Saturday, 27th March 2004
It’s only going to get worse
This analysis of the spread of the witty worm is fascinating for a whole bunch of different reasons.
[... 395 words]How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (via) Debugging and social skills in the same document.
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (via) On of those problems you really want to be able to ignore.
HTTP 101. What everyone should know about HTTP.
“It’s All Bad News” (via) The situation in Iraq, from a freelance reporter living there since April 2003.
Omit needless words, codified
I continue to try to improve my writing. “Omit needless words” is all well and good, but identifying needless words can be a difficult task for the untrained eye. Paul Ford’s Passivator bookmarklet highlights adverbs and passive verbs, both of which can indicate weak writing.
Contact Information (Ftrain.com). This made me smile.