What is the population of the earth? Approximately how many organisms are alive right now? We’re talking everything above viruses here. As long as it can self-reproduce and is biological and is a single organism, we’ll count it. All individuals of all species of all genii of all families of all orders of all classes [...]
Archives for January 2007
racist
A while back I participated in an online discussion and received the following batshit loony reply, all typos are [sic]: Simple. The Mexiacans are stealing the jobs from black people and other immigrants and jail birds that are here legally and need something to do. But looking on from the nice luxurious dorm room, I [...]
data structures
Data structures education is a total pain for both sides of the student/teacher education barrier. They are tough to explain, programming them is not trivial, and visualizing them is difficult. I argue that the first two are a function of the last one. The community seems to agree, but nobody has actually DONE anything about [...]
