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MikeTaylor
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Every Dependency Is a Vulnerability
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on 6/9/2024, 12:31 PM with
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Semantic Versioning is a terrible mistake
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on 12/27/2023, 11:13 PM with
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on 12/2/2022, 6:26 PM with
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Three completely different ways to be an excellent programmer
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on 9/3/2022, 7:36 AM with
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Why there no Git WSAPI?
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on 7/29/2022, 4:07 PM with
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on 2/9/2022, 7:34 PM with
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on 12/21/2021, 12:48 PM with
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Things you need to know to stop a coup
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on 9/24/2020, 2:38 PM with
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Major releases are disasters, and should be avoided whenever possible
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on 6/14/2019, 9:46 AM with
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PutFixedDueDateScheduleStorageFixedDueDateSchedulesByFixedDueDateScheduleIdRespo
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on 10/20/2017, 3:44 PM with
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What We Get Wrong About Technology
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on 8/29/2017, 9:06 PM with
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“What should I prioritise that ahead of?”
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on 6/2/2017, 5:21 AM with
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A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright
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on 11/21/2016, 9:39 PM with
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A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright
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on 5/31/2016, 8:40 PM with
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Various parochial national standards were referenced (1997)
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on 7/15/2015, 3:15 PM with
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E-Book piracy: a moral dilemma
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on 6/7/2015, 11:29 AM with
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C++: the good parts
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on 3/31/2014, 8:08 AM with
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If Harry Potter was an academic work
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on 2/3/2014, 10:15 AM with
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Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu
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on 12/6/2013, 11:22 PM with
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… Or maybe they’re doing web-site registration completely right
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on 11/21/2013, 8:40 PM with
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How PeerJ is changing everything in academic publishing
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on 2/12/2013, 10:55 PM with
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Petition the RSC to reinstate and support Khanna's copyright reform paper
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on 11/20/2012, 4:00 PM with
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New academic journal eLife allows access to article XML via git
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on 10/16/2012, 11:59 AM with
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White House petition: release government-developed software as open source
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on 7/19/2012, 7:44 AM with
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Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research
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on 5/21/2012, 10:28 AM with
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Open, moral and pragmatic
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on 3/8/2012, 11:45 AM with
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The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator
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on 2/10/2012, 11:48 AM with
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My plan for 2012: do things that children do
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on 1/21/2012, 12:13 AM with
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How to get into space cheaply: the PERB (Progressively Evacuated Rigid Balloon)
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on 1/17/2012, 10:23 AM with
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Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
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on 1/16/2012, 2:57 PM with
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The obscene profits of commercial scholarly publishers
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on 1/13/2012, 3:58 PM with
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Do your bit to oppose the evil Research Works Act
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on 1/9/2012, 3:12 PM with
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The value of ignoring things: why I really, really hate dress-codes
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on 11/21/2011, 10:05 PM with
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Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access
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on 10/24/2011, 8:10 AM with
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“You can do anything if you believe in yourself” -- is there something in it?
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on 10/8/2011, 9:43 PM with
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Authors versus Publishers
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on 9/30/2011, 10:01 AM with
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Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
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on 9/29/2011, 7:53 AM with
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C. S. Lewis on intelligence in Christianity
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on 8/5/2011, 10:56 AM with
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How tired is too tired? It may come sooner than you realise
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on 7/19/2011, 6:54 PM with
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How to get things done: don’t open your post
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on 5/20/2011, 10:21 PM with
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British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today
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on 5/5/2011, 10:52 AM with
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Semantic mapping is hard
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on 4/19/2011, 10:02 PM with
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Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant
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on 4/18/2011, 8:50 PM with
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What should EVERYONE know about paleontology? -- by tyrannosaur expert Tom Holtz
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on 2/7/2011, 5:57 PM with
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Brilliant essay on how to find interesting problems to work on
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on 2/3/2011, 11:17 PM with
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What is there to drink that tastes as good as beer and wine?
