TheJach.com

A blog about the going-ons of Jach's mind

Largely a mind-dump to myselves, past, present, and future

All posts ever:

Programming is the closest thing to magic - 2009-06-11 19:56:21

On OAuth - 2009-06-11 20:03:35

Why Should I Care? - 2009-06-11 20:29:12

Dropping Out of School - 2009-06-11 20:39:11

Use of the gender-neutral singular pronoun "they" - 2009-06-11 20:42:44

Learning (and Teaching) - 2009-06-11 20:54:53

Wisdom Teeth Gone - 2009-06-12 12:33:35

The Man Who Values Money - 2009-06-26 04:58:04

Stallman's Anti-Mono - 2009-06-28 05:15:39

The need for change - 2009-07-19 01:15:02

Violence as I see it - 2009-07-22 05:43:13

HostGator Fail - 2009-07-24 15:01:24

Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence - 2009-07-26 06:23:23

Back to the GPL - 2009-07-28 02:30:20

Moving - 2009-07-30 21:43:23

The Uberman - 2009-08-03 03:50:58

Uberman Day 3 - 2009-08-06 01:22:51

Uberman Day 4 - 2009-08-07 00:43:19

Uberman Fail - 2009-08-12 21:18:15

Enforcing "Law" - 2009-08-19 05:24:31

Ludum Dare 15 - 2009-08-29 11:16:47

On Altruism - 2009-09-01 05:08:51

Learning the Deep Magic - 2009-09-04 02:20:52

Vim and [language] Interpreter - 2009-09-06 01:40:16

I can't do this alone! - 2009-09-08 20:20:25

Classroom Opinion Polls - 2009-09-11 02:33:11

Introductory Object Oriented Programming - 2009-09-12 04:43:00

A World Without IP - 2009-09-27 13:52:40

Going to Canada - 2009-10-02 09:35:42

Procrastination! - 2009-10-08 03:58:50

Where Philosophies Break Down - 2009-10-13 04:22:26

Philosophy is Easy - 2009-10-14 04:57:09

Nanotech will probably come first - 2009-10-16 03:47:59

Does studying math lead to learning more truth? - 2009-10-17 21:07:10

Complete Proofs - 2009-10-18 02:01:36

Sort of a use for variable-variables! - 2009-10-19 04:04:33

Good Procrastination - 2009-10-22 06:12:03

Simple Non-Cooperation - 2009-10-23 17:57:25

Free Software is a horrible name! - 2009-10-24 04:26:57

Small Rant - 2009-10-29 16:30:52

NaNoWriMo? - 2009-11-01 19:41:35

My favorite equation - 2009-11-04 03:45:01

A New Job - 2009-11-05 07:02:44

Values - 2009-11-05 17:40:31

I love regular expressions - 2009-11-11 10:12:16

To the veterans and all military - 2009-11-11 12:35:41

Lazy and Stupid - 2009-11-17 10:23:23

Philosophy is a step above religion - 2009-11-24 08:20:21

Why I think English is Easy - 2009-11-27 04:53:19

Views On Sex - 2009-11-29 03:08:18

Annoying Code - 2009-11-29 03:19:55

Free Will - 2009-12-02 03:38:40

Caffeine! - 2009-12-09 17:10:14

The Hacker Manifesto - 2009-12-12 00:51:24

I am so smart! I am so smart! - 2009-12-13 20:38:01

Yay Free Traffic - 2009-12-14 14:15:21

Having One Tool - 2009-12-15 14:02:23

Idiot Smackdown! - 2009-12-15 16:15:54

Carnations - 2009-12-16 21:18:41

Atheist Enough - 2009-12-25 03:28:22

Truisms and Tautologies Bug Me - 2009-12-25 03:52:09

Some Beliefs - 2009-12-25 06:01:21

High Divorce Rates - 2009-12-27 10:28:51

Does altruism need justification? Really? - 2009-12-28 02:32:42

Programming and Math - 2009-12-28 11:24:42

Rooting is not the inverse of exponentiating! - 2010-01-12 21:24:19

Nosce te ipsum - 2010-01-12 23:28:56

Utility - 2010-01-13 22:47:07

A small retraction - 2010-01-20 06:40:45

OOP in C with Function Pointers and Structs - 2010-01-28 11:47:35

On money, and Curiosity as the currency of the future - 2010-02-09 00:41:07

Non-violence for a modern world - 2010-02-09 01:45:53

The hidden justification for killing - 2010-02-16 19:57:10

Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus - 2010-02-24 00:25:09

Objectivists Go Home! - 2010-02-24 01:35:28

Chaos is good? - 2010-03-01 04:07:20

Laughing Powers - 2010-03-02 12:04:40

Get rid of patents - 2010-03-04 10:26:11

Get rid of trademarks - 2010-03-05 17:57:59

Get rid of copyright - 2010-03-06 05:26:11

Brief Intro to Memory Mapping Into Structs - 2010-03-11 07:30:18

Tao Te Ching Reflections, 1 through 13 - 2010-03-22 02:11:43

