julius_geezer

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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Interesting piece. Thanks to colinprince for posting it.
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"So, what's a real programmer? I believe it's the one who's obsessed with the programming itself, not with the result. It's the guy who would spam your IM with tons of code and discussions about it 4 times out 5 when you have a conversation
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Depressing.
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Four I had forgotten: _Warrenpoint_ by Denis Donoghue. Memoirs of youth, beautifully written. _The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke_ by Conor Cruise O'Brien. _Autobiographies_ by W. B. Yeats. This was I think the first tim
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Definitely a great read. By the way, if you find Pirsig on the sophists interesting, you might look up Lev Shestov, _Potestas Clavium_.
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
The British computer scientist Martin Ward has a site dedicated to G.K. Chesterton, with a fair bit of his work on-line. I lent a copy of Nabokov's _Verse and Versions_ to a friend, and the cheap binding finally gave out. Look for his poetr
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Some on this list are great, some just good: _The Critique of Pure Reason_--got about halfway through 30 years ago, set it aside, picked it up again. Probably shorter than <i>The Fountainhead</i> but takes a long time to rea
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Education: One thing that strikes me in looking at Loony Tunes from (I suppose) that 1950s is how many allusions to classical and folk music they could slip in. I'm guessing that something has been lost in music education in the schools ove
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
The danger of self-teaching is that it is easy to focus on what interests you to the exclusion of things that you really ought to know but which don't grab you the same way. I wish I could tell you how to avoid this danger, but I can't. Per
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
"In my most humble opinion, the value of CS education is not to prepare young people for a job in IT. Instead, its value is in teaching young people how to think in an abstract and rigorous manner." How can one disagree with such a goal? Ye
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
"Kids going through school today need to be more than mere consumers of this technology, to be functional and literate citizens" That sounds like a song I've heard before. The details vary, but something difficult, rigorous, and in some way
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
One of the French surrealists noted that "Salavador Dali" is an anagram of "Avida Dollars".
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Thoreau on Goethe (_A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers_, Thursday): "He was even too _well-bred_ to be thoroughly bred. He says that he had had no intercourse with the lowest class of his towns-boys. The child should have the advant
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
I don't think the chip on the shoulder exists to the extent that it may once have, partly because those with reservations about US foreign policy have discovered that it is counterproductive to take it out on PFCs. There are undoubtedly a b
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
"just out of law school": following, that is, graduation from Georgetown University, a Rhodes scholarship, and graduation from Yale Law School. There is an old gibe that a Rhodes Scholar is a young man with a great future behind him, but I
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
Pulling your leg. Hoffman, who had learned in the "method acting" schools, apparently stayed up all night to look properly harrowed for a scene. Laurence Olivier, playing opposite, is said to have told him something like "Why don't you try
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
One could go on and on giving examples; as good as any is near the end of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land": Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence ca
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by julius_geezer 17y ago
"While compensation reform is needed, it must come from within--from executives and boards, acting in the company's best interests," he added. I don't like the pay Czar notion. However, I doubt that the executives will reduce their own pay,
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Before WW I and perhaps after, the Russian gauge differed from the western European, not least as an anti-invasion measure. Charles Babbage agitated to no effect for a broader gauge, by the way.