Abstract Heresies
Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
How many strings can you intern?
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Assuming a 32-bit OS and processor. Suppose we define INTERN to take a series of bytes with an upper limit on the number of bytes (say 128 ...
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You're a regular when...
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your picture appears on the web page of the pub you hang out at. That's me and the missus hanging out. Drop in if you want to talk ...
Monday, December 10, 2007
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I saw that Google is putting up $20M dollars as a prize for landing a rover on the moon. (See http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/ ) I was won...
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Origin of CAR and CDR
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“It was soon noticed that extraction of a subexpression involved composing the extraction of the address part with cwr and that continuing a...
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
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“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
In the Kingdom of Nouns
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It is an open secret in the Kingom of Nouns that the King himself has a half-wit, good-for-nothing brother. His name was expunged from the...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Consider this problem. You are running a high school and you suspect some gang activities, so you want to be on the lookout for people wear...
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