Rob Lanphier robla

I was heavily involved in the IETF and the W3C back in the late 1990s, when "the web" was new (and when the "W3C" was new). Back then, there was a big debate about the wisdom of "Postel's law", which I strongly suspect was a big part of the rationale for the W3C forking from the IETF. After the failure of HTML 2.0 (published by the IETF) to be published quickly enough to stop the creation of de facto standards by Netscape and Microsoft, since HTML 2.0 doesn't have very many features in it, but Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers had many more features. The W3C went down the path of insisting that compliant implementations should "halt and catch fire" (so to speak) when they published the XML specification in 1997. The "XHTML" experiment proved that organizations don't have that much authority, and that anyone who purports to be a "compliance cop" from one of those or

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I am robla on github.
I am robla (https://keybase.io/robla) on keybase.
I have a public key ASCNQx8NKhpIwCSsDw5BeXa9ojdNLNBkYrdpMcZKOa9ZLAo

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	{"title": "Tennessee capitol example"}
	{"description": "Hypothetical example of selecting capitol of Tennessee, frequently used on Wikipedia and electowiki. The proportion of voters is loosely based on the people who live in the metropolitan areas of the four largest cities in Tennessee, and the numeric ratings are based on crow-flying mileage to the city from the other metro areas."}
	# See https://electowiki.org/wiki/Tennessee_example for illustrations
	=Memph:[Memphis, TN]
	=Nash:[Nashville, TN]
	=Chat:[Chattanooga, TN]
	=Knox:[Knoxville, TN]
	# -------------------------
	# Ratings are 400 miles minus crow-flying mileage to city
	42:Memph/400>Nash/200>Chat/133>Knox/45

	#!/bin/bash

	function print_24hr_string () {
	# Wrapper around "date" command for printing 24hr datetime
	# 1: "tzolson": timezone id from the Olson DB
	tzolson="$1"
	# 2: "placename": more relevant timezone label than Olson's choices
	placename="$2"
	# 3: "fdate" is "function date" for date passed to this func
	fdate="$3"

	#!/usr/bin/python3
	# Script for generating an answer to this:
	# <https://www.reddit.com/r/Voting/comments/aqsxft/condorcet_winner_from_counts_of_ranks_possible/>

	import json
	import itertools
	from collections import Counter

	innerperm = [x for x in itertools.permutations(['P1', 'P2', 'P3'], 3)]

	#!/bin/bash
	# Very crude tool to tally the output of sfballotparse.py for 2018 in particular
	# (with hardcoded last names for the top 3 candidates this past election)

	votefile=${1}

	if [ ! -f "${votefile}" ]; then
	echo "${votefile} not found"
	exit
	fi

	47 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1
	4 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2
	38 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&ELLEN+LEE+ZHOU=3
	31 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&JANE+KIM=3
	29 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&LONDON+BREED=3
	27 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&MARK+LENO=3
	20 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&MICHELLE+BRAVO=3
	8 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&None=3
	15 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=2&RICHIE+GREENBERG=3
	1 AMY+FARAH+WEISS=1&ANGELA+ALIOTO=3

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# MIT License
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2018 Rob Lanphier
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

	#!/bin/bash
	# sqlite3-csv: dump an table from sqlite db as csv

	summary="$0: dump an sqlite db as csv"
	usageline=" usage: $0 thisdb [thistable]"
	usage="${summary}\n\n${usageline}\n\n"

	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	printf "$usage"
	exit;