Audio-bookery
I read books very rarely these days, or rather very slowly, sometimes just a page or two a day. One of the ways I do "read" regularly is orally rather than visually, by listening to 10-15 mi…
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That is the sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT “professionals” who wouldn’t recognize so…
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I think the usual theory is that good data will overwhelm bad data. The problem is that assumes that the people entering bad data are outnumbered by folks willing to put in the effort to put in good d…
Experiences in framing
There was a painting we bought during December 2013 in New Orleans that had been lying around in a roll in the trunk of my car. A year and half later, it's finally up. I've hung up photograph…
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From a usenet posting little less than a decade ago, something that explains a common pattern in "high-level flame wars" on the internet ... the intelligence is being perverted in the servi…
A weekly recap of reading ...
... would be a great idea! Here is something I found from ten years ago on The Rad Geek People's Daily: It should be a matter of one or a few paragraphs. There’s no commentary above and beyond…
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In 2015, cryptocurrencies will stop being viewed as having “one bad year” — and start being viewed for what they are: modern-day Beanie Babies for ultra-libertarian math nerds. It’s stunning to me how…
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That people keep discovering crazy ways to do new things in C++ (that were previously considered impossible) is both amazing and horrible. Maurice Bos…
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It follows that functional programming has little to do with functional notation. It is a trivial and pointless task to rearrange some piece of symbolism into prefixed operators and heavy bracketing.…
Amateur iPad art ...
There are chunks of thirty minutes when the baby is sleeping, that are the new "productivity zones" for me. Since I was introducing my mom to ArtRage, I decided to try it out myself. One of…
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Of all the lessons I’ve learned, there is one that can summarize them all in 3 simple words: everything is terrible. This text is an attempt to recount some of the hard-earned lessons I have ended up…
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the global programming community, is fashion-driven to a degree that would embarrass haute couture designers from New York to Parisin the real world fashion trumps all. Steve Yegge, in the foreword t…