I’m reading Data Cleaning Pocket Primer in which the author mentions the “Four Cs” for code samples: they must be Clear, Concise, Complete, and Correct.
Four Cs for code samples
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Category Archives: Programming
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky
I learned a few things about spreadsheets from You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky.
JavaScript strings
I learned some things I didn’t know about strings in JavaScript over here: How big is a JavaScript string?
It’s Just Data
This was fun: Every Clojure Talk Ever.
Performance Numbers Worth Knowing
Today I discovered Performance Numbers Worth Knowing. It is what it says on the label.
William Kahan on floating point
Today I found myself reading William Kahan’s homepage after having waded through An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point.
Two star programming
Was referred to this one by my mate bsandro about how to effectively use pointers to pointers: Two star programming.
Subnormal number
This came across my desk today: Subnormal number.
PoC || GTFO
lol. My new books arrived:
These are hilarious and fun. The content is available free online on archive.org. The supplementary files are in the same place. (Some of the PDF files are ZIP files!)