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Monthly Archives: May 2007
On books written by Haruki Murakami
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I find it really hard to describe any book written by Haruki Murakami to others. His books have some sort of ineffable quality that can’t be explained. I was reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle this last week, and I could not help but notice the similarities between this book and his other books I’ve read. [...]
Everything Good is Bad For You
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Everything Good is Bad For You: “But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world’s most popular timewaster, it doesn’t seem like anyone is going to do.”
Recursion
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Recursion is another of those concepts that seems to pup up everywhere you look, once you understand it. I don’t just mean it in a programmatic sense, but it’s easier to get it if you’ve coded for a while. Thinking of thinks in terms of themselves is a big plus, conceptually. It simplifies things when [...]
Negatives
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
We’re defined by our limits: what we can not do and what we will not do. There are so many things I can’t do, so most of the times I end up thinking about the things I can do. While it is a much more comforting endeavor, it does not tend to lead one onward [...]
Lisp Movies
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Interesting: Using a HTTP Client & Server in Lisp, and ‘Re-writing’ Reddit in Lisp.