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Tuesday 5 February 2002

Insanity Test

Aha, Mr Ahrens pointed me to the "official" insanity test. It took me about 12 seconds to fail the test... http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/insane.html.
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Jeffrey Olson's A Day on the PCT

Don't know yet, how to make a relative link to a Story. So I'll link this one with an absolute URL: A Day on the PCT.

(Actually, it's one of Jeffrey Olson's Days.)

... the flowers were out in abundant, magnificent and awesome profusion. You could kneel and put your eyes at flower height and almost no green would show, just a sea of color.

And to think that people wonder sometimes, why we hike...
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Scala, D, Mondrian, Oz, Mercury, etc.

New programming languages to think about: Odersky's "Scala", and Walter Bright's "D". Odersky was one of the principal creaters of Pizza. Walter Bright wrote the C/C++ front end that I worked on at Apple before the NeXT merger occurred. Thanx to lambda for the Scala link, and to Dr Dobb's February 2002 issue for Walter's article.

Oh, and DDJ has an article about Mondrian, too.

Others I'd like to learn more about: Oz, Mercury, OCaml, Haskell, O'Haskell, Vyper ...
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BrassRing Job Fair

Went to the BrassRing job fair today in Santa Clara. Handed out a few resumes and talked to a few potential employers.

Penny stayed in the yard this time, even though I got back a bit after dark.
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