May 2010 Archives

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Good advice for both building a house and performing a database update.

Starting Over from Scratch

From Lee Harris's circuitous polemic Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History:

Harris was summarizing a lengthy criticism of Enlightenment-era political thought, and the failure of the various radical philosophies that attempted to wipe away and reconstruct society from the ground up. I find the …

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