I personally have a very difficult time understanding how anyone ever got by using just a slide rule, yet the Apollo astronauts took them to the moon to make any calculations there that they needed to. I sit there and think that it requires someone to examine the distance between two marks on the rule [...]
In the past year, I’ve finally started carrying a thumbdrive around on my keychain, and I’ve tried to fill it up with all the essential tools and programs that a good dev should have with him at all times. Because the drive will be used on multiple Windows computers, I need to have programs that [...]
In the one and only philosophy class I was ever required to take in college, the professor defined philosophy as:
The sustained effort to think clearly.
Now, granted, this was an intro class, so we also delved into the different “branches” of philosophy, like metaphysics, aesthetics and epistemology. However, his original definition of philosophy is what stayed [...]
If sci-fi and fantasy has taught us anything, it’s that we should never judge anything by its size. In fact, there’s even a geeky principle called The Bishonen Line which is:
…the tendency of monster creatures (especially evil ones) to become big and disfigured as they increase their power, then suddenly shrink back down to human [...]
So, I’ve recently made the commitment to myself to update this blog twice a week, and, thus far, I’ve been able to stick to my commitment. But, I do have to ask myself: why does the world need yet another software blog?
So, these are the reasons I’m blogging, both as a note to myself and [...]
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