Oracles In Math When I was a freshman in college, I took a class called “Great Theoretical Ideas In Computer Science”, taught by Professor Steven Rudich. It was in this class that I began to understand how fundamentally interwoven math and computer science are and to think of programming as a logical extension of math….
In a recent post, I talked about how demoralizing it can be to sit around with nothing to do while waiting for someone else to finish a task that you need, fix something that you need, assign you something, etc. I think this is fairly universally known as “being blocked”. It seems nice to have…
Today I’m going to delve into a topic I don’t know a ton about in the hopes that someone who knows less than me will stumble onto it and find it helpful. As I’ve alluded to here and there, I’ve spent the last couple of months doing ASP Webforms development, which is something I’d never…
I’m writing this post to introduce another series of posts I intend to embark upon, to coexist alongside my “abstractions,” “design patterns,” and “home automation” posts. I’m going to post these under the category “Practical Math” and think of the series as being called “Practical Math for Programmers,” the title of this post notwithstanding. (Speaking…
Quick and Dirty? “We’re really busy right now–just copy that customer form and do a few find and replaces. I know it’s not a great approach, but we don’t have time to build the new form from scratch.” Ever heard that one? Ever said it? Once, twice, dozens, or hundreds of times? This has the…
