re truly malicious. However, some of the quotes in this story quite miss the point:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm
I have exactly zero sympathy for these people. [...]

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The Kindle DX seems entirely like a newspaper/magazine replacement, and not so much for books. The $489 price tag is drawing screams from the blogosphere for being far too high, but it’s ridiculously cheap if you really want the New York Times. Of course, the question is if they can convince people to [...]

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Yes, I was a party to this IM conversation today. I’m not going to share which participant I was.
Participant 1
16:08 I’m a bad person
Participant 2
16:08 one who uses lambdas for everything possible?
Participant 1
16:09 which is, you know, a slippery slope..
16:09 sure, it seems fine for some stuff
16:09 but then 6 months from now you [...]

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After playing with my Android phone (T-Mobile G1) for a couple weeks, as well as iPhones in the past, it seems to me that high resolution LCDs with the latest generation touch technologies are a fertile ground for desktop application development. Obviously I’m not the first person to this party, since HP has a [...]

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The PyOhio CFP deadline is coming up soon (May 15th) and I still trying to come up with something new and clever to present. I have some interest in trying to get together a panel on extending and embedding (Python 2.x), but I think I’d probably still want to do another talk besides. [...]

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Now that the race is on to come up with names out of a hat based on no criteria at all to replace Justice Souter, I’m throwing my hat into the ring. I only have one criteria – they cannot currently be or have significantly served as a judge. We’ve got 8 career [...]

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