Aug

17

How to Read Blogs

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Scott comments on the update frequency of blogs: daily, I run thru a list of links and when I suspect they won’t be updated, I just skip over them.
Like Scott, I also don’t like aggregators. I played with them for a while, but they just didn’t fit the way I like to read, and, yes, [...]

Aug

17

More Dijkstra

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We now know that electronic technology has no more to contribute to computing than the physical equipment. We now know that a programmable computer is no more and no less than an extremely handy device for realizing any conceivable mechanism without changing a single wire, and that the core challenge for computing science is a [...]