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{ Monthly Archives } August 2006

Alternatives to Closures (java)

Gafter and Gosling themselves have written a proposal to add closures to java7. If it happends, I’m switching to something else. That proposal makes Java a lot like Python. Except, of course, Python is a lot better at being pythonesque than java ever will be. duh. Here’s an example straight from the closure proposal: int(int) [...]

2006 08 26 programming Comments (6)

Why bloggers stop – overjustification is the prelude to the decline

Here’s an interesting essay that deals with motivation. Specifically, two observations about motivation: < ol>Explicit motivation easily replaces and pushes out implicit motivation (implicit motivation is doing it ‘for yourself’)Explicit motivation is easy to lose – and implicit motivation does not return For more details including a description of an experiment that tests this theory, [...]

2006 08 05 Uncategorized Comments Off