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MikeTaylor
on 1/22/2011, 11:13 PM with
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How to weigh extinct animals using only pen, paper and arithmetic
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MikeTaylor
on 1/20/2011, 9:41 PM with
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"I haven’t gone too far yet so I am not sure if I have gone far enough"
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on 1/20/2011, 12:47 AM with
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Amazon.com store credit useless in Britain: can't transfer, or buy MP3s/Kindle
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on 11/30/2010, 11:42 AM with
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Let's do EVERYTHING
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MikeTaylor
on 10/4/2010, 8:24 AM with
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
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on 9/6/2010, 7:00 PM with
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Perl’s *DBM_File packages: what the heck are packagers thinking?
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MikeTaylor
on 6/18/2010, 1:45 PM with
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How correct is correct enough?
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on 6/13/2010, 11:14 PM with
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We can’t afford to write safe software
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on 6/5/2010, 6:58 PM with
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How slow are functional implementations of quicksort?
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on 5/25/2010, 3:53 PM with
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What does it take to test a sorting routine?
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on 5/20/2010, 9:16 PM with
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Another challenge: can you write a correct selection sort?
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on 5/19/2010, 7:46 PM with
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The single dumbest message ever emitted by a computer … it’s back
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MikeTaylor
on 5/17/2010, 4:40 PM with
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You could have invented git (and maybe you already have)
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MikeTaylor
on 5/13/2010, 6:18 PM with
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Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons
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MikeTaylor
on 5/12/2010, 10:27 PM with
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Git is a Harrier Jump Jet. And not in a good way
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MikeTaylor
on 5/10/2010, 8:46 PM with
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Getting to grips with The Silmarillion: what it isn't and what it is
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MikeTaylor
on 5/6/2010, 12:08 AM with
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Writing correct code, part 3: preconditions and postconditions
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MikeTaylor
on 4/30/2010, 12:57 AM with
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Writing correct code, part 2: bound functions
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on 4/27/2010, 6:49 PM with
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Writing correct code, part 1: whatever happened to invariants?
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MikeTaylor
on 4/25/2010, 9:04 PM with
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Testing is not a substitute for thinking
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on 4/23/2010, 10:04 PM with
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Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?
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on 4/19/2010, 6:26 PM with
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Is Lisp just too hard?
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MikeTaylor
on 4/14/2010, 4:50 PM with
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Frameworks are bundles of abstractions, and abstractions leak. Rails included.
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on 4/12/2010, 10:14 PM with
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Sometimes a big switch statement may be better than polymorphism
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on 4/9/2010, 8:19 PM with
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32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone
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on 4/6/2010, 6:27 PM with
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The collapse of complex computer programs
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on 4/1/2010, 10:55 PM with
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Early experiments with JRuby -- it's so much more expressive than vanilla Ruby
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on 4/1/2010, 1:15 AM with
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Simplicity in programming, redux: depth-first and breadth-first minds
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MikeTaylor
on 3/28/2010, 5:50 PM with
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Refactoring wars and how to avoid them: what is "simplicity" in programming?
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MikeTaylor
on 3/28/2010, 1:50 AM with
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2500 words on the subject of brevity in programming
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MikeTaylor
on 3/19/2010, 12:58 PM with
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Programming the Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide
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MikeTaylor
on 3/14/2010, 9:23 AM with
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Imperative is "how to calculate a factorial"; functional just says what one is.
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on 3/11/2010, 5:49 PM with
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Where Dijkstra went wrong: the value of BASIC as a first programming language
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on 3/9/2010, 11:13 PM with
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on 3/9/2010, 9:26 PM with
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Experiences with Commodore computers: the 300 bytes-per-second disk-drive
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on 3/8/2010, 2:15 AM with
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The Elements of Programming Style: "say what you mean, simply and directly"
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MikeTaylor
on 3/6/2010, 10:35 PM with
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Whatever happened to programming, redux: it may not be as bad as all that
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on 3/4/2010, 2:39 PM with
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