Lots of science writers are getting very excited about the news that an experiment measured neutrinos going faster than light. But as we all know, they are overreacting.
Look, this really shouldn't
surprise anyone who has ever done any actual science. Karl
Popper had a really simple
and idealistic concept …
Armen Rigo has a blog posting (worthy of an article of its own) proposing using STM (Software Transactional Memory) in PyPy. In a discussion on reddit someone suggested that you could have weaker threading guarantees and just use locks manually. It wouldn't be so hard, they explained, because:
You really …
Posted Tue 23 August 2011 by mcherm in Programming
I find that this comes up fairly frequently. You find some useful library: perhaps it does logging, or enforces design-by-contract, or it provides an API for calling web services. But someone on the team suggests that instead of using the library directly, we should create a wrapper: "that way, if …
Posted Sun 03 July 2011 by mcherm in Programming
I am in no way an expert on the tricky art of pricing, but I do have an interesting thought about the pricing of very cheap things.
By very cheap things, I am particularly thinking about electronic goods. People buy information (views of articles and things like that) or applications …
Posted Mon 27 June 2011 by mcherm in Uncategorized
Here is my election guide for the primary elections in May of 2011.
It is less neat than usual, partly because it has been completed at the last minute. Bold candidates are the ones I am endorsing.
PA Superior Court Judge, DEM candidate
David Wecht
PA Commonwealth Court Judge, DEM …