Programmer’s Paradox

Today’s quote comes from CoffeeGhost.net:
PHP is simple to set up for web apps and easy to learn. Nearly all web hosts support it and there are many easy to install applications (like, for example, WordPress). But it has a lot of quirks and inconsistencies (too long to go into here) that it doesn’t need to [...]

Earlier I wrote a post on what I consider to be the extreme pricing of the Kindle version of the book The Algorithm Design Manual.  Richard was kind enough to provide a comment on my views, but I’ve been lazy and slow in responding to Richard, so instead of posting a comment in response to [...]

Stress, for various reasons, has been building up in my life lately, and I don’t feel like I’m dealing with it very well.  So I’m skipping the long post I had planned for today and instead I’m providing you with these links on garbage collection:
A quick intro to garbage collection
A little more about garbage collection
Explaining [...]

Previously I’ve written about the corporate culture at Google and how it isn’t likely to be an easy thing to emulate.  Today at work, my coworker, Jackson, showed me this post that links to a slide show that delves into Google’s internal processes.  Another post that I recently read was Steve Yegge’s post on Good [...]

Today, I read Steve Yegge’s newest blog post on what you need to know for an interview at Google, should you choose to interview there (he also generalized the content, so it should be valid for almost any computer science position).
In the post, Steve mentions the book The Algorithm Design Manual.  Being the curious type, [...]