MikeTaylor

POSTS

• Every Dependency Is a Vulnerability

  by MikeTaylor on 6/9/2024, 12:31 PM with 0 comments

• Semantic Versioning is a terrible mistake

  by MikeTaylor on 12/27/2023, 11:13 PM with 4 comments

• by MikeTaylor on 12/2/2022, 6:26 PM with comments

• Three completely different ways to be an excellent programmer

  by MikeTaylor on 9/3/2022, 7:36 AM with 0 comments

• Why there no Git WSAPI?

  by MikeTaylor on 7/29/2022, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• by MikeTaylor on 2/9/2022, 7:34 PM with comments

• by MikeTaylor on 12/21/2021, 12:48 PM with comments

• Things you need to know to stop a coup

  by MikeTaylor on 9/24/2020, 2:38 PM with 1 comments

• Major releases are disasters, and should be avoided whenever possible

  by MikeTaylor on 6/14/2019, 9:46 AM with 0 comments

• PutFixedDueDateScheduleStorageFixedDueDateSchedulesByFixedDueDateScheduleIdRespo

  by MikeTaylor on 10/20/2017, 3:44 PM with 1 comments

• What We Get Wrong About Technology

  by MikeTaylor on 8/29/2017, 9:06 PM with 122 comments

• “What should I prioritise that ahead of?”

  by MikeTaylor on 6/2/2017, 5:21 AM with 0 comments

• A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright

  by MikeTaylor on 11/21/2016, 9:39 PM with 0 comments

• A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright

  by MikeTaylor on 5/31/2016, 8:40 PM with 0 comments

• Various parochial national standards were referenced (1997)

  by MikeTaylor on 7/15/2015, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• E-Book piracy: a moral dilemma

  by MikeTaylor on 6/7/2015, 11:29 AM with 1 comments

• C++: the good parts

  by MikeTaylor on 3/31/2014, 8:08 AM with 0 comments

• If Harry Potter was an academic work

  by MikeTaylor on 2/3/2014, 10:15 AM with 0 comments

• Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

  by MikeTaylor on 12/6/2013, 11:22 PM with comments

• … Or maybe they’re doing web-site registration completely right

  by MikeTaylor on 11/21/2013, 8:40 PM with 0 comments

• How PeerJ is changing everything in academic publishing

  by MikeTaylor on 2/12/2013, 10:55 PM with 0 comments

• Petition the RSC to reinstate and support Khanna's copyright reform paper

  by MikeTaylor on 11/20/2012, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• New academic journal eLife allows access to article XML via git

  by MikeTaylor on 10/16/2012, 11:59 AM with 0 comments

• White House petition: release government-developed software as open source

  by MikeTaylor on 7/19/2012, 7:44 AM with 1 comments

• Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research

  by MikeTaylor on 5/21/2012, 10:28 AM with 55 comments

• Open, moral and pragmatic

  by MikeTaylor on 3/8/2012, 11:45 AM with 7 comments

• The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator

  by MikeTaylor on 2/10/2012, 11:48 AM with 0 comments

• My plan for 2012: do things that children do

  by MikeTaylor on 1/21/2012, 12:13 AM with 0 comments

• How to get into space cheaply: the PERB (Progressively Evacuated Rigid Balloon)

  by MikeTaylor on 1/17/2012, 10:23 AM with 3 comments

• Academic publishers have become the enemies of science

  by MikeTaylor on 1/16/2012, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• The obscene profits of commercial scholarly publishers

  by MikeTaylor on 1/13/2012, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• Do your bit to oppose the evil Research Works Act

  by MikeTaylor on 1/9/2012, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• The value of ignoring things: why I really, really hate dress-codes

  by MikeTaylor on 11/21/2011, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access

  by MikeTaylor on 10/24/2011, 8:10 AM with 26 comments

• “You can do anything if you believe in yourself” -- is there something in it?

  by MikeTaylor on 10/8/2011, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• Authors versus Publishers

  by MikeTaylor on 9/30/2011, 10:01 AM with 1 comments

• Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.

  by MikeTaylor on 9/29/2011, 7:53 AM with 89 comments

• C. S. Lewis on intelligence in Christianity

  by MikeTaylor on 8/5/2011, 10:56 AM with 0 comments

• How tired is too tired? It may come sooner than you realise

  by MikeTaylor on 7/19/2011, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• How to get things done: don’t open your post

  by MikeTaylor on 5/20/2011, 10:21 PM with 0 comments

• British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today

  by MikeTaylor on 5/5/2011, 10:52 AM with 101 comments

• Semantic mapping is hard

  by MikeTaylor on 4/19/2011, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant

  by MikeTaylor on 4/18/2011, 8:50 PM with 26 comments

• What should EVERYONE know about paleontology? -- by tyrannosaur expert Tom Holtz

  by MikeTaylor on 2/7/2011, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Brilliant essay on how to find interesting problems to work on

  by MikeTaylor on 2/3/2011, 11:17 PM with 0 comments

• What is there to drink that tastes as good as beer and wine?

