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<title>Brief Intro to Memory Mapping Into Structs</title>
<description><![CDATA[Learning how to memory map was a frustrating topic to hunt down, despite how easy it really is. First I'll share my main source, then get to what I was doing. For a great intro to memory mapping, follow that link. It will explain the code below while I'm just going to show it and tell what it does on a high level.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/brief_intro_to_memory_mapping_into_structs</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:30:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Get rid of copyright</title>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Imitation is the highest form of flattery.&quot;]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/get_rid_of_copyright</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:26:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Get rid of trademarks</title>
<description><![CDATA[Let's get what trademarks are for out of the way right now. They're for protecting businesses who can't out-innovate (and would normally just out-advertise) their competition. They're also in part for helping the public against fraud, but that's more of a side-effect.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/get_rid_of_trademarks</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:57:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Get rid of patents</title>
<description><![CDATA[Software patents have been under heavy heat recently and have never been favored to begin with; I'll talk about them a bit. But really, the problem is with all patents, not just software ones.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/get_rid_of_patents</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:26:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Laughing Powers</title>
<description><![CDATA[I've wondered how much it amuses those in power, the small acts the rest of us do. People preach non-violence, or violence as a last resort, and the powers snort and continue their wars. People preach full-blown unrestricted capitalism expecting money-makers to be virtuous, and the powers snort and continue to exploit and cheat. People preach against government regulation, and the powers appear to be on their side, but really they want regulation that they propose to raise the barrier to entry in the markets they control. All throughout history, people have used the government to maintain their positions of power. Then those of us who preach against the existence of government at all are branded crazies.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/laughing_powers</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:04:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Chaos is good?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Americans have no idea what it's like to be &quot;terrorized&quot;. It'd be interesting if attacks actually escalated. I realize that the &quot;terrorist&quot; plan has so far worked; that is, getting the US and world economy to suffer, as well as lowering our image and letting our government enslave us. It'd be interesting if more violent attacks toward civilians were around, and even more so if those attackers were white or at least &quot;non-Muslim&quot;, since that's what &quot;terrorist&quot; is equated to now...]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/chaos_is_good</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:07:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Objectivists Go Home!</title>
<description><![CDATA[Some of you talk about how taxes are immoral and the government shouldn't be involved in your precious industries, you say that if the government gets just a little more socialist the producers will leave in arms and the former society will collapse. You complain about your wealth being frittered away. If only you had more control!]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/objectivists_go_home</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/objectivists_go_home</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:35:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus</title>
<description><![CDATA[And now for something completely different, a movie review!]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/mega_shark_vs_giant_octopus</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/mega_shark_vs_giant_octopus</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:25:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The hidden justification for killing</title>
<description><![CDATA[tl;dr version: death happens anyway, why does it matter if it happens before the person's 80?]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/the_hidden_justification_for_killing</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/the_hidden_justification_for_killing</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:57:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Non-violence for a modern world</title>
<description><![CDATA[The problem sociopaths present to a non-violent society has been bugging me for quite a while. And this is in a perfect non-violent society! Nevermind real life which not only has sociopaths but general delinquents and immoral people. Furthermore, a stance of pure non-violence seems at-odds with a utilitarian perspective. If someone is going to do lots of harm/evil/disutility, from a utilitarian view that person should be stopped if possible. But wait, we're not supposed to use violence, because violence is also disutility. It hurts the inflicter as well as the inflictee.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/non-violence_for_a_modern_world</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/non-violence_for_a_modern_world</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:45:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>On money, and Curiosity as the currency of the future</title>
<description><![CDATA[I grew up with Star Trek. At one point I knew a significant amount of Klingon (though I've (sadly?) forgotten pretty much all of it), and recently I've acquired all seven seasons of The Next Generation to watch all the episodes again. Having this base, it doesn't seem strange to me to imagine a future where money is obsolete and molecular nanotechnology produces food and other objects on the fly.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/on_money_and_curiosity_as_the_currency_of_the_future</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/on_money_and_curiosity_as_the_currency_of_the_future</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:41:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>OOP in C with Function Pointers and Structs</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the beginning PyGame book (google around for it) the author presents a text-based Tank Game in Chapter 2 where you select which tanks to shoot and stats accordingly change. It is used as an introduction to object oriented programming. My team at school has to use C to make a video game, but we really want to use OOP-like idioms, and classes really are just glorified structs. However, googling around for how to use function pointers, I never saw a clear way of doing what I wanted: classes in separate source files with static functions. So after a morning of hacking away at it, I figured it out. Here's the source code for the three files:]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/oop_in_c_with_function_pointers_and_structs</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:47:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>A small retraction</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have previously said &quot;90% of philosophy is bullshit&quot;. I stand by that, but only because there is just so much bad philosophy!]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/a_small_retraction</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/a_small_retraction</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:40:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Utility</title>
