Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17nov2007
Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games, by Jesper Juul. I love such stuff.
The end of Netinfo, this may be the best change in Leopard.
degenerative, by Eugenio Tisselli is/was “a web page that slowly becomes corrupted. each time the page is visited, one of its characters is either destroyed or replaced.”
Alabaster moonshine
thunder burns at midnight
drinking firewater
with the devil’s daughter
— Lydia Lunch, Cisco Sunset
“Keine schwere Aufgabe”, lesenswertes Interview mit Arthur Fischer.
What Exactly Are You Trying To Prove?, “Certainly no major TDD proponent has ever stated that testing provides proof that your code is correct. That would be outlandish.”
How to demo software, by Joel Spolsky. Good points.
MinCaml, the compiler for a subset of The Programming Language ML. Implemented in less than 2000 lines of ML.
Delirium is just a disease of the night
and I’m just another daughter of darkness
stuck in this psycho-tropic wasteland
another wretched witch entranced
by the voodoo of the living dead
— Lydia Lunch, Disease Of The Night
BDD: Bug Driven Development, by Elizabeth Keogh.
A kind of magic? “Time after time, properly conducted scientific studies have proved that homeopathic remedies work no better than simple placebos. So why do so many sensible people swear by them?”
Why Did Symbolics Fail? , analysis by Dan Weinreb. Includes very readyworthy references.
Texas math books wrought with errors, “Reviewers have found 109,263 errors in sample copies of math textbooks to be used next fall in Texas. Many of the errors, spread out over 164 textbooks and online materials, are blamed on faulty translation from English to Spanish. WJW.