Things To Do Before "1.0":
- Add animated dragon logo on right top.
- Fix permalinks.
- Get the front page working at mcherm.com. (It would be nice if
"http://mcherm.com/blog" also worked since I've been giving that out
while in beta.)
- Add the actual blog title.
- Valid XHTML …
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Posted Mon 17 December 2007
by mcherm
in articles
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 …
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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 …
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Posted Sun 09 December 2007
by mcherm
in Programming
About four weeks ago, the project that I was working on was abruptly
canceled. It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the way the
project was going -- there were lots of things wrong with the way the
project was going, but the cancellation was due to a change in …
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Posted Mon 03 December 2007
by mcherm
in Programming
Suppose that you have a collection of numbers or perhaps of
WidgetManagerHandles -- could be most anything that can be sorted. We'll
suppose that these are stored in an array and that you can take as much
time as you need beforehand to organize the array, after which we will
try …
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Posted Thu 22 November 2007
by mcherm
in Programming