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		<title>The Java Situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ignoring for a moment the Oracle/IBM problem, I&#8217;d like to take a minute to discuss java. I&#8217;ve been using it now for several years. Back when it was first introduced, and for the past few years I&#8217;ve been using it for more enterprise level development, Android apps, and game development. I went whole-hog. Got eclipse, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2010/10/25/the-java-situation/</link>
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		<title>Education or Ineducation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been bugged for years over this problem of inventing things that already exist. For example, I may spend a great deal of time working on a concept, and arrive at an inventive solution, only to discover, when telling someone else about it, that it&#8217;s already been invented. I myself have done that to others, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2009/11/08/education-or-ineducation/</link>
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		<title>New CPU Instruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to propose a new CPU instruction. Purely theoretical for now, but interesting to talk about. At least I hope so. My new CPU instruction is going to load into EAX the value of EAX from 10 seconds in the future. Crazy talk, I know. But I&#8217;m going to ignore the &#8220;you can&#8217;t do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2009/04/28/new-cpu-instruction/</link>
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		<title>Steady-state economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering lately about what the steady state of the American dream is. What are the unavoidable outcomes if every player in the game is following that strategy? Seems to me that there&#8217;s a finite number of lawns to mow. There are economies of scale, and it&#8217;s well known that when providing a service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2009/04/14/steady-state-economy/</link>
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		<title>On Applications, OSes, and VMs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lately begun to realize that when a common problem shows up, it&#8217;s often the symptom of something else. Such as when customers complain about the amount of rBGH in their food, manufacturers can decide to avoid it, not avoid it, or, and more intelligently, create two products and sell to everyone. Writing about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2009/03/18/on-applications-oses-and-vms/</link>
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		<title>On Security of Operating systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading about yet another zero day exploit for IE and Windows, on the heels of a security update for same because of an existing unpatched vulnerability that&#8217;s been causing pain to many over the past few weeks. Honestly, you could write the above two lines any time over the past 12 years, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2008/12/29/on-security-of-operating-systems/</link>
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		<title>Civic Literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took an online civic literacy quiz not too long ago, it asked a lot of mainly trivia questions, but also some very interesting policy and mechanics of government questions. Seems to me there should have been a few questions on that civic literacy quiz about why it&#8217;s good to be a citizen. I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2008/12/11/civic-literacy/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It just works&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk about &#8220;It Just Works&#8221; lately, probably due to the renewed popularity of the Mac platforms. I recall quite a few &#8220;just works&#8221; promises in the past. Plug and Play was supposed to be that. Heck, the very meaning of the phrase is almost identical. The problem with &#8220;It Just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2008/11/07/it-just-works/</link>
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		<title>Active and Reactive programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imperative languages like C and java and just about everything else I use are very demanding. You use the languages to say things like &#8220;do that&#8221;, and it does. Deeply fulfilling for a type A personality, I&#8217;m sure. But it lacks something. Other languages, like lisp, prolog, etc.. have different concepts. I don&#8217;t know the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2008/10/24/active-and-reactive-programming/</link>
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		<title>Colors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purple is an odd concept. We see it as a combination of red and blue&#8230; because we have roughly RGB retinas&#8230; but then we see 50%R 50%G as yellow, when there&#8217;s a real yellow that just triggers 50%R 50%G.. We can&#8217;t see the difference though. But there&#8217;s no frequency of light that corresponds to purple. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coollabssoft.com/blog/2008/09/30/colors/</link>
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