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The idea of “mostly functional programming” is unfeasible. It is impossible to make imperative programming languages safer by only partially removing implicit side effects. Leaving one kind of effect…
Be careful what you click for ...
This from an article in Verge on how the App Store is "more like a lottery" now, though an observation in the comments section shows the focus on apps is really too narrow, it's all of m…
Monthly recap: February 2016
February went by really fast. Went to a bunch of places, ate a bunch of stuff, but it's all a blur. Tara turned 15 months (so, one-twelfth of the distance to 15 years), and can spout little mono…
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The Internet isn’t from 1995. It’s from 1975. In 1995, we learned that a network beats a mainframe. Now, we’ve learned that a 2015 mainframe beats a 1975 network. http://urbit.org/blog…
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a bunch of crap-ass languages that still had the exact same abstractions as the underlying machine Steve Yegge, __Math Every Day"_…
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An argument can be made that the contemporary mainstream understanding of objects is but a pale shadow of the original idea. Further, it can be argued that the mainstream understanding of objects is,…
Personal Media Summary: January 2016
A bunch of miscellaneous stuff I came across in January 2016: * Cool archaeological stuff still happens, as seen here in this unearthing of a city that was “the Hong Kong of Egypt” during most of th…
Monthly recap: January 2016
Can't believe the first month of 2016 is already over. The big highlight (for me) is that I started running again, trying to keep it once a week on Sunday mornings. The current goal is to do a 14…
Personal Media Summary: December 2015
A bunch of miscellaneous stuff, in no particular order ... * Two books on deep history that I added to my far-in-the-future reading list: "On Deep History and the Brain" by Daniel Lord Sma…
A rainbow to start the week
So this appeared when I looked out of a window today ...…
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Not standardizing what we build works in favor of both the programmers and the vendors. The former are in love with the delusion of creativity, while the latter deem it as a means to lock in clients…
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At the last StrangeLoop there was only one presenter from the pre-1980’s: Joe Armstrong. His talk? “We can do better” Everyone else’s talk? “How to optimize or manage this part of the stack to make yo…