InfoWorld's Tom Yager wrote a column on the benefits of native code, but then went off the deep end with:
more ...Here's a native code prediction that's way under your radar: We'll see more use of assembly language. ...Developers coding for new, controlled deployments can afford to set high requirements that …
When I feel listless, I sometimes try to whet my brain by rubbing it on quantum mechanics, which requires math that's absurdly difficult for a dilettante to understand. For years I've tinkered at implementing a simulator for programming quantum computers and really haven't gotten anywhere. Well, now I can use …
more ...The Catalogue of Variable Frequency and Single-Resistance-Controlled Oscillators Employing A Single Differential Difference Complementary Current Conveyor which I imagine is self-explanatory to electrical engineers. Silver went to Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Multiscaling Excited-State Direct Dynamics in Photochemistry. Bronze prizes went to two things that I could actually understand: A multi-population …
more ..."Java in a Nutshell" weighs in at 1264 pages. Matt Croyden, sez:
[Y]our programming language just might be complicated when you have trouble telling the difference between its Nutshell book and a telephone book.
[via James Robertson]
This is somewhat unfair, as the bulk of "JiaN" is a library …
more ...According to "How UML Is Used," an article in the May 2006 issue of CACM, the UML diagrams that most commonly "provide new info" above-and-beyond use-case narratives are:
Interestingly, "usage rates are not well explained by how much new information is provided." Statecharts, the …
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more ...According to an article in the May 2006 CACM?quoting Peter Drucker, "no more than one in 100 patents earn enough to pay back its development costs and patent fees, and no more than one in 500 recover all its expenses."
more ...With all my AI posts lately, I'm sorry I hadn't realized that the May 2006 issue of the CACM had a theme on the language-action perspective, a critique by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores that dates from 1986 whose essential point the CACM summarizes neatly:
more ...[S]killful action always occurs …
I tried to add one of those "action bars" under my posts -- you know "email it! | digg it! | del.icio.us it!" but couldn't get the dasBlog template to work. The \<%permalink%> macro expands, not to a URI, but to HTML.
Update:
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Naturally Speaking 8 ), the underlying processing is still realtime (and, last time I checked, single threaded). This is foolish! I would …
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