November 2009
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L Peter Deutsch in Coders At Work
Seibel: I think Larry Wall described it [LISP] as a bowl of oatmeal with fingernail clippings in it.
Deutsch: Well, my description of Perl is something that looks like it came out of the wrong end of a dog. I think Larry Wall has a lot of nerve talking about language design—Perl is an abomination as a language. But let's not go there.
Nov 1st
October 2009
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“John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people...”
– Isaac Asimov in The Relativity of Wrong.
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Oct 24th
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Oct 22nd
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Oct 20th
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“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.”
Oct 18th
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Oct 14th
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Chromium. Issue 22410: wontfix. →
Toolstrips will be disabled on all platforms before Chromium beta launch. :-( Too bad, I really liked the idea.
Oct 12th
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High-order map implementation in JavaScript
I was writing simple JavaScript the other day and, to make sure that my code works in all browsers, instead of using Array.map, I wrote a trivial map implementation myself. Then, just out of curiosity, I wrote two more implementations and posted them on StackOverflow to see what other fellow programmers think. Here’s my original implementation, pretty simple: var map = function(arr, func)...
Oct 12th
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“Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full of shit....”
– Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Oct 11th
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Oct 5th
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So You’re Moving to San Francisco →
Oct 5th
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Oct 3rd
“Oh, well, I always hate computers. I don’t think we’ve really made...”
– Brad Fitzpatrick (from his interview for Coders At Work)
Oct 1st