Over at Distributed Republic, Brandon Berg wonderfully captures my own attitude towards mainstream politics:
The problem with pragmatism is that it's just not practical. Ideal pragmatism is great--freed from ideological constraints, you can just do what works!--but ideal pragmatism isn't an option.
What we actually get is real-world pragmatism: People's beliefs about what policies produce the
Rails for PHP Developers (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback)By Derek DeVries
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This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you'll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more.These are bold claims, but we think that after reading this book you'll agree with them. And we have the experience to back up this belief. As Pragmatic Programmers we've tried many, many languages in our search for tools to make our lives
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In his new book, Retire Rich From Real Estate, Dr. Marc Andersen doesn’t teach you how to flip your way to overnight sensational success. Get-rich-schemes only enrich those authors, who otherwise, couldn’t score big in the tortuous world of real estate investing. Marc is none of that. Rather, he advocates the safe [...]
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is written by the pragmatic programmers themselves (the same people behind Agile Web Development on Rails). This book is often cited as one of the two “must-haves” for any programmer. The other must-have is Code Complete which I haven’t read yet.
This book does not teach a particular language or a particular framework; instead, it is advocating a philosophy of programming — a programmer’s bible in a way. The pragmatic way of programming is a smarter way to program that covers important aspects of programming in much more detail than other books such as:
Prototyping
Tuning Algorithm and Optimizing Speeds
Choosing an appropriate language for a project
Choosing appropriate tools (Text editor etc.)
Automation
Commenting/Documentation
Robust Code Testing
Debugging
Handling Exceptions
As you can see, the range of topics covered is huge — everything from pre-planning to maintenance. As a result, on
Universal Health InsuranceA number of Democratic presidential candidates -- including Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) -- support health care reform approaches "that borrow from the Massachusetts model," a law enacted last year in that state that "took key elements of the 1993 Clinton plan and made them practical politically," the Washington Post reports. Obama and Edwards have released plans to achieve expanded coverage using elements of the Massachusetts plan. Clinton has outlined an agenda to address health care costs, and is expected to focus on quality and "insuring everyone" later this year, according to the Post.The Post reports that Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber, who helped with the Massachusetts law, has consulted with the three leading Democratic candidates and is "possibly the [Democratic] party's most influential health care expert and voice of realism in its internal debates."
Confronted by Hugo Chávez’s determination to take control of Venezuela’s heavy oil upgraders, the international oil companies were between a rock and a hard place.They could either accept participation on the new terms, in which they would be junior partners to PdVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company, and expected to write cheques for new investment over which they would not have full control – or walk away from assets worth billions of dollars.Faced with that decision on Tuesday, Chevron of the US, Total of France, BP of the UK and Statoil of Norway chose to bite their lips and stick around.ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil of the US have walked away.For Exxon, the calculation, while painful, was straightforward. It has built a reputation for being a company that regards contracts as sacrosanct and expects its partners to do the same.With delicate negotiations over its Sakhalin-1 project in Russia under way, it would have been madness to throw that reputation away.If it could not do
Confronted by Hugo Chávez’s determination to take control of Venezuela’s heavy oil upgraders, the international oil companies were between a rock and a hard place.They could either accept participation on the new terms, in which they would be junior partners to PdVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company, and expected to write cheques for new investment over which they would not have full control – or walk away from assets worth billions of dollars.Faced with that decision on Tuesday, Chevron of the US, Total of France, BP of the UK and Statoil of Norway chose to bite their lips and stick around.ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil of the US have walked away.For Exxon, the calculation, while painful, was straightforward. It has built a reputation for being a company that regards contracts as sacrosanct and expects its partners to do the same.With delicate negotiations over its Sakhalin-1 project in Russia under way, it would have been madness to throw that reputation away.If it could not do
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It's not just another book on Ajax. It's Pragmatic Ajax: a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications.
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