Tao Te Ching Reflections, 14 through 25 - 2010-03-22 23:13:23

Obama's Cowardice - 2010-03-27 07:01:27

Mathematical Induction - 2010-04-03 01:51:53

mod_security can kiss my ass - 2010-04-03 03:59:59

Some problems with C and C++ - 2010-04-06 15:05:45

Dumb Hack: cycle desktop background in gnome - 2010-04-15 22:09:00

A brief foray into determinism - 2010-04-16 21:33:02

Humanity's Progress, Niceness - 2010-04-25 05:20:03

Getters (Accessors) and Setters (Mutators) Are Evil - 2010-04-28 15:40:00

Tao Te Ching Reflections, 26 through 46 - 2010-04-28 17:53:34

Sociology Memo: Intelligent Design vs. Evolution in Schools - 2010-04-29 20:22:01

Sociology Memo: Network Neutrality - 2010-04-29 20:27:18

Sociology Memo: Nanotechnology - 2010-04-29 20:40:33

Sociology Memo: Genetically Modified Food - 2010-04-29 20:50:23

Sociology memo: Intelligent Machines - 2010-05-17 06:11:58

Sociology memo: Is Information Technology a Threat to Privacy? - 2010-05-17 06:21:15

Sociology Memo: Should the World's Libraries Be Digitized? - 2010-05-17 06:29:39

Sociology Memo: Is it Ethically Permissible to Clone Human Cells? - 2010-05-17 06:35:15

Research Paper: The Need For Friendly Artificial General Intelligence - 2010-05-17 07:05:22

Idiocy, and Why is disabling allowed? - 2010-05-27 07:41:11

Pain-Free Meat - 2010-06-05 14:53:35

Is Environmentalism a Religion? - 2010-06-07 13:36:53

Why I Sometimes Really Dislike Java - 2010-06-15 21:09:46

Role Playing Is Like Chess - 2010-06-20 04:04:40

Enjoy it! - 2010-06-23 00:48:44

Eminem's New Album Rules - 2010-06-26 20:53:24

The Perfect Ones - 2010-06-30 02:15:08

Flex XMLList Set Intersections, Unions, Differences - 2010-06-30 13:05:51

Just-in-time Learning - 2010-07-06 03:45:11

Teaching Programming - 2010-07-10 00:18:04

Power Levels - 2010-07-16 00:24:27

Thinking In Groups - 2010-07-22 05:24:13

How to turn an agnostic - 2010-07-22 05:56:41

Response to: The Perils of Java Schools - 2010-07-24 01:16:40

Server Migration Completed - 2010-08-08 00:18:20

Flex Tip: ComboBox Events - 2010-08-09 12:29:04

Let's dissect a rant! With a rant - 2010-08-11 01:07:40

Separate Your Deities - 2010-08-25 03:59:55

Cryonics as strong evidence against souls? - 2010-08-27 01:35:34

A First Draft Application: Competing Hypotheses - 2010-08-29 16:33:16

Tao Te Ching Reflections, 47 through 55 - 2010-09-05 06:01:43

Introducing a new ugliness! - 2010-09-05 19:30:22

Why is there so much hostility over ad blockers? - 2010-09-13 06:34:58

Flex Tip: SOAP Webservice POST calls with an XMLList - 2010-09-17 18:30:52

Metroid: Other M Review - 2010-09-26 01:36:50

"Go fuck yourself" is a status signal - 2010-09-28 23:36:07

New Books! - 2010-09-28 23:48:22

C++ supports encapsulation? Really? - 2010-10-08 15:33:08

C does support encapsulation! - 2010-10-10 01:20:19

Happy Day 42 - 2010-10-10 15:15:54

Arrogance Labels - 2010-11-01 02:20:56

NaNoWriMo 2010: A Tale From Mineworld - 2010-11-02 02:53:53

A Tale From Mineworld, Ch. 2 - 2010-11-08 02:02:44

About My NaNoWriMo - 2010-11-08 02:09:50

Religious Thinking: Egotism - 2010-11-11 22:55:13

Religious Thinking: Faith - 2010-11-11 23:20:44

Deriving the Kinematic Equations - 2010-11-15 05:49:49

For rhetorical flair, use X in 10 - 2010-11-20 02:29:35

Pretty fractal - 2010-11-22 05:12:02

Nationalistic Social Change is Disgusting - 2010-11-27 08:38:08

Some economics - 2010-11-30 04:07:18

Short argument against Pascal's Wager - 2010-12-07 06:18:45

Blog Fodder: Why, Ubuntu, Why? - 2010-12-23 02:23:10

Happy New Year! And New Books - 2011-01-01 05:14:33

Don't ask, don't tell: don't really care - 2011-01-03 01:28:34

...In which I reveal my inability to rap. - 2011-01-06 02:29:36

Have some physics! Impulse - 2011-01-23 21:55:55

Tao Te Ching Reflections, 56 through 81 (end) - 2011-01-24 03:36:29

My rule for getting help - 2011-02-07 12:14:01

Why you'll never see real government-mandated safety or public automation for cars - 2011-02-14 08:50:48

