Programmer’s Paradox

Obviously, I find the topic of ebooks and ebook readers fascinating, as I’ve talked about it twice now.  I’m now going to talk about it again.
Recently this Gizmodo article brought to light some facts I didn’t know about the current crop of ebook readers (This applies to Sony and Amazon. As for others, I don’t [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to the blog Futurismic I came across this article about a bot that was programmed that can pass the false belief test.  The test is typically passed in humans at about the age of four or five.  It basically consists of figuring out that other people see the world differently than you do.
In the [...]

Earlier I wrote a post on how it is now possible for a single person to have the power of Google because of all the technologies available.
Well, the NYTimes went out and implemented the idea before the ink was even dry on my post.  They’ve now proven it is possible, and their post makes it [...]

Michael Feathers has an interesting post up on the Beautiful Code blog.  In the post he notes the seeming oncoming rise of functional languages and then bemoans this because they are not object oriented and therefore cannot be easily tested.
Michael feels that a strength of object oriented programming is its ability to overwrite methods so [...]