This caught my eye on reddit: http://epsilondelta.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/programming-like-a-mathematician-ii-learning-new-languages/ My antennae began to...
... The way most people do... Skim through enough of the book/tutorial to figure out the basics of the syntax and to get something to run. Then copy and paste...
... And don't underestimate the utility of refactoring tools in helping people learn from examples. I used to hate the Microsoft example code found in MSDN and...
I think you might be onto something. I hadn't realise how subtle MS have been to use Pathology as an educational technique. Pathology (from Greek pathos,...
... Ah, now there's a can of worms. See, I can handle malloc. I can even handle platforms where you have to manually manage storage on the _stack_, never mind...
... I think there is. The thing that I take away from the Modernism/Post-modernism dichotomy is the issue of "grand narratives." I've always been troubled by...
That reminds me of the concept of the "mythos" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. My understanding of it was that the mythos is the unspoken rules...
... communities. Another technical community (with a hefty Modernist bias) has been musing on the Unix way, too. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1210 ...
http://www.brainhz.com/underhanded/ Although very different from scrapheap challenge, I like the 'deliberately using things in ways they shouldn't be' angle. ...
... What a lovely phrase 'odious utopianisms'--thanks for posting [1]. I have to admit I do have a soft spot for Mondrian :-) The review definitely got my mind...
... Well now, on the one hand there's the reto-utopians: wild-eyed bearded mystics offering to their neophites a glimps of the hidden mysteries that powered...
Isn't this the same Simon Jenkins who backed the Millenium Dome? It's true that Modernism failed in all sorts of ways, but it didn't fail totally. I'm writing...
... Interesting in a talk James Noble took a different perspective. He contrasted the Kay dream of a dynabook running everything off the Modernist Smalltalk to...
I was thinking more of the Apple approach to branding and presentation, rather than the messy internals underneath. Their view seems to be very much that...
Well, a lot of the "just works" experience comes from their tight control over what's inside the shiny shell. It will be interesting to see what happens to...
I'm just going to say something stupid off the top of my head. Apologies in advance. Modernism found God dead and chose to make logic into a god. And, like a...
Brian Marick has written that we are now in the third age of software development: The Age of the Scrapheap [1]. He suggests a Dump Picking [2] of the Month...
PoMoPro - the first international conference on postmodern programming Date: Sat 25th November (LONDON) BCS SPA Specialist Group Venue: BCS Davidson Building,...
...get busy with its built-in embedded functional language http://www.juiceanalytics.com/weblog/?p=239 What's nice about this is that it's real users finding...
This technique works well in Gnumeric and (I expect) in the Open Office spreadsheet as well. It's such a simple trick but so effective. My favourite kind of...
... I suppose the conference would have many different cool t-shirts put together by the attendees by stitching together the cool t-shirts they got at other...
Feel free to buy a "My X went to London and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt on the way to the conference and we'll be happy to cross out London with...
Hi Michael, many thanks for the blog! last time I checked, 7 of the 40 places were taken - without much publicity. now you've blogged I expect we'll get more....
Everyone, I'm not sure whom I should thank aside Andy and Ivan for organizing a great conference last Saturday. I much enjoyed my time with you all, I got a...
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