The BBC Radio 4 weekly discussion programme In Our Time recently covered the history of Logic from Socrates through to computation with Alan Turing. It is an interesting programme and well worth a listen. Necessarily broad in scope but more accessible than the recent hilarious attempt by the same programme to deal with imaginary numbers during which the presenter, Melvyn Bragg, tied himself in knots: 'yes... but what are they?'
Parallel Data Fetching
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The second pattern in *Juntao Qiu's* series on data fetching is on how to
avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries
multiple so...
Learning from the object-oriented mania
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Back when I started programming professionally, every expert and every
software engineering professor would swear by object-oriented programming.
Resistanc...
I am a Highly Ranked Scholar
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I am delighted to have made this list. Lesley Lamport and John Reynolds
also appear on it, but at positions lower than mine, and Tony Hoare and
Robin Mi...
A new scientific index
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The CF-Index, or Conference Frustration index, is an integer n (n ≥ 1)
defined as follows. You are at a conference where your paper submission was
reject...
What You Want Is What You Get
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How do we resolve the classic tension between WYSIWYG and markup . Alas,
one can't explain that properly in blogger, but if you follow this link,
you'll se...
Protecting your business in the age of ransomware
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Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and
sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, it’s no surprise that 62% of
surveyed ...
The case for strong leadership in agile teams
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The key to scaling a software engineering organization is stable teams. A
while ago I wrote about the need to focus on stable, autonomous teams.
Teams wi...
The redesigned Racket blog
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*posted by Matthew Butterick*
I love Racket. But a few months ago, I really wanted to kill this blog.
Why? Because who reads blogs, right? It’s like get...
10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef
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OK, I confess, I watch Masterchef, the television reality show and cookery
programme. We record them on the Sky box and if I need to mindlessly zone
out,...
New Book Available
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The new book, DSL Engineering is now available. You can get the print
version as well as the PDF via dslbook.org. Have fun with the book and let
me know wh...
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