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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
I was trying to think of a straightforward explanation of the difference between a class and an object (in OOP terms), and came up with this:
Objects are specific instances of classes. When you create a class, you are literally creating "a class of objects." For instance, let us create a ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
I see that Bush has been critical of Attorney General Gonzales' scandal around the intent to mass-fire attorneys across the board for political reasons. But I'm going to defend Gonzales a bit here and say: Wasn't he just following orders from the White House? It seems unlikely that he'd just ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Today we took a drive out to Dongshan (±). The trip involved two elongated stops at some impressively maintained rest areas and a final stop at this little shop run by a friend of Yingwen's mother, where we bought some chicken for later. Apparently the area is famous for roasted ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Today I had my toothpaste confiscated from the airline security people as I went through. They said my toothpaste tube was too big. I pointed out that it was 90% empty, and only a few CCs of product remained in this flattened tube, but they were convinced that this dangerous ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
In my Database class this evening we were watching the instructor do some database modeling using Visio. I was playing along using Omnigraffle, but after a while it didn't go as far as Visio did in terms of automatically creating relationships, foreign keys, and that sort of thing. I wanted ...
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