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{ Monthly Archives } February 2007

Ah, yes. TCO and Programming.

This guy gets it – a generic rant against the notion that less characters must be better programming. It’s got enough humour to keep you reading, too.

2007 02 19 programming Comments Off

Finally!

A way to sanely do IO and imperative work in Haskell, and a way to sanely do complex modelling in java, in one convenient marriage.

2007 02 15 programming Comments Off

Companies can be redeemed.

This is nintendo? – the company that openly screwed game producers in the most morally corrupt way possible and didn’t give a damn, riding the coattails of a decade worth of virtual monopoly? There are so many companies out there (like, say, Disney and their crusade to destroy culture by appropriating it. Q: how long [...]

2007 02 15 Uncategorized Comments Off

Presenting (and speaking) takes practice – a lot of it.

Listen to one expert’s opinion on this.

2007 02 15 presenting Comments Off

Wow. THAT’s how you teach stuff!

Some professor from Kansas University has prepared a lecture-like construct that frankly blew my socks off. 4:31 minute of didactic genius. If (when!) we pick up ed-me again, this is going to be my idolized example: THATS how lectures should be. It’s just 4:31 minutes of your time, I promise you’ll be hooked, and it [...]

2007 02 04 education Comments (2)

Where are we going again?

A long time ago, Object Oriented was seen as the fix for what all that was wrong in Functional programming land (after all, OO hasn’t been around nearly as long as the functional paradigm). Yet now a lot of articles insinuate that Functional is a step up. What’s going on here? some historic perspective courtesy [...]

2007 02 02 programming Comments (2)

Well, that is a workable alternative…

I’m against a large number of frivolous laws, most easily observed in traffic law, that employ relatively small (below 1000 euros) fines to try and ‘fix’ the mindset of the people. If the money goes to ‘fixing’ externalities, sure, but that almost never happends. Most importantly, the police hypocritically break these laws all the time [...]

2007 02 02 politics Comments Off

Excellent reality check article

A nice, balanced look at the pros of typing. It foregoes the usual duds like ‘you have fewer type mismatch errors’, but digs into the real benefits.

2007 02 01 programming Comments (2)

Unicorn Chaser!

Just in case that last post left a sour taste: This should cheer you up!.

2007 02 01 Uncategorized Comments Off

Charity – stop it. now.

Here’s an article on a village in Kenya where just about every girl, from 10 and up, has at least one child already. And it’s not just Kenya; most of the african nations (and pretty much all of the ones considered ‘poor’) have a culture which is totally incapable of stemming their flow of newborns. [...]

2007 02 01 politics Comments (8)