"the monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons. buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems..."
"The average piece of software code can make me cry. The programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability. Most people don't know how bad it is because they don't read code..."
"the monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons. buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems..."
"The average piece of software code can make me cry. The programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability. Most people don't know how bad it is because they don't read code..."
"The word on the street is that corn futures prices have risen because of the soaring demand for corn to produce corn ethanol. Iowa’s corn ethanol production is projected to exceed 3.6 billion gallons a year."
"In 1937 southern incomes were only half the American average; today they are 91% of it. If you allow for the lower cost of living in the South, the gap all but vanishes."
" It is 1980 and then-Disney studio head Ron Miller is given galley-proofs for the soon to be released Gary Wolf novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?... Over the objections of Disney CEO Card Walker, paid $25,000 for the film rights to the book."
"Because optimization often relies on making use of special cases and performing complex trade offs an optimized program can often be more difficult for programmers to comprehend, which can contain in more faults than the unoptimized version."
"Don't optimize as you write. Why not? Because, in all probability, you're wasting your time. The VAST majority of the code programmers optimize is executed so rarely that its total speedup to the program can be measured only in nanoseconds."
"My book was written to emphasize general economic principles, and the penalties of ignoring them-not the harm done by any specific piece of legislation. While my illustrations were based mainly on American experience..."
"What struck Jim Wier first, as he entered the Wal-Mart vice president's office, was the seating area for visitors. 'It was just some lawn chairs that some other peddler had left behind as samples.'"
"In the early 1930s [Vannevar Bush] first wrote of a device he called the "Memex," which he envisioned as looking like a desk with two touch screen graphical displays, a keyboard, and a scanner attached to it."
"The classic example of recursive programming involves computing factorials. The factorial of a number is computed as that number times all of the numbers below it up to and including 1. For example, factorial(5) is the same as 5*4*3*2*1..."
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