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Steve Yegge Story about Jeff Bezos: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Joel on Software Story about Bill Gates: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/…

Hear hear. Bill Gates is trying to kill malaria. He doesn't care about having the biggest number next to his name when he dies. He wants to be the guy who's known for killing hunge…

For some reason, when I started my software engineering career I got it into my head that I needed to learn as much as I could about programming languages. I learned ruby, perl5, p…

> So basically you're saying that it is a preferred solution to teach kids math poorly, let them develop insecurity and aversion towards it and then spent a lot of money to let the…

I really like type systems. I think that if you take the time to learn about type theory, then you are more likely to create better solutions (both with code and in life in general…

I'm not sure, but I remember seeing some research into using it for Haskell stream fusion (can't find the video, sorry). I believe that the basic idea was that not all rewrites end…

Yeah, I like the way you're going. I haven't spent much time thinking about how to fit in software engineering, but I did try to think about how to structure programming issues (wh…

Checkout the generic formula for any number of dimensions [1]. The function in the denominator is a factorial (except extended to work on decimals instead of just integers). The fu…

More or less. I'm suggesting a mechanism for why something like the Dunning Kruger effect might occur and where we are likely to see it occurring.

If you're an explorer and you live in a small valley, then you will slowly begin to believe yourself a better explorer as time goes on. But one day you will get to the edge of the …

I spent a couple years figuring out a certain problem. When I was done, it took me six months to be able to write up a blog series about it. I don't think autism has anything to do…

I'm 30% through writing a 10-20K word blog series about something that I've been working on for the last 6-8 years. I've probably written ~5K words already on blogs unrelated to my…

Apparently washing your hands also causes you to be more lenient. So AI probably shouldn't be used for sentencing, but that's more to do with all the stakeholders being clueless ab…

Cross pollination of disciplines also seems to bring out great ideas, which makes your (obviously first) proposal sound even better. Unfortunately, I feel this is similar to that o…

I would be really interested in someone elaborating on this idea "phd is an apprenticeship for researchers". Several people have insisted that I should go into a phd program, but w…

You're right I think, but what's actually interesting (I think at least) is that time in the gym is more likely to make you a significant social member of a certain group (gym => o…

I would be interested in some sort of elaboration or source citing here. For example what do you mean by "design". Ants aren't exactly encoding anything into silicon or filling boo…

Just read On Lisp and find a primer on Scheme macros. Then if you're still interested read Let Over Lambda. Few languages do macros like lisp, so it's worth looking at the macros t…

Newborn baby, unidentified deceased person, person in police custody who refuse to give name, feral children.