goodtobe

Re:The Myth of the Genius Programmer (I/O '09) on Sunday July 10, 2011 @03:07PM (#2748365)

Yeah. The speakers referred to academia as an example, where researchers hold their work very closely and release it only to discover that (for example) someone else had done something more general.

On another note, I thought it was encouraging to hear some smart folks acknowledge that the white-hot embarrassment was typical after a mistake, and that the issue is usually exaggerated in our own minds.

The Myth of the Genius Programmer (I/O '09)

Posted by goodtobe on Sunday July 10, 2011 @12:49PM
from the google.com dept.

http://www.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/MythGeniusProgrammer.html

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Re:Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:37PM (#2276600)

The link to the original paper seems to be broken.

I found this one on Kent's website: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pd...

Re:Merry Christmas, HN. Hackety Hack 1.0 is here. on Saturday December 25, 2010 @11:07AM (#2039031)

This looks really cool, but there seems to be a problem with character sets. All of the text within the program consists of '◻', even on the welcome screen and within the editor. This occurs on 10.6.4. Hopefully I haven't missed something obvious. EDIT: I managed to run a program, and the text in the dialog windows looks fine.