Blog Archive

Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.

rant 3 min read

Positive Change

There was a federal election in Australia, just last weekend: the 24th of November. This election went a lot better than the last few years worth of elections. John Howard...

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rant 1 min read

One Computer

Thomas Watson from IBM said that he could foresee a need for perhaps five computers worldwide, and we now know that that figure was wrong, because he overestimated by four....

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comp-sci 3 min read

Currying

As a lazy functional language Haskell has to provide automatic currying of all functions. But once you’ve tried to use a functional language that doesn’t automatically curry you realise this...

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uncategorized 1 min read

Bear With Me...

Now that I’m using some proper tools for my blog editing I’m going back through my old posts making sure the formatting and HTML are correct. In particular, I’ve turned...

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comp-sci 1 min read

Local Editing

I was never entirely happy with using the Blogger editing box in a web browser for an entire, long post. It’s in a browser, where the slightest click or accidental...

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comp-sci 2 min read

I Don't Get Jeff Atwood

I read quite a few blogs, on different topics, but there is (obviously) a whole bunch of computing ones in there. I read some of the big name ones, like...

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rant 1 min read

Original Policy

Has a century of compulsory voting and a decade of international neo-conservatism finally killed off the last vestiges of original thought in governmental policy? It certainly feels that way.

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