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Bizzaro Referendum

There is a referendum currently being voted on in New Zealand under the strangest circumstances. Background A couple of years ago New Zealand politicians voted to remove “reasonable force” as a defence for violence by a parent against their child. Both sides were very passionate with cries of “Won’t someone think of the children?” from supporters of the law change and rendering of clothing and gnashing...

JSON Standard Business Card

Front: Back: Awesome. I think it is pretty cool that the entire standard can be put on the back of a business card (and a quarter of that is for defining what a number is!). From here .

Reductio ad Hitlerum

Not only does this Wikipedia article exist , it is going on 5 years old and has been edited over 600 times. I find this fantastic.

Blog Driven Design

It is time I coined a programming term: Blog Driven Design Blog Driven Design is discovering code is too verbose to reasonably include in a blog post and is the additional work put into the design to trim it down to a blogable size. Example A recent beta of Json.NET added schema support. While writing the blog post showing the new feature in action I discovered there was no quick way go from a string... More Posts Next page »

James Newton-King

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