  by MikeTaylor on 1/22/2011, 11:13 PM with 0 comments

• How to weigh extinct animals using only pen, paper and arithmetic

  by MikeTaylor on 1/20/2011, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• "I haven’t gone too far yet so I am not sure if I have gone far enough"

  by MikeTaylor on 1/20/2011, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon.com store credit useless in Britain: can't transfer, or buy MP3s/Kindle

  by MikeTaylor on 11/30/2010, 11:42 AM with 0 comments

• Let's do EVERYTHING

  by MikeTaylor on 10/4/2010, 8:24 AM with 0 comments

• Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"

  by MikeTaylor on 9/6/2010, 7:00 PM with 84 comments

• Perl’s *DBM_File packages: what the heck are packagers thinking?

  by MikeTaylor on 6/18/2010, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• How correct is correct enough?

  by MikeTaylor on 6/13/2010, 11:14 PM with 0 comments

• We can’t afford to write safe software

  by MikeTaylor on 6/5/2010, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• How slow are functional implementations of quicksort?

  by MikeTaylor on 5/25/2010, 3:53 PM with 1 comments

• What does it take to test a sorting routine?

  by MikeTaylor on 5/20/2010, 9:16 PM with 0 comments

• Another challenge: can you write a correct selection sort?

  by MikeTaylor on 5/19/2010, 7:46 PM with 0 comments

• The single dumbest message ever emitted by a computer … it’s back

  by MikeTaylor on 5/17/2010, 4:40 PM with 2 comments

• You could have invented git (and maybe you already have)

  by MikeTaylor on 5/13/2010, 6:18 PM with 1 comments

• Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons

  by MikeTaylor on 5/12/2010, 10:27 PM with 166 comments

• Git is a Harrier Jump Jet. And not in a good way

  by MikeTaylor on 5/10/2010, 8:46 PM with 33 comments

• Getting to grips with The Silmarillion: what it isn't and what it is

  by MikeTaylor on 5/6/2010, 12:08 AM with 4 comments

• Writing correct code, part 3: preconditions and postconditions

  by MikeTaylor on 4/30/2010, 12:57 AM with 1 comments

• Writing correct code, part 2: bound functions

  by MikeTaylor on 4/27/2010, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Writing correct code, part 1: whatever happened to invariants?

  by MikeTaylor on 4/25/2010, 9:04 PM with 10 comments

• Testing is not a substitute for thinking

  by MikeTaylor on 4/23/2010, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?

  by MikeTaylor on 4/19/2010, 6:26 PM with 99 comments

• Is Lisp just too hard?

  by MikeTaylor on 4/14/2010, 4:50 PM with 17 comments

• Frameworks are bundles of abstractions, and abstractions leak. Rails included.

  by MikeTaylor on 4/12/2010, 10:14 PM with 0 comments

• Sometimes a big switch statement may be better than polymorphism

  by MikeTaylor on 4/9/2010, 8:19 PM with 1 comments

• 32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

  by MikeTaylor on 4/6/2010, 6:27 PM with 66 comments

• The collapse of complex computer programs

  by MikeTaylor on 4/1/2010, 10:55 PM with 0 comments

• Early experiments with JRuby -- it's so much more expressive than vanilla Ruby

  by MikeTaylor on 4/1/2010, 1:15 AM with 0 comments

• Simplicity in programming, redux: depth-first and breadth-first minds

  by MikeTaylor on 3/28/2010, 5:50 PM with 2 comments

• Refactoring wars and how to avoid them: what is "simplicity" in programming?

  by MikeTaylor on 3/28/2010, 1:50 AM with 32 comments

• 2500 words on the subject of brevity in programming

  by MikeTaylor on 3/19/2010, 12:58 PM with 8 comments

• Programming the Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide

  by MikeTaylor on 3/14/2010, 9:23 AM with 2 comments

• Imperative is "how to calculate a factorial"; functional just says what one is.

  by MikeTaylor on 3/11/2010, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

• Where Dijkstra went wrong: the value of BASIC as a first programming language

  by MikeTaylor on 3/9/2010, 11:13 PM with 1 comments

• by MikeTaylor on 3/9/2010, 9:26 PM with comments

• Experiences with Commodore computers: the 300 bytes-per-second disk-drive

  by MikeTaylor on 3/8/2010, 2:15 AM with 0 comments

• The Elements of Programming Style: "say what you mean, simply and directly"

  by MikeTaylor on 3/6/2010, 10:35 PM with 11 comments

• Whatever happened to programming, redux: it may not be as bad as all that

  by MikeTaylor on 3/4/2010, 2:39 PM with 0 comments