24 December 2008

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator: "SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence."

18 December 2008

Getting Things Done - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Getting Things Done - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them externally. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks."

Intel X25-M solid state disk getest (2/7) | Core | Tweakers.net

Intel X25-M solid state disk getest (2/7) | Core | Tweakers.net: "Write amplification"

17 December 2008

Linus Torvalds: "C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."

15 December 2008

Video Game Design Between 1990-2008 | Webdesigner Depot

Video Game Design Between 1990-2008 | Webdesigner Depot

Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Wikiquote

Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Wikiquote: "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

06 December 2008

Let's talk about Python 3.0

Let's talk about Python 3.0: "There’s an old joke, so old that I don’t even know for certain where it originated, that’s often used to explain why big corporations do things the way they do. It involves some monkeys, a cage, a banana and a fire hose."