In a comment on a previous post, Alex Peake warns that in searching for what Jaron Lanier calls "biomimetic" programming metaphors, "we must be careful not to fall into the trap of early flight pioneers - that of trying to emulate birds (too closely) in order to build a flying machine …

Quick links for a dictionary of algorithms and data structures and a book on exact string matching algorithms. (via HotLinks) More bedtime reading ... via [Curiosity is bliss]

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p dir=ltr> Definitely a data-structure theme going on here lately...

In my continuing quest to install XP-64 on my Athlon laptop, I just tried Virtual PC 2004. I get the message "Attempting to load an X86-64 operating system, however this CPU is not compatible with X86-64 mode." which is misleading at best. There aren't any obvious settings I can change …

As much as I love writing code, I realized long ago that it's really the act of bending my computer to my will that I really love. Programming's just the only way to really do that. After a few decades, you'd have thought we'd have come up with something better …

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Speaking of MSDN, here's an article on Profile-Guided Optimization, which they claim often delivers a 20% performance boost for the price of a couple instrumented runs.

Scott Mitchell's MSDN series on data structures is quite good. His latest, on graphs, is a must-read for those who lament the end of "design the data-structures first."

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I have a brand-new emachines M6805 laptop, perfectly stock, onto which I am trying to install Windows XP-64. I have spoken with colleagues who have the exact same model, exact same bios revision, for whom the install of the exact same build goes perfectly. For me, it freezes solid within …

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