The Olympics are over. However during, it annoyed me how the media outlets ranked the medal totals either counting total medals or counting total golds. Neither option accounts for the relative values of the medals. The former treats all medals as equal, whereas the former disregards the value of the other two medal colors. As others have proposed, a weighted medal count makes the most sense, the simplest being gold = 3, silver = 2, and bronze = 1. With that the top five rankings are as follows:
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I like to use my iPhone for viewing podcasts. However, managing them through iTunes leaves much to be desired because some podcasts I like to view and then trash them, while others I like to archive and have synced at all times. iTunes does not have an obvious way to set this up.
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I like Ruby, but I don’t like its performance, so I’m really anticipating Ruby 2.0. Meanwhile, I’ve been dabbling in Python. Learning a new language and comparing and contrasting them, really helps with determining each language’s strengths and weaknesses. For example, you can easily update all your Ruby gems. Unfortunately, python doesn’t have a direct way of doing this using easy_install. Very odd. I tried using the shell script method, but for whatever reason it just didn’t work as advertised. So I wrote a bash alias to take care of it.
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January, last year, I had thought perhaps my switch to Apple would begin with the first rev iPhone. By the time the iPhone debuted it didn’t provide a good enough value proposition for me then. Fast-forward to July 12th, and you would have found me standing in line to buy an iPhone 3G.
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