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		<title>Chaining vs. Nesting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any UNIX sysadmin who&#8217;s been around the block a few times has probably written a line something like this:

netstat -n &#124; grep tcp &#124; awk '{ print $5}' &#124; sort &#124; uniq -c &#124; sort -n


Each command in this line produces output, and the end of the line, since it&#8217;s not shunted off to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2010/01/chaining-v-nesting</link>
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		<title>Obvious but Subtle Password Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having a friend&#8217;s email account compromised (which he only found out about after a bunch of fortunately harmless spam went out), I got to thinking how it might have happened.

I&#8217;m guessing it wasn&#8217;t a terribly strong password, but at the same time, attacking a site like gmail with more than a few bad passwords [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2010/01/passwords</link>
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		<title>Another Apple Tablet Possibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another thought just occurred to me: two 7-inch displays of a plausible aspect ratio add up to one 10-inch display. It could in fact be a Nintendo DS form factor. The displays might be identical, or one might be a low-power version.

That would make it quite a nice two-page-at-a-time eBook reader, a decent sub-netbook (running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2009/12/apple-tablet-2</link>
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		<title>My Prediction for the Apple Tablet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given it&#8217;s prediction season, and that a lot of folks are speculating about whatever sort of tablet computing device Apple is putting its finishing touches on, I&#8217;m going throw my hat in the ring and post my own prediction.

First, I think the thing has two touchscreen displays. That could explain the conflicting stories about whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2009/12/apple-tablet</link>
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		<title>Dealing with 20 Languages on a Résumé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months back I interviewed with a local internet company. During the course of the interview, they mentioned a pretty brilliant strategy for separating the people who know the names of 20 different programming languages from those who have actually used those languages.

If you don&#8217;t already have experience with some or all of the languages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2009/06/interview-languages</link>
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		<title>Blank UILabels in iPhone OS 2.x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent about an hour yesterday carefully stepping through some code that was setting the text of a UILabel in an iPhone app I&#8217;m working on. It worked perfectly on my 3.0 development box and my 3.0 device, but for some inexpicable reason, the text wasn&#8217;t showing up on my client&#8217;s 2.0 machine or device.

I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2009/03/blank-uilabels-in-iphone-os-2x</link>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t tell people anything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar&#8217;s Blog &#8220;Habitat Chronicles&#8221; is full of really excellent insights, not just with regard to building virtual worlds and communities. 

One of my favorites is this piece, called You can&#8217;t tell people anything:

What&#8217;s going on is that without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don&#8217;t have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/11/habitat</link>
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		<title>Improving on “Righty-Tighty”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most mechanically-inclined people are familiar with Righty Tighty and his sister, Lefty Loosey (Lucy?). The idea is that to tighten a fastener, you turn it clockwise (moving the top of the fastener to the right relative to its center), and to loosen it you turn it counterclockwise (moving the top of the fastener to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/10/righty-tighty</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Election Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how well known this site is, but it&#8217;s a great tool for understanding the politics of federal elections in the US. The site is http://www.electoral-vote.com/. If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, check it out.
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		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/09/my-favorite-election-website</link>
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		<title>Why the Gas-Tax Holiday Won’t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators McCain and Clinton have proposed a &#8220;gas-tax holiday&#8221; this summer, which would eliminate the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

If you squint and ignore the $10 billion hole it leaves in the federal highway budget (which McCain would fill by borrowing from taxpayers, and Clinton would take out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/04/gas-tax-holiday</link>
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