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
Edsger W. Dijkstra possessed an extraordinary ability to communicate elegantly and precisely. I admire, but could never emulate his ability to put an entire essay into a single statement. Yesterday I came across the following gem:
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the …
Posted Sun 09 December 2007 by mcherm in Programming