Interview with Donald Knuth
Monday, March 14th, 2005An NPR interview with Donald Knuth (audio).
Archive for March, 2005
Reading the Fine Print
Sunday, March 13th, 2005Ted Leung's always-excellent blog had this article today about AOL changing the terms of service for AOL Instant Messenger. Quoting Ted quoting AOL: ...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, ...
The Long Tail
Saturday, March 12th, 2005Joe Krauss writes about the long tail of power-law distributions, and what it means for software entrepreneurs. Interesting...
Code reviews
Friday, March 11th, 2005We're two weeks away from the coding cutoff, so I've got students doing code reviews. For most of them, this is the first time in their lives that they've marked someone else's code, and had their own examined line by line. (They've all had plenty of code marked, ...