Topics on my particular interests.
A friend and associate, who recently started a potentially-commercial programming project of his own, asked me an interesting question the other day: […] Do you ever find you get discouraged when you try to code something and it doesn’t work, so you try a different way and it still doesn’t work? I’m finding I’m less …
Just saw a wonderfully-quotable phrase in an old Paul Graham essay: Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
It’ll be interesting to see how Apple responds to this. My bet: they’ll come out with lawyers a-blazin’. 😉 Though whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not is another story.
I can’t add much to this article, other than to say that whoever picked the URL it’s under had the right idea.
I’ve always heard that crime causes run-down neighborhoods, but it appears that, at least in part, it works the other way too.
In my recent side-project, Cpp-Markdown, I used a testing suite (developed by the author of another Markdown translator) as a guide to see what I needed to work on next, and to immediately show me when I broke something. It was a very nice way to write code… I could always see progress, and I …
It seems that I missed an excuse for a party yesterday.
Un-freakin’-believable. This is one of those things that I just have to shake my head at in wonder.
That and several other interesting “low-tech fixes for high-tech problems,” like getting more ink out of inkjet-printer cartridges.
This may be considered heresy by some, but for the first twenty years of my programming career, I never used a version control system. In fact, I barely even knew what one was. I’d heard of CVS, and I knew that there was something called Visual SourceSafe in Visual Studio, but I never saw the …
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