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Jon Purdy writes blarticles on computing, language, and design.
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28 September 2011
How to Be Productive
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Blindingly Obvious Truths This is how to be productive. Most of these things are absurdly, staggeringly obvious. That’s kinda my style . ...
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27 September 2011
Simulation is Abstraction is Power
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A more abstract programming language is more powerful. This is one of precious few things that most software developers agree on. C is more ...
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22 September 2011
Tricky Programming Concepts Aren’t
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What Teachers do Wrong Teachers use subversive language. They say things like “this is a bit tricky” before introducing a concept. It’s in...
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05 September 2011
Turing Completeness is not Practical Completeness
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As a discussion comparing the relative merits of different programming languages grows longer, the probability of an appeal to Turing compl...
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29 July 2011
Oxymoronic: Computer Science & Software Engineering
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I think I'll kill two birds with this stone. At RIT, there are two main computing majors: Computer Science and Software Engineering. Bot...
On Brilliance
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You are brilliant, but you don't know that the following things are true: Your work is meaningless until proven meaningful; don't...
03 October 2010
A Walk in the Woods
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When I need to get some really good thinking done, I've learned that there's nothing better for me than to relax and avoid thinking ...
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