Archive for October, 2006
Found a blog
Just found Rob Harwood’s blog, which posts about technical matters similar to mine. This is a placeholder to remind me to check it out later.
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 27th, 2006 under Software Engineering.
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OOPSLA ‘06: Initial Thoughts
Sitting on Powell’s books (not the technical one) in Portland with about 30 minutes of battery time left on the laptop. I thought I might write up some initial thoughts from the conference.
First of all, I should say that I didn’t attend much of it. I was around for most of Tuesday and […]
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 25th, 2006 under Software Engineering.
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Metabolic Rates and Scale
Just got a couple of links from the U. Michigan CSRG mailing list:
All Creatures Great and Small
Ecology’s Big Hot Idea
From the second:
Wouldn’t it be good if there were a simple theory that used life’s shared fundamentals to explain its large- scale regularities, via its diversity of individuals? In the past few years, […]
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 22nd, 2006 under Science.
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Post Secret; Stay of Execution
A random web search brought me to Stay of Execution.
One of the posts linked to Post Secret — a site which catalogues the secrets written on postcards and sent to the blog author’s address.
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 22nd, 2006 under Culture.
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Northern Lights
Just saw this featured video on YT:
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 13th, 2006 under Meta.
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Java vs Ruby vs Python vs Perl
I’m struggling with what language to use for the set of tools at work. The default choice is perl because it’s a sysadmin culture, and because perl is what the existing systems are written in, and because the person commissioning the work knows perl better than any other language.
I have many years of experience […]
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 7th, 2006 under Technology, Software Engineering.
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