Three Cool Questions . . .
From an amazing talk given by Richard Hamming in 1986. I came across this a few months ago, but only sat down to read it today. VERY cool. [More]
View ArticleFocusing on the Wrong Stuff?
Reg Braithwaite posted an interesting article earlier this week looking back at the Lightweight Languages conference in 2002 and how it foreshadowed the changes in the programming landscape over the...
View ArticleAn Amendment to the Immgration Bill (We WANT Entrepreneurs)
If I were a US legislator and serious about increasing the wealth and competitiveness of the US economy, I might just propose an amendment to any immigration bill with the following broad structure ....
View ArticleOn Intelligence
I think this is a pretty good description of the smartest people I know (to pick but three). According to the article (to paraphrase), if you're not opinionated, you're not adding anything to the...
View ArticleThe REAL Future of Computing
While luddites such as myself continue to work on old fashioned technologies like application generation and software product lines that will be mainstream within the next few years (:->), I think...
View ArticleIf it isn't worth testing, it isn't worth coding . . .
One of the common arguments against Test Driven Development is that a lot of the code we write (simple getters and setters, dumb parameterized calls against a proven API, etc.) has behavior that is...
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