Monthly recap: December 2015
What a month ... and what a year! Big highlight of the month was Tara's first birthday party, which somehow went off better than I had expected (I plan not to have any more big birthday parties u…
Personal Media Summary: November 2015
November was a very happening month, media-wise. We spent a week in London, during which we made an unplanned visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and I found it uninteresting except for a couple…
When Ginsberg sold clothes
Came across this ironic contrast recently, through the miracle of the internet. A poster being sold on eBay, "pinned" by someone else on Pinterest, in turn scraped by Google Image search, sh…
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To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some mean…
Monthly recap: November 2015
November was a happening month: It ended with Tara turning ONE, and began with a week-long trip to London. The plane ride was a long-ish one (and clearly the last time we're going to travel withou…
Peak Experience ...
The Blockchain ...
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no one had penetrated the mysteries of eval and applybut the flaw remained in the jewelwhy on earth call it a functional language? Why not just base everything on FEXPRs and force evaluation on the re…
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Moore’s Law has reduced the cost of computers so much that programming is suddenly the limiting reagent in nearly everything in the economyAnd that’s the origin of “software engineering” https://news…
Personal Media Summary, October 2015
In no particular order: * The 90s are back! Next year will bring new episodes for both Twin Peaks and X-Files. * My wife gifted me tickets to the opening day show of the new Star Wars movie (trail…
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My thought in the 70s was that the Internet we were all working on alongside personal computing was a really good scalable design, and that we should make a virtual internet of virtual machines that c…
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wondered whether using m4 macros to configure autoconf to write a shell script to look for 26 Fortran compilers in order to build a Web browser was a bit of a detour https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?…