Title stolen from here: Each month is an annually renewable technical or personal challenge: * Go analog. * Stay healthy. * Embrace the uncomfortable. * Learn a new programming language. * Auto…

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. “Roman Jakobson” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0…

In accepting freedom of speech, we can’t hide from its consequences - which in this case is millions of terabytes of unreliable information, badly designed and clumsily written. We have failed our own…

If I can operate Google, I can find anything… Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people co…

This kind of functionality (complex, nested loop unrolling) is something that is either implemented in your language’s compiler, or forces you to manually mess up your code (or code generate) http://…

From this post: Give me a profession remotely close to programming in the following ways: * Little or no required education * Good compensation, even for mediocre performers * Millions of jobs *…

Computer science inherited its present conceptual foundations from a branch of pure mathematics that, historically, had been exploring the fundamental nature of mathematical computation since before t…

Many of the structures studied by mathematicians are algebraic. Many of the structures studied by computer scientists are coalgebraic (eg. the web itself can be seen as a vast coalgebraic structure).…

From these slides: * Steal from mathematics * Types are not classes * Functions are things * Composition everywhere…

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en…

Everything by Alan Perlis is atleast slightly profound. Here’s number 65: Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent t…