SBCL 1.0
Posted by ungraspiness Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:11:00 GMT
Thank you and congratulations to the team.
Reading
Posted by ungraspiness Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:03:00 GMT
William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. This didn’t feel much at all like a sci-fi(his first book set in present day). More a melancolic post 911 look at the internet culture wrapped up as a thriller. Nonetheless it’s a great read.
Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene. I was not ready for this book. It’s had an incredible effect on my understanding of living things and evolution from an unexpected perspective. In turn it’s also changed the way I view human and animal relations. It’s actually been quite terrifying in some ways to have the curtain lifted on many subjects. No matter what your existing views on religion, atheism, spirituality, biology etc. this book will present some major challenges to anyone who reads it for the first time (or second or third).
Perception of Corruption
Posted by ungraspiness Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:55:00 GMT
From wikipedia, the ‘World Map Index of perception of corruption’:
Strongly typed software disasters
Posted by ungraspiness Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:34:00 GMT
the.codist seems to have these down accurately so far.
‘A train wreck is a project where everyone assumes things are going well, progress is being made, and it appears that everything will turn out well. In reality, the train is barreling down the tracks at good speed until it hits the bridge that is out and then crashes spectacularly into the valley. No one is actually driving the train and all anyone sees is out the side windows, so the illusion of progress is great.’
‘Unlike a train wreck, where most or all involved think things are going well, in a death march the lower level workers (such as developers) know a disaster is coming but are powerless to stop it. Usually the managers beyond some level are confident that progress is being made and all will be well. In this case the train is going backwards with the leaders in the front, who see nothing but open space, and the developers are all in the back looking out at the disaster ahead.’
Apparently at some point the list will include all these types:- The Train Wreck
- The Death March
- The Sisyphus Project
- The Ten-Foot-Pole
- The Kitchen Sink
- The Painless Upgrade