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Type Checking. This is a group of zealous academics (and their groupies and/or grad students) who believe that they can write programs that are smart enough to figure out what your program is trying t…
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the urge suddenly comes upon me to grow a long beard and stop showering and make a pilgrimage to MIT where I beg Richard Stallman to let me live in a cot in some hallway and work on GCC with him like…
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You know how to Program. You’re a Programmer. Now you just need to learn APIs and stuff Steve Yegge, “Rich Programmer Food”…
Monthly recap (August 2015)
This month went by fast. Tara is now regularly eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, which was unimaginable a while ago, and crawling/standing all over the place, which is a bit scary. Notable "firsts…
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no syntax, no redundancy, no typingno heirarchy. No files. No operating system. http://www.colorforth.com/1percent.html…
Getting Things Done, for Dummies
I've never really been very "organized" about anything (those who know me a bit can vouch for this), but I've had to get crap done recently, so I've been forced to come up with s…
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to most people, the major difference between git and Subversion is that there’s a web site attached to git. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-future-is-full-of-broken-machines.html…
Just a tree
Made with Brushes on an iPad…
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“Dr Tarver, I need to do a final year project but I can’t do any programming” https://web.archive.org/web/20070418005048/http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm…
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Ever notice how often writers use the word “priesthood” to describe the operations teams in charge of mainframes? Rudolf Winestock, “The Eternal Mainframe”…
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we just call it “the cloud” now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059557…
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No general procedure for bug checks will do. Now, I won’t just assert that, I’ll prove it to you. I will prove that although you might work till you drop, you cannot tell if computation will stop.…