May 2009
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Would you mind
starting with whatever relevant stuff you are going to address? I might not be listening till the end…
(on conferences)
Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of... →
Nomads
Nomadic people, (from the Greek: νομάδες, nomádes, “those who let pasture herds”), also known as nomads, are communities of people that move with cattle from one place to another, rather than settling down in one location. They aren’t renown for their coding abilities, reliable electricity being hard for them to come by, but give them a place to plug their laptops into and...
“time is not a line but a series of now-points”
– Taisen Deshimaru
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Exceptions
and what to do with them. Quoting from an interesting article over at theregister.co.uk:
If you are running as a GUI program, now’s the time to pop up a modal message box. It doesn’t really matter what text you put in it, because the user will ignore it.
A refinement, especially popular with Delphi programmers, is to put up further, identical message boxes at a one half second interval,...
A brief history of programming languages →
“Anyone can become angry — that is easy; but to be angry with the...”
– Aristotle