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		<title>New Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t write. Seriously. I&#8217;m not happy with where my writing skills are at the moment. I came to this conclusion some time in December and so I committed to blogging at least once per week to improve the situation. Tonight I started writing a post about my motivations as an entrepreneur, and then I [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2010/02/03/new-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Seth Godin: How to Produce Like a Linchpin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a complete blogging Wednesday cop out, but whatever it takes to keep the streak alive. I found Seth&#8217;s interview here inspiring and interesting. It&#8217;s long, but worth listening to in the background or at lunch or something.
Summary: The economy is changing. Assembly line jobs are going to completely disappear. What do we need [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2010/01/27/seth-godin-how-to-produce-like-a-linchpin/</link>
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		<title>Clark Kent by Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By day I&#8217;m your average enterprise developer. I develop in Windows. I write VB code on .NET. I write standards-compliant Javascript. When I head home for the day I&#8217;m just glad I haven&#8217;t literally died of boredom. By night I&#8217;m a dual-wielding Python/Django hacker battling my foe  with a stream of commits to GitHub. I&#8217;m [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2010/01/20/clark-kent-by-day/</link>
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		<title>Programming is Magic</title>
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I first started programming when I was 10. Dad had CompuServe, a 28.8Kbps modem and a laptop the size of a microwave. It was summer break and during the evenings he would let me log in to a MOO. (Think World of Warcraft but entirely text based and it had a programming language).
Every night I would [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2010/01/13/programming-is-magic/</link>
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		<title>Things I Wish I had Time to (Re)Learn/Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the list I intend to get to&#8230;eventually.
* Lisp
* Prologue
* Haskell
* The Lambda Calculus
* Discrete Math (especially the counting stuff)
* Chinese
* Invent a new programming language
* Write a chat bot
* Write the next version of a MOO
* The entire field of AI
* Chopin&#8217;s etude in C# minor
* Spend months travelling the countries bordering the [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2010/01/06/things-i-wish-i-had-time-to-relearndo/</link>
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		<title>Prototypes in Javascript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inheritance allows programmers to reuse code. Code reuse is the holy grail of software development best practices. The most common form of inheritance relies on an idiom known as the Class. The Class is a blueprint of what an object should look like once instantiated. It is declaritive and exists at compile time. Any Class [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2009/12/30/prototypes-in-javascript/</link>
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		<title>ActiveRecord Style Validation using SQLAlchemy and Elixir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Turns out I missed the boat on this one. This has already been implemented in Elixir.
I just spent the better part of today putting together the pieces in order to create ActiveRecord like validation in my Elixir models. Here is what I wanted to be able to do:

class Tag(Entity):
    label = [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2008/04/20/activerecord-style-validation-using-sqlalchemy-and-elixir/</link>
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		<title>401k Loan: The Double Taxation Myth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever personal finance gurus are presented with a question about 401k loans they usually bark back with a list of truisms that should lead you to conclude that a 401k loan is a very bad idea:

If you lose your job you will have to pay back the loan immediately or face severe tax penalties
You give [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/11/01/401k-loan-the-double-taxation-myth/</link>
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		<title>GTD for your personal finances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really appreciate the comments on my last post. They were all thought provoking and fun to read. I’m looking forward to responding to them, but in the mean time this post is in a completely different vein.
I really thought that I had my finances in order. Beth and I have a cushy savings account [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/04/12/gtd-for-your-personal-finances/</link>
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		<title>life after death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine two universes: Heaven and Everyone-Else. Heaven and Everyone-Else never touch or interact. A human in Heaven can’t see, touch, smell, taste or use any other measurement tool that could ever be created to observe Everyone-Else, and vice versa.
If such a scenario exists, and we are in Everyone-Else, is it useful for us to spend [...]


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		<link>http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/04/09/life-after-death/</link>
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