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Year: 2016

Back from the Brink: Un-Trumping America.

November 25, 2016

I’m not going to be a perfectionist about anti-Trump posts — it’s more important just to get them out there. What we

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Semi-optimistic thoughts after the election.

November 10, 2016

Quick reaction post — I haven’t edited this much, just jotted it down and put it out there: It looks like a

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Rants.org now has a comments policy.

July 14, 2016

This blog now has a Comments Policy. Comments welcome?

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Starbucks buys their TLS certs on fiscal year boundaries?

July 5, 2016

This screenshot is from just after agreeing to the Terms of Service for the Google/Starbucks free wifi at the Starbucks

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Trusties and Suspies: Knowing Your Place in the New U.S.A.

June 24, 2016

I wish I had time to write a better post about this, but it’s more important to write about it

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Obligatory Post Opposing Donald Trump.

June 20, 2016

After reading Scott Aaronson’s “Daddy, why didn’t you blog about Trump?” post and Terence Tao’s “It ought to be common

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Starbucks in China Displays Their Wi-Fi Terms of Service Only as a PNG Image File.

May 31, 2016

Apparently, Starbucks in China doesn’t want you to save a copy of the wi-fi Terms of Service you agree to — it’s

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Commenting on ITAPS’s comments on the Federal Source Code Policy.

April 29, 2016

My response to ITAPS’s comments on the Federal Source Code Policy is posted here.

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Dissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial

April 14, 2016

My article Dissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial is now up at the IEEE Software Blog.

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SOLVED: Error on ‘git clone’ for Redis GitHub repository

If you encountered this error when trying to clone the Redis repository from GitHub recently, there is a solution. The

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