I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm turning into an "old fogey" of a computer programmer. You know, the elderly fellow who has an office near the server room; the one who always objects to the use of any new technology and goes on at length about "the good old days …
Posted Sat 02 February 2008 by mcherm in Programming
In part 1 I introduced immutable trees, this time I will talk about threading evil. If you haven't yet read part 1, go back and do so now.
We will start by recapping the argument showing that there cannot be a loop. This argument went as follows:
The RandomTreeBuilder and …
Posted Wed 19 December 2007 by mcherm in Programming
I was reading a post in Eric Lippert's Blog and started to post a reply, but when I realized just how much I needed to say, I decided it should be it's own post, nay: series of posts on my blog. Let me take you on an interesting tour of …
Posted Wed 19 December 2007 by mcherm in Programming
Google, MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, facebook, craigslist, digg—what (besides runaway success) do these have in common?
No one at Google decides how to rank the sites, they rely on how other sites throughout the net link to them. The administrators of MySpace and facebook don't produce any of its content …
Posted Sun 16 December 2007 by mcherm in Uncategorized