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If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you
by tjr 10y ago
If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you haven't even opened yet?
- cirgue 10y agoSchrodinger's library
- simonh 10y agoWhen I was a CS student we used to joke that a friend of ours organized his room in the form of a novel data structure, a bit like a heap but unstructured, called a tip[0]. It would be perfect for storing unopened mail. [0]https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rubbish-tip https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rubbish...
- zumatic 10y agoA tip is essentially an LRU cache: https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d12... (I first heard about this concept ages ago, but that's the first article on Google; sorry if paywalled).
- LTom 10y agoAn ante-anti-library, perhaps?