Monthly ArchiveFebruary 2007
Programming Languages &Science 26 Feb 2007 12:25 am
Daniel P Friedman: A Celebration
Video lectures from Daniel P Friedman’s 60th birthday are online. I haven’t gotten to watch many of them yet, but the video by Gerald Sussman was great.
Memorable quotes include: (these are paraphrases actually)
I don’t use Mathematica, I use my own stuff, but I don’t much care for Mr. Wolfram.
I read Arnold’s Classical Mechanics book. Arnold was a son of a bitch, look what he wrote in this footnote.
Minsky said that programming languages were a great medium for expressing sloppily formulated ideas. This is in direct opposition to the guys who want to talk to me about Type Theory all day.
Miscellaneous &Programming Languages &Software &Words 19 Feb 2007 12:11 pm
Capistrano Manual Website as PDFs
Since the Ruby on Rails Manuals site seems to be permanently down, I created a zip file of pdfs of the website from the last version on the Internet Archive WayBack Machine as of June 2006.
There is also a handy cheat sheet for Capistrano that someone made.
Humor &Math &Science 10 Feb 2007 12:45 pm
Classic XKCD strips

Some amusing comics from the XKCD strip, found at Classic XKCD strips. I particularly like the one above. And it is true, check at Google Calculator. But what does it mean?
This was originally found via a Silicon Valley Patterns mailing list post about a programming puzzle at: Facebook for their engineering candidates.
Humor 03 Feb 2007 08:35 pm
The Force Arrests Chewbacca
Miscellaneous 01 Feb 2007 08:07 pm
Bottle Deposit Puzzle
Here’s a fun little puzzle, just to get the blog flowing again.
If a bottle with a deposit costs $1.10, and the bottle costs a dollar more than the deposit, how much is the bottle worth?
For the answer, run this ruby program:
puts "#{?i} pennies"
or, just look up the ascii value for ‘i’ and you have the penny amount.