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	<title>Crazy Coding Conundrums</title>
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		<title>Dutch Politics: Welke coalities zijn er uberhaupt mogelijk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about some interesting events in dutch politics, particularly about the upcoming election. As it&#8217;s going to be frightfully boring to anyone who doesn&#8217;t live here, I&#8217;m going to write the rest of this post in dutch.

Het is algemeen bekend dat een (meerderheids)coalitie erg moeilijk gaat worden na de volgende verkiezingen, maar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2010/03/07/dutch-politics-welke-coalities-zijn-er-uberhaupt-mogelijk/</link>
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		<title>Apple is evi&#8230; well, no. But perhaps shortsighted?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s iPad is perfectly suitable as your only computer.

I know the sales pitch for the Apple iPad to be a third device, but I think that&#8217;s just shortsighted. What would your average family really need to do that the iPad cannot do? Play intricate games? Well, don&#8217;t discount the iPad&#8217;s hardware, but evenso the usual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2010/02/15/apple-is-evi-well-no-but-perhaps-shortsighted/</link>
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		<title>Scoping your method locals: Neat programming trick.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a fairly common programming maxim that you should not let your methods grow too large. If that happens, the maxim generally suggests you split up your behemoth method by spinning off parts of it into their own &#8216;helper&#8217; methods.

I agree to the maxim, but I never really liked the solution. Helper methods are awkward; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2009/12/17/scoping-your-method-locals-neat-programming-trick/</link>
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		<title>I love patches!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got an email about a side-project, org.microformats.hCard, about the src zip being broken. Once I got that sorted out, an almost immediately followup that a 1.6 dependency snuck in there, including detailed reports.

Earlier, someone contributed XFN support for it. And, for lombok, we&#8217;ve recently received patches for netbeans and JDK7 support. The current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2009/12/09/i-love-patches/</link>
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		<title>Mark Reinhold on jigsaw &#8211; live notes from devoxx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted this on the java posse googlegroup about 5 minutes after Mark Reinhold&#8217;s talk on jigsaw at devoxx &#8216;09. I&#8217;m consolidating it here on my blog after some requests to do so.



Notes from his presentation at devoxx, 17:40-18:40 Central European Time, November 19th, 2009.

Section 1: Problems and Solutions

(why jigsaw, what is it trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pascal&#8217;s Wager for environmentalists: You&#8217;re being silly.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often a well meaning famous person re-invents the notion of the environmentalist Pascal&#8217;s Wager. The case being made works like this:

We drastically reduce pollutionWe don&#8217;t change much
Earth is doomed if we don&#8217;t drastically reduce our damage to the environment.
Damage: 0Damage: Infinite
Earth will be allright no matter what we do.Damage: couple billion dollarsDamage: 0

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2009/01/20/pascals-wager-for-environmentalists-youre-being-silly/</link>
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		<title>The dinosaur suicides.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoth Stephen Fry about the new Blackberry Storm:


An accelerometer is a device that lets an object know which way up it is. That’s just what the RIM corporation itself seems to need, for it is clear that with the release of this dog they don’t know their tits from their tibias.


And his isn&#8217;t the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2008/12/10/the-dinosaur-suicides/</link>
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		<title>Python3k: Compatibility fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blogosphere is rapidly heating up with dismay and sometimes outright anger at the bungling of the Python 3000 release. I walked into the #django IRC channel and I got my head bitten off for asking which version of python I should use for django. (After the channel cooled down some, I was able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2008/12/06/python3k-compatibility-fail/</link>
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		<title>Philips: Customer Service doghouse.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was an interesting experience. Frustrated that a giant, recently bought, Philips TV&#8217;s remote control is incapable of controlling the philips satellite box next to it, without much help from the user manual, I decided to ring them up.

Maybe Seth Godin is slipping a little, but Seth Godin&#8217;s simple missive: Make a customer happy when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zwitserloot.com/2008/12/06/philips-customer-service-doghouse/</link>
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		<title>Programming as Art &#8211; 50 in 50</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel&#8217;s quixotic wanderings through the history of programming languages is something every programming afficionado should appreciate. I really enjoyed it.

http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/11/21/art-and-code-obscure-or-beautiful-code/
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