That déjà vu feeling when you’re doing your SML homework with your hands misplaced and Perl comes out
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Oh wow, Functional Programming in Scala is over just like that!
On the last assignment of Progfun, I got sidetracked by some assertions in the discussion group about implementation details that weren’t generally true, and hovered very close to the solution for far too long — long enough to start worrying about how I would finish by the deadline and make …
College dropout
Quite a while back I had signed up for some Coursera offerings which were off in the distant future. Around ten days ago I started getting boatloads of e-mails as several of the classes started. I’ve had plenty to keep me busy, including preparation for a couple of upcoming …
Practice vs. deliberate practice, re-spinned?
Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity
After playing for familiarity comes the real work: listening critically and fixing the bugs, one at a time. This is obvious, but too often it isn’t the way we approach a mediocre level of performance. It takes time to resolve, but …