Tag: To Read

Friday, March 2, 2007

1. Hillary Clinton's hidden thesis - MSNBC.com (to finish reading).

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Thursday, December 7, 2006

1. Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered - Los Angeles Times (via LGF). To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [History, Islam, Opinions/Politics, To Read]

2. The Changing Workplace - Smashing the Clock.

   At most companies, going AWOL during daylight hours would be grounds for a pink slip. Not at Best Buy. The nation's leading electronics retailer has embarked on a radical--if risky--experiment to transform a culture once known for killer hours and herd-riding bosses. The endeavor, called ROWE, for "results-only work environment," seeks to demolish decades-old business dogma that equates physical presence with productivity. The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.

   To read. From what I understand it's been extremely successful.

     ¶ (1) Tags: [Jobs, To Read]

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

1. Israel Matzav: A history lesson (via LGF).

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Monday, July 17, 2006

1. Wes Felter:

   Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat: The camel has two humps [PDF]. Some people can learn to program and some can't. A UK graduate student thinks he has a test that can tell them apart, even before they've taken a day of classes. More interesting to me are the references asserting that "those who were successful (in programming) had a mechanical understanding of the way that the language implementation worked" and that "people who know how their programs work do better than those who do not". When I was taking CS (in Haskell, C, C++, Lisp, and 68K asm) I felt that this topic was virtually ignored, and Java must make it even worse today.

   To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Programming, To Read]

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

1. Formulas:Honor System - WoWWiki. To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [To Read, World of Warcraft]

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

1. The adventures of scaling, Stage 1 (via Ned Batchelder).

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Programming, To Read, Web]

Monday, March 13, 2006

1. IBM developerWorks: Exploring Active Record.

   Active Record [is] the persistence engine behind Ruby on Rails. Active Record bucks many Java conventions, from the typical configuration mechanisms to fundamental architectural choices. The result is a framework that embraces radical compromises and fosters radical productivity.

   To read.

     ¶ (1) Tags: [Object-Relational mapping, Ruby on Rails, To Read]

Sunday, March 5, 2006

1. An introduction to Category Theory: When is one thing equal to some other thing? (PDF), by Barry Mazur (via LtU). To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Computer science, Mathematics, Philosophy, To Read]

Monday, February 27, 2006

1. The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages. "My 1987 book is now out of print, but it is now available online in its entirety." (Via reddit).

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

1. JeffCroft.com: Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance (via Simon Willison). To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Django, Templating, To Read]

Saturday, February 25, 2006

1. LtU: Hundreds of Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

1. Dan Webb: Painless JavaScript Using Prototype (via Simon Willison). To read.

   Also see these reference posters for Prototype (via Keith Gaughan).

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Monday, February 20, 2006

1. MSDN: C#: Create Elegant Code With Anonymous Methods, Iterators, And Partial Classes. C# has generators! To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [C#, Generators, To Read]