I was pleased to see “the simplest tally starts with judgments about what counts” when reading the blurb for Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters. This is an idea I’ve had in mind for quite a while, and I’m happy to see it bubbling out into the mainstream. The final quote in the blurb was good too: “being in thrall to numbers is misguided and dangerous”.
I have just discovered TIS-100. So much fun! It came with my Level Up and Learn: Programming Games Humble Bundle. From Wikipedia:
TIS-100 is a programming/puzzle video game developed by Zachtronics Industries. The game has the player develop mock assembly language code to perform certain tasks on a fictional, virtualized 1970s computer that has been corrupted. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux personal computers in July 2015.
I stumbled upon phpSysInfo, a PHP library for system information. Haven’t actually used it, yet.
I’ve been reading through some of the material at Western Sydney University‘s Online Engagement and Teaching Hub. There’s a wealth of info there. Pedagogy is a passing interest of mine (I am not an expert!), that is, how we can most efficiently get ideas and knowledge out of our head and into the heads of others, with fidelity.
My favourite software development anecdote of all time: Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division, during the development of Windows 2000 by a 4,200 strong team of developers: “Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.” — The Motivator Behind the Windows 2000 Development Team, February 16, 2000
I just finished reading The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets. It’s about the limits to, and complexity of, theories about causation. I was going to say that it was “postmodern”, but I think instead I will say that it’s “ultramodern”.
I discovered the MagPi magazine. A Raspberry Pi magazine free in PDF format.
See The BEAM Reference Library for an interesting take on robotics.
See What is creating the generated/autoconf.h? for tips on how to generate autoconf.h for the Linux sources.
Instead of
gunzip < /proc/config.gz > .config
Use
cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) > .config