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Something random I made with ArtRage on an iPad ...…
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I see a great future for very systematic and very modest programming languages. E W Dijkstra (1972)…
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Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Fred Brooks…
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Math, you might say, is a conspiracy theorist’s dream: it’s the one part of life where, when you see things match up, the odds are excellent that it’s not just a coincidence, that there is a deep expl…
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So what good are they at all? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396950…
The mysterious affair of the price discrepancy
Have been putting off watching Series 13 of Poirot because (1) I have less free time these days, and (2) I don't want it to end :( I looked at ways to watch it legally on the three major platform…
The excellent absurdity of Indiana Jones
Watched the "refrigerator scene" on YouTube and saw this comment in the stream that just about sums it up: And you're okay with all of that, but once Indy goes into a lead-lined fridge…
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The old-time Unix culture has largely reinvented itself in the open-source movement. Doing so saved us from extinction, but it also means that the problems of open source are now ours as well. Eric S…
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My ideal for the future is to develop a file system remote interface (a la Plan 9) and then have it implemented across the Internet as the standard rather than HTML. That would be ultimate cool. – Ke…
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Although the early years in the twenty-first century seem to be favoring the Lisp-school philosophy, I predict the balance of the century will belong to the Fortran-school programmers who are able to…
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Apropos of the recent article on how "Googling for stuff makes you feel smarter", here is Umberto Eco on something similar: vertigo of accumulation (sound familiar?)…
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Novelty…