Radical Liberation

Libertarian, Christian Geekery from the Midwest by Stephen W. Carson.

I write for LewRockwell.com, blog at the LewRockwell.com Blog and the Mises Blog.

My wife Heather and I have a home page at RadicalLiberation.com.

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The Archive.
Thu Jun 25
Dan Lyons: Why We Need Steve Jobs | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com
“Cook is a great manager, a whiz when it comes to managing supply chains and keeping the trains running on time. He is vital to Apple. Jobs cannot do what he does. But neither can Cook do what Jobs…
Tue Jun 9
Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument
Geeks, as a general rule, are pretty easy-going. We like to think things through, so passionate confrontations aren’t commonplace for us. When we get well and
Sun Jun 7
Code Collector Pro
“Code Collector Pro provides the best solution for organising, using and sharing your code snippets.” Heard about this .on the MDN show.
Mon May 4
“ As the trend in technology moves further towards “open source,” where every user can access the underlying source code of a product, the press becomes more addicted to anonymous and “closed” sourcing, where the reader is expected to accept every claim at face value with no ability to assess the credibility of the source. S.M. Oliva, The Fall of Old Media, Continued - Mises Economics Blog
Sun May 3
“ Legalism is as much a danger to the Church as [theological] liberalism. Rev. Wayne Carson (my Dad)
Sat May 2
Level & Tap
Beautiful photos with easy printing and optional framing.
“ The best camera is the one that’s with you. Chase Jarvis
Thu Apr 2
Cultural Literacy: A Reading List for Beginners
Austro-libertarians often rightly complain about the economic illiteracy of traditional conservatives and most mainstream political commentators. I am no exception. In my own classes I have to spend…
Tue Mar 10
Kent Beck: Meeting commitments vs. testing and refactoring: false dichotomy

Kent Beck responds to an attack from Andrew Binstock:

Removing the inflammatory emotional words from the above, I get: “Kent Beck [Bob can answer for himself] supports testing and refactoring in ways that don’t advance the project.” What?

Sat Mar 7
Untitled Document Syndrome by John Gruber

If you want to understand why they call him “Chairman Gruber” read this great example of his writing. I’m not sure exactly how to explain what he does that is so important for the Mac community, but it has something to do with making ultimately simple points that seem obvious to everyone once he makes them but were not at all obvious before he makes them:

Everything on your computer is ultimately saved somewhere in the file system. But that doesn’t mean that you want to handle the actual filing by hand for everything. You don’t really want to know a lot of things about the specific technical details of how your data is saved, or if you did, you’d write your own app.