Omnifarious

User since February 17, 2007

Visit here: http://omnifarious.livejournal.com/profile and find out more about me.

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distributed systems, books, computers, programming, python, c++, sex, jury nullification, software design, security, cryptography, science, protocols, philosophy

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Omnifarious is a member of LiveJournal, Seattle, freenode, Polyamorists

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Omnifarious has made 17 claims, 29 comments, agreed with 366 claims, disagreed with 167, and changed positions 28 times.

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The top tags for Omnifarious's claims: personal, location, programming, relationships, software, Minneapolis, meta, source control, mercurial, open source, functional programming, contributions, imperative programming, friends, weather, trivia, population, jyte, children, ethics, logic, economics, suggestions

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Turing machines are easier to understand than lambda calculus, but lambda calculus is more elegant.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago  → 1 comment
More people should give Omnifarious cred.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago  → 3 comments
Python has been used widely for longer than Ruby and so there are more examples of failed large projects using it.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
Wim got his name from a story by Vernor Vinge and Joan D. Vinge.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
Having children is the ultimate tragedy of the commons in a world with truly limited resources.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
The difference between the highest and lowest annual temperatures in Minneapolis is at least 67 degrees celcius.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
Omnifarious met d-e-l-i-r-i-u-m.livejournal.com in Minneapolis.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
Omnifarious has contributed some significant code to Mercurial.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago
Mercurial is a fast, easy to use Open Source distributed revision control system.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago  → 1 comment
Distributed source control systems are better than centralized source control systems.
By 1 Omnifarious about 1 year ago