TBB and Non-Integer Ranges
I’ve been using the Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library for a while now, and I finally figured out how to overcome one of the annoyances I had with...
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Hamas, Israel and Options
Hamas is the democratically elected government of the people of Gaza. Their charter calls for the complete and total destruction of Israel, a view their lead...
Bash: Passing Arguments with Quotes
Today I needed to write a bash script that eventually calls another program, passing all the arguments to it. It seemed like a simple enough task: just use $...
Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages and Marketing
The story of how I ended up reading The Hero of Ages is an interesting example of successful marketing in the 22’nd century.
Languages
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentall...
Active Learning
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls in...
If You Can’t Test It, You Can’t Program It
A well known axiom of business management is: “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. I believe there is a software development corollary:
New Origami Diagrams
I have uploaded many of the diagrams for models by Yehuda Peled, diagrammed by him, which were hosted on the old Origami Tips website, and who had no intern...
Programming by Coincidence
In their excellent book, The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas have a section on “Programming by Coincidence”. Although their book is jammed...
Origami Diagrams and Crease Patterns
These are some of the old diagrams from the old Origami Tips website: Models designed and diagrammed by: