The Programmer's Paradox

Lots of people believe that if you just decompose a big problem into enough little ones, it is solved. A lot of the time, though, the decomp...

I like the expression ‘the rubber meets the road’. I guess it is an expression about driving, the rubber is tires, maybe, but it also applie...

Long ago, I noticed a trend. Coming out of the eighties, people had been taking deep abstractions and encapsulating them into very powerful ...

Having been around for a long time, I often realize that when I use terms like ‘determinism’, I have a slightly different, somewhat deeper s...

In anything goes style, you code whatever works. You do not question it; if the results appear to be more or less correct when you run it on...