Andrew Plotkin: If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is. That works for now, but what are we going to do for a base case when Hofstadter dies?
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05-Dec-12Deficits and Smoking
04-Dec-12Deficit smoking. Bonus: a just-so story about how we got to the fiscal speedbump.
Not Getting the Point..
04-Dec-12OK, my inbox is empty – Now what do I do with all the crap I pulled out of it? PS This is actually a test of disabling comment moderation, since it doesn’t play well with FB/Twitter integration. PPS If you are a spambot please disregard the above.
Hey Ya Hanukkah
03-Dec-12Still makes me laugh:Â http://tinyurl.com/bs3tz22 Though I see that it’s been Bowdlerized. Â I’m curious – does anybody but me remember the bit they edited out of the video at about 1:16-1:18?
An Evil Too Great To Name
30-Nov-12A File | Open dialog box that opens so slowly that it always loses exactly one character of typeahead, specifically, the first character of the file you’re trying to open…
In Praise of Reinventing the Wheel
24-Nov-12“Reinventing the wheel” is a mortal sin in programming. But some wheels need to be reinvented.
Pencils from yesterday
09-Nov-12Some quick pencils from yesterday. On reflection I like the eye and the sock puppet dragons the best.
Medicare Reform
06-Nov-12Medicare is simultaneously two things — first, an “insurance program” which we use to fund health care for the elderly; second, a price schedule and system of subsidies for medical education. Â We don’t do ourselves any favors in combining the two; it makes substantive reform all the more difficult.
First World Problem
04-Nov-12I just slid my finger up the margin of a real physical paper book and then for a second I experienced a sense of annoyance that it was not scrolling.
David Allen @ Claremont Colleges TEDx
02-Nov-12The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx? The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx and David Allen came? The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx, David Allen came, and I didn’t find out about it until afterwards? Dammit.