Updated: 10/13/2003; 9:11:47 PM.
John Lambert
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002

"On "The Bachelor," [31-year-old] Michel, a management consultant from San Francisco, took 25 women on elaborate dates, slowly eliminating them like tribe members on "Survivor." In the end, he did what a lot of men would: He picked the 23-year-old blonde with the fake breasts." -- MSNBC

Yet, as a fan of "Blind Date" (which, based in LA, [insert joke here]), "The Bachelor" didn't appeal to me at all.


8:08:59 PM    comment []  



Americans willing to except pseudoscience? My horoscope said there would be bad news today...
7:02:06 PM    comment []  


"But when compared with similar software on Windows and MacOS, most people find the OSS stuff just feels klunky." -- Slashdot comment

Seriously: Linux, linux, linux. Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Windows, WinXP, Windows. Even Windows looks klunky next to OS X.


6:11:52 PM    comment []  


Now this is pretty cool: free email advice from "elders", a very 21st century tribal kind of thing.

Why do people call Psychic Hotlines?


3:26:16 PM    comment []  


Java packages use a physical file layout to form conceptual structure. C#'s conceptual structure (namespaces) is independent of the physical file layout. C++ splits the difference with header files and source files in different physical locations but representing the same conceptual structure. I like C#'s approach the best, but the real question is, why do I think about these things at 4:40 am?


4:40:23 AM    comment []  


I was an intern Program Manager at Microsoft a couple of summers ago. I keep thinking about "what's strategic" for my thesis, "cutting features", and the "features/resources/time" triangle. I can't get it out of my head. Maybe that's a good thing?
4:34:50 AM    comment []  


The weird thing about programming in two (or more) languages more or less simultaneously is that I tend to transfer concepts between them when it may or may not be appropriate. MyJavaClassesLookLikeThis and so do some of my C++ classes (instead_of_like_this). Same with methods/member functions, etc. Also, I went overboard with packages in Java and I ended up doing the same with namespaces in C++.

That's just whining. The real problem is when I start to depend on things in one language but not the other: "Where's my finally block?", "What is this compareTo? It just needs operator< and that's it." "Where's my using keyword?"


12:38:33 AM    comment []  


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