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Monthly Archive February, 2009

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Mark Mzyk February 27, 2009

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says that a person’s language affects how they think.  Recently, at RubyRX, I heard Neal Ford speak.  He brought this idea up, only he didn’t apply it to spoken languages, but to programming languages.  His assertion was that:
More powerful programming languages give you new and different abstractions to work with so that [...]

Programming - 11 Comments


Observations from the ER

Mark Mzyk February 15, 2009

This past Monday I sliced open my finger while making dinner.  I don’t recommend this as a way to start off the week.  I opted not to use my brain and the result was a sharp knife running across my finger along with the realization that sometimes the way movies portray a stabbing isn’t that [...]

General - 0 Comments


State of the Blog

Mark Mzyk

Running, but the author is frustrated.
The upgrade to Wordpress 2.7.1 did not go well.  It initially caused all the feeds on this blog to die.  Restoring to a back up for some reason did not fix this.
In the end, it appeared to have something to do with running the wp-cache plugin, permissions on the server, [...]

General - 2 Comments