Monday, November 28, 2011

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  • LINED up in a gun rack beneath mounted deer heads is a Bushmaster Carbon 15, a matte-black semiautomatic rifle that looks as if it belongs to a SWAT team. On another rack rests a Teflon-coated Prairie Panther from DPMS Firearms, a supplier to the United States Border Patrol and security agencies in Iraq. On a third is a Remington 750 Woodsmaster, a popular hunting rifle.

    The variety of rifles and shotguns on sale here at Cabela’s, the national sporting goods chain, is a testament to America’s enduring gun culture. But, to a surprising degree, it is also a testament to something else: Wall Street deal-making.

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  • The singer was a no-show. The Gluten Free Expo in Sandy, Utah — one of the nation’s largest events dedicated to foods untainted by wheat — was going to have to start without the national anthem. But Debbie Deaver, the expo’s founder, didn’t have time to worry about that. The song, to be honest, was the least of her problems.
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    Deaver had slept four hours in the last three days. The 34-year-old woman — who has celiac disease and therefore must avoid eating gluten, a key protein in wheat — was running on prayer and Diet Dr Pepper. She needed sleep, and syrup.

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  • Missed "The Muppets" in theaters this weekend?* "How They Felt" is a short film co-starring a Muppet (apparently a Muppet Whatnot with custom wardrobe) that was part of this year's Boston 48 Hour Film Project, where it placed 2nd for Best film, won Best Actress (for the woman behind the Muppet) and also... "Best Sex Scene". Yeah, now you wanna see it. But be warned. Not a happy ending. It will either make you cry or make you want to strangle the filmmakers. *then it's YOUR fault "Breaking Dawn" was #1 at the box office (does not apply to non-USAians) posted by oneswellfoop at 12:17 PM - 20 comments

    tags: culture

  • Useful One-Line Scripts for Perl Nov 14 2011 | version 1.04
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    Compiled by Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net, @pkrumins on Twitter)
    http://www.catonmat.net -- good coders code, great reuse

    tags: programming

  • It is a little early for a review of the year, but not too early to state that 2011 has brought profound changes to the software development world. Although I am thinking mainly of the client, I would also argue that client and server are so intertwined that both are affected. As an example, I have heard developers moving away from SOAP web services not because of any conviction that REST is a better approach, but because the move away from Windows and towards HTML clients makes SOAP web services more difficult to consume.

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  • By now you’ve probably seen the Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder and a few solutions including one written purely in Canvas and Javascript. I don’t know any company code blogs that solve other company code blogs’ engineering challenges but that sounds meta enough to be awesome, so let’s do it.

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  • “When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”

    Here’s a scene straight from television. Two characters are at a computer terminal when suddenly intrusion warnings flare up.

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  • Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the weekend and amid ongoing worries over the euro zone.

    The Dow and S&P posted their worst Thanksgiving week since the Great Depression on a percentage basis.

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