Falling in Love with Scheme
Since I have some three months before I start my computer science course at college, I decided that I’d get a head start and learn some real computer science (not just programming) before I get...
View ArticleThe Hardware Software Interface
One of my Computer Science professors recently lent me the book Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Design Interface written by two pioneers in the field of computer hardware:...
View ArticleHope, scarred and bleeding
“The Heavens burned, the Stars cried out. And under the ashes of infinity, Hope, scarred and bleeding, Breathed it’s last.” Ulatempa Poetess Elegy for the Commonwealth Andromeda The International Lisp...
View ArticleThinking about Documentation
My friend Tycho Garen recently wrote a post about appreciating technical documentation. As he rightly points out technical documentation is very important and also very hard to get right. For someone...
View ArticleLanguage paralysis
It’s winter break which means that I have a good amount of free time on my hands. Though I’m all in favor of sitting around and doing nothing, I do get bored after a few days of that and tend to look...
View ArticleSunday Selection 2011-02-20
Reading Is Scheme faster than C? The cheapest way to make your code faster is to throw more hardware at it. But for a cash-stripped college student reworking the algorithm is probably a better idea....
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