The Design and Implementation of laffer1

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Mon, 28 Nov 2005

9:18 AM - SHIT ASS DAY

I couldn't sleep much last night. Woke up feeling like something was wrong but couldn't quite place it. Caryn and I got a call from my mother at 7:30am with news that a family member was probably dead in a fire. Now it looks as though he was murdered!!!!!! Someone broke into his law office/apartment, killed him and the set the place on fire. We dont' have confirmation yet. Its suspected that my fathers first cousin was killed.

My dad called about 30 minutes later. Channel 12 in flint has a story up on their website about it and briefly covered it on the 8am news. My dad had the tv on and i heard a little bit. The media isn't reporting that anyone died yet.

When i went to blog this, the jj server had crashed this morning around the same time my mother called.

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10:04 AM - Update on the big events of today

I just talked with ila. John made the 911 call that the place was on fire. Someone tried to get him to jump but he wouldn't. The dental records are on their way to oakland county to do the autopsy. My dad is very upset about it. It sounds like there are at least 2 suspects possibly. Earliest the body will be release is tomorrow.

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10:50 AM - Linus believes in GOTO, so should you

It seems that Mr. Linux kernel jedi master himself loves goto statements.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/553

In general, goto statements ARE the root of all evil along with perl, php and recently added common lisp. I do think there are RARE cases goto statements are useful. Using them in a kernel is sometimes necessary but if speed is an issue, perhaps they should be using assembly code anyway. Of course getting off their ass and writing good code might be a better idea.

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10:53 AM - Java port of quake 2!

Someone ported quake 2 to java! It performs faster than the .NET C++ port.

http://www.bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html

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