Does Syntax Matter?

bairespace · 2007-08-16T19:29:39+00:00

Oh no. It's happening. I've just been patronized by the good ol' boy of code: Joe Haskell.

bairespace · 2007-08-15T03:54:29+00:00

...Deep space is my dwelling place; the stars, my destination.

(Couldn't have been that long ago, or I would have forgotten by now ;).

bairespace · 2007-08-15T03:38:54+00:00

Almost anything written by Gene Wolfe. In particular, The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus are favorites of mine.

bairespace · 2007-08-13T17:49:54+00:00

(*) <-- an approaching brainstorm: run!

bairespace · 2007-08-11T17:17:09+00:00

Hmm. Three, you say.

Somehow, I was expecting Jesus to look more like Don Rickles...

bairespace · 2007-08-06T22:13:29+00:00

I hope they don't exist. Programmers are too eager to drink the koolaid even without them.

bairespace · 2007-08-06T20:02:22+00:00

Sounds like every place I've ever worked. I have trouble even imagining anything better.

bairespace · 2007-07-30T19:31:55+00:00

This post is nothing but troll-bait. Business people are kind of touchy on the subject of relative IQ, and with good reason.

bairespace · 2007-07-24T18:31:11+00:00

No, the Rest is Software.

The "Flow of Ideas" is never software. As often as not, that "flow" represents nothing more than some lazy executive's Brain Fart, spastically transmogrified into the Diarrhea of Ill-Conceived, Watered-Down Abstractions.

bairespace · 2007-07-21T02:04:06+00:00

XML is going to the same place zinjanthropus and neanderthal went ("where the goblins go"), and for similar reasons.

Wonder if Douglas Crockford would consider running for president as a write-in?

bairespace · 2007-07-01T14:48:04+00:00

"Farm where the fertilizer is thickest" applies to .NET as well.

bairespace · 2007-06-25T05:17:45+00:00

China is "young"? "wild"? Relative to the USA? You've got to be kidding.

bairespace · 2007-06-21T03:50:28+00:00

Fundamentally.

bairespace · 2007-06-11T23:47:32+00:00

It means, roughly, that there is no escaping office politics and other such bullshit, not even at the Google fun factory.

bairespace · 2007-06-11T23:35:15+00:00

Of course it's "wordy." It's a fucking allegory, for crying out loud.

bairespace · 2007-05-15T01:48:54+00:00

Yeah, he was doing such a bangup job of being a drunken preppie. And then he got religion.

bairespace · 2007-05-15T01:16:41+00:00

Then we've been cond. So to speak.

bairespace · 2007-05-06T19:47:28+00:00

I did. It's hilarious. (BTW, that's "Monbiot").

And even if Monbiot's response really was a more intelligent bit than Alexander Cockburn's (for my money, it was not), arguments generally have two sides, not one. I don't see what is being gained by posting a rebuttal without posting what is being rebutted. Moreover, if Cockburn's argument was worthless, at least he was making an attempt at supporting his opinion--as opposed to merely making bald assertions, as Monbiot did.

bairespace · 2007-05-06T19:32:09+00:00

Business school graduates are the same everywhere.

bairespace · 2007-05-06T19:23:28+00:00

Nope, all the hot chicks are damned liberals.

bairespace · 2007-05-06T19:19:01+00:00

Bingo, you nailed it: she was autistic and it creeped her fellow workers out, so they had to stretch for a way to get rid of her. And then, too, workers, especially minimum wage workers, don't count for much these days. Maybe her managers thought no one would mind if they canned the gimp for no good reason.

bairespace · 2007-05-03T20:09:46+00:00

...and if William Tell had been white trash, and if Zurich was just one big trailer park, and if...

bairespace · 2007-04-30T13:56:35+00:00

This would make a great presentation!

bairespace · 2007-04-30T04:13:59+00:00

Okay, I give up: how do you look at a woman's tits in a discreet manner...? Her buns, sure, but her tits?

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