This popped up on lobste.rs today: In defense of blub studies¸it’s an interesting read and links to some other interesting stuff, such as this.
Category Archives: Philosophy
Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
This popped up on Hacker News today: Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed? — interesting read. Light forces for life!
Meno’s Paradox
Today I learned about Meno’s Paradox which is a fallacy of equivocation. It was mentioned on page 26 of a Kindle book I’m reading: How to Take Smart Notes.
Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm
A quick video explaining research paradigms: Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm. There is also a longer video on the same topic.
The unrealized potential of federation
Today I read The unrealized potential of federation.
App Consoles
This discussion of App Consoles came up on Lobsters today.
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Some light reading before bed: The Critique of Pure Reason. I’ll be lucky if I get through the preface!
Programming Quotes
I came across these Programming Quotes over on cat-v.org today. Their Bumper-Sticker Computer Science is also good.
My favourite was “You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.” — Ken Thompson
You can’t tell people anything
Today I enjoyed reading You can’t tell people anything.
The End of OS X
Today I read The End of OS X. I particularly liked the bit about the Unix philosophy:
- Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new “features”.
- Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don’t insist on interactive input.
- Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don’t hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.
- Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you’ve finished using them.