thascales

Simple, elegant, effective. I know how I'm spending my evening...

Ooh! I'm really good at this game!

Well, Firesheep got an NYT article, who knows! :)

Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.

Well, I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. I'm running under the assumption that people who use Foursquare and other such geolocation services are fully aware that they can be used to find out where they've been. If that assumption is false, I think I'm going to become a hermit.

Ah, looks like I need to catch up on my reading!

Timecube strikes back?

But science and the acquisition of knowledge is all about pushing deeper into the implementation. We can't look at something like gravity and say, 'yep, that seems to work fine, adheres to its interface, we don't really need to know how it works, just that it passes its tests (apples fall, helium balloons float above oxygen, etc)'. We can't leave it there, because we have to know the implementation. We'll never improve if we don't. And we still haven't nailed it, but that's no excuse to stop.

It's like a beginning programmer looking at a hash table object and hitting 'view source'. What kind of programmer would he be if he didn't want to see behind the curtain at least once? How could he be expected to excel?

It does seem like basing your view of the Universe on 2000-year-old bureaucracy is a recipe for disappointment.

It's basically a full stop. Saying 'this is inconsistent, but I trust that it's fine' is basically akin to saying 'I don't want to analyse this any further'. Which, to the non-Christian, is akin to saying 'I think it might fall to pieces if I try to critically analyse it'.

This is something colour-coding could help with. Red meaning busy, some gentler colour meaning quiet.

I'm chipping away at rewriting my uni's timetabling system. I am very full of caffeine.