I don’t use FOO. It pisses me off. For those of you who haven’t been initiated into the cult of computer programming, FOO is the word you use when you want to indicate the genericness of the concept under consideration. It’s a shorthand for “whatever, this could be anything, so I’m just going to name [...]
Archives for August 2007
Cyborg
Cyborg (n) A person whose physical tolerances or capabilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by a machine or other external agency that modifies the body’s functioning; an integrated man-machine system. — The Oxford English Dictionary Okay, so now that we know what they are, think about the people you know. Any false hips? Any [...]
autolink v0.2
My wordpress plugin autolink has been updated! No longer will posts link to themselves, and also no longer will it change the capitalization of anything it finds. It has all the features I want, and none of the ones I don’t. Download it yourself as: autolink.zip
storage
–December 14, 2005 @ 19:17– RAID is too hard. People want their stuff to be backed up and not fail, but right now nobody does it. It would be really great if RAID were easy to set up and didn’t incur such a large startup cost, but right now it is unusable for me due [...]
Turducken
The hard part of computer science is not the programming, and it is not the initial ideas, it is the unshakeable consistency of the application of those ideas, and the way that we stuff these ideas inside each other to make towering layer cakes. I see this when I teach – it is easy to [...]
