April 2006 - Posts

• Blog Or Get Off The Pot

  I hate blogs. It's not that I hate them, really; I just don't like the "diary" format. It doesn't suit my needs very well. However, I have this day job, you know, just like you probably do. And that takes up most of my time. If there's... Posted Apr 21 2006, 06:28 AM by Stevey's Blog Rants

• Psh. Whatever!

  How the hell do I write stuff? It just comes out, like poop, and the result is usually nearly indistinguishable. Brad Pitt, in an interview, once said something like: "I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there in front of the camera.... Posted Apr 20 2006, 08:18 PM by Stevey's Blog Rants

• Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp

  It's been over four months since Eric Kidd posted his infamous Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP article. You know, the one that got approximately 6.02e23 comments, ranging from "I agree!" through "I hate you!" to "I bred them... Posted Apr 16 2006, 01:03 PM by Stevey's Blog Rants

• Software Needs Philosophers

  Software needs philosophers. This thought has been nagging at me for a year now, and recently it's been growing like a tumor. One that plenty of folks on the 'net would love to see kill me. People don't put much stock in philosophers these... Posted Apr 15 2006, 05:13 PM by Stevey's Blog Rants

• Math For Programmers

  I've been working for the past 15 months on repairing my rusty math skills, ever since I read a biography of Johnny von Neumann. I've read a huge stack of math books, and I have an even bigger stack of unread math books. And it's starting... Posted Apr 04 2006, 07:49 PM by Stevey's Blog Rants