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woodgears··on Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs
More likely, they had this issue prepared ahead of time. They, like most observers, knew it was coming. No ads simplifies the logistics of swapping out the issue.
woodgears··on It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really simple
Given the crazy complicated XML schemas people come up with, I'd say you are lucky it's just plain text, and you can parse it without needing a library.
woodgears··on The C64 Motherlode - Everything you need to learn how to code on the C64
I do find it amazing how people comment on it, yet none of the links work.

Does anybody actually bother to even check out the site.

The only thing that works is the front page!

woodgears··on The Curious Complexity of Being Turned On
Perhaps the "mood detector" isn't the most intuitive example. But imagine it's some sort of computer peripheral that several applications make use of. The problem seems simple until multiple agents start to mess with it. So you start out with steve's simple model, and you too will progress to what he ended up with eventually.

on/off seems easy, but it's hard in complex systems. Like how complex can it be to turn windows vista on and off, right?