<description><![CDATA[I'll admit: I'm a utilitarian. But what does that mean, exactly, and why would I advocate others to follow along as well? Why have a morality anyway?]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/utility</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/utility</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:47:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Nosce te ipsum</title>
<description><![CDATA[Know thyself. I don't think any greater piece of wisdom was ever uttered. (And yes, I know the original is in Greek not Latin.)]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/nosce_te_ipsum</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/nosce_te_ipsum</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:28:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Rooting is not the inverse of exponentiating!</title>
<description><![CDATA[I read someone spreading this lie again the other day, and it annoyed me. Consider addition whose inverse operation is subtraction. The additive inverse is typically expressed like so: a + (-a) = 0, and we make this shorthand to a - a = 0. All subtraction is, is inversed addition.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/rooting_is_not_the_inverse_of_exponentiating</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/rooting_is_not_the_inverse_of_exponentiating</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:24:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Programming and Math</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you're a programmer of any quality, I think you also need to have a firm grasp of mathematics. For at least 95% of the cases (I submit that there are some great programmers who really aren't good at math-in-general), there's just no escaping it.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/programming_and_math</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/programming_and_math</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:24:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Does altruism need justification? Really?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I'm quite certain it doesn't. Ah well. At the very least, I think I'll clarify what I mean by altruism--what most people mean by altruism.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/does_altruism_need_justification_really</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/does_altruism_need_justification_really</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:32:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>High Divorce Rates</title>
<description><![CDATA[New tag: thought will denote entries that aren't really thought-out much but contain what I think is a neat idea and something to possibly look into later.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/high_divorce_rates</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/high_divorce_rates</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:28:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Some Beliefs</title>
<description><![CDATA[I've decided to make a list of some of my current beliefs, without really justifying them, so I can just point here for future reference when people misconstrue my thoughts. I'll try to be clear in writing and categorize a little, but this post is no absolute authority on the matter, and if at later dates I appear to contradict myself assume I believe the new thing. Here goes, in no particular order.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/some_beliefs</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:01:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Truisms and Tautologies Bug Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[Well, that's all I pretty much have to say. But I found this so-called &quot;axiom&quot; of Objectivism to be one of the most annoying truism ever: &quot;Existence exists.&quot;]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/truisms_and_tautologies_bug_me</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/truisms_and_tautologies_bug_me</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:52:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Atheist Enough</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's a fun phrase, and I want to explore what it means. It's easy to be &quot;atheist&quot;, isn't it? You just reject the notion of any supernatural deity. Problem solved. And I'm happy that more and more people are becoming this variety of atheist.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/atheist_enough</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/atheist_enough</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:28:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Carnations</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/carnations</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:18:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Idiot Smackdown!</title>
<description><![CDATA[As a followup to Yay Free Traffic, I've decided to actually go through the negative posts about me on the Objectivist forum and rip them to shreds. I'm not going to be so kind as to link back to them, though, but the url is: forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?showtopic=18153]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/idiot_smackdown</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/idiot_smackdown</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Having One Tool</title>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;When the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.&quot;]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/having_one_tool</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:02:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Yay Free Traffic</title>
<description><![CDATA[So I refreshed my stats the other night after getting a stream of comments.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/yay_free_traffic</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/yay_free_traffic</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:15:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>I am so smart! I am so smart!</title>
<description><![CDATA[S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T!]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/i_am_so_smart_i_am_so_smart</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/i_am_so_smart_i_am_so_smart</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:38:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Hacker Manifesto</title>
<description><![CDATA[From here:]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/the_hacker_manifesto</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/the_hacker_manifesto</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:51:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Caffeine!</title>
<description><![CDATA[I love caffeine!!!]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/caffeine</link>
<guid>http://www.thejach.com//view/caffeine</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Free Will</title>
<description><![CDATA[Free will is a topic that often generates a lot of confusion, both in those who claim it doesn't exist and in those who claim to have it. I'm going to attempt to clear the air a little, and come at the end from several lines.]]></description>
<link>http://www.thejach.com//view/free_will</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:38:40 -0800</pubDate>
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