You are being hit by a bat - 2011-03-01 04:06:35

Mesh Current Method - 2011-03-10 23:42:35

Simple abstraction - 2011-03-12 08:19:55

Poor Japanese - 2011-03-12 11:05:54

Spring Security: basic auth custom message passing - 2011-03-12 11:43:21

Google Analytics Go! - 2011-03-20 18:52:26

Let's build a database! - 2011-03-25 02:02:50

What's that shiny thing over there? - 2011-03-31 16:26:27

A new favorite equation? - 2011-04-05 16:28:33

Attacking Mere Employees Doing Their Jobs - 2011-04-15 20:48:30

Progressive Taxes - 2011-04-16 00:54:22

Quick CouchDB Fun - 2011-04-18 05:18:12

10 Random Facts - 2011-04-19 05:50:04

A Fun, Dirty, Computer Engineering Comic - 2011-04-25 01:50:34

Selfishness is clever - 2011-04-26 11:33:08

The FFP Machine Implemented With An FPGA - 2011-05-04 09:10:36

Against explaining to grandmothers - 2011-05-15 00:37:25

Hello Unicode! - 2011-05-21 03:30:19

Can your SQL database do this? - 2011-05-25 03:50:05

Crab Canon Maker In Flex - 2011-06-11 02:14:58

Favorite equation revisited - 2011-06-28 11:04:35

New Comment Messengers Finally Added - 2011-07-01 00:10:44

Fall Semester Classes - 2011-07-01 04:45:03

Why vim? Or: Why a text editor, not an IDE? - 2011-07-17 04:05:22

The Cumber Manifesto - 2011-07-20 08:58:13

Plagiarism in Code - 2011-07-24 23:18:19

Python: map or list comprehensions? - 2011-08-03 21:07:01

Inferential Distances Again - 2011-08-14 08:56:55

Anarchy vs. Sovereign Structures - 2011-08-27 04:45:29

Short guide to Lisp (syntax) - 2011-08-31 08:02:05

The best is the enemy of the better - 2011-09-02 13:41:00

Clojure Tip: defstruct, deftype, defrecord - 2011-09-09 23:14:05

Featured on reddit! - 2011-09-17 23:17:10

I wish Python had macros, but it's okay - 2011-09-26 18:16:21

Playing with Morton Numbers - 2011-09-27 03:59:22

Forms of atheism and death tolls - 2011-09-28 08:06:37

Notes from Probability Theory Chapter 1 - 2011-10-01 02:41:48

Furcadia is Dead - 2011-10-14 07:21:55

40 + 40 x 0 + 1= ? - 2011-10-15 19:17:05

Aumann's Agreement Theorem - 2011-10-16 04:05:18

Smartness - 2011-10-16 06:45:05

Where did God get his morality? - 2011-10-19 04:09:25

The Graph Nature of Reality - 2011-10-21 04:27:18

Multicore programming with Clojure - 2011-10-22 23:38:22

Joins as Matrices - 2011-10-25 02:37:26

Is general machine intelligence inevitable? - 2011-11-03 22:48:45

Tracing Beliefs - 2011-11-26 06:19:04

Some grounding for protests - 2011-12-02 14:41:42

Knowledge Basilisks - 2011-12-02 15:12:36

A basic application of logarithms - 2011-12-03 16:03:02

Thoughts On Immortality, Cryonics - 2011-12-08 10:22:39

Is this really going down? God is not great? - 2011-12-15 23:33:54

Removing crap from a git repository's history - 2011-12-19 23:34:21

Migrating and remerging perforce histories into git with git grafts - 2011-12-20 22:16:50

An explanation and example of Naive Bayes - 2012-01-12 08:12:31

Output - 2012-01-22 02:10:48

Notes from Probability Theory Chapter 1 continued - 2012-01-22 10:19:23

Rich fool buys something frivolous, therefore... - 2012-01-22 13:29:06

Notes from Probability Theory Chapter 2 - 2012-01-25 03:52:01

Incredibly Stupid Caching System - 2012-02-03 23:16:24

Possibility and Free Will - 2012-02-04 14:36:35

Is government responsible for created wealth? - 2012-02-05 22:15:17