Why is CSS so hard? It is verbose, repetitive and cumbersome. At the heart of the matter, CSS has not been designed as a language. As such, CSS has no ways to express things elegantly. It is all hard coded from beginning to end. I had been thinking about this for a while, and was [...]
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Compression == AI ?
September 30th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
The idea of an AI prize was quite intriguing and I came to this site hoping to find something interesting. However this is one of those cases where either these guys are crazy or I am missing something. This is the competition: The contest is about compressing the human world knowledge as well as possible. [...]
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Embedded.com – Avoiding the most common software development goofs
September 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
Why do developers make mistakes? 1. Ignorance 2. Stress 3. Boredom 4. Human frailties Categories of error “We can either categorize based on root cause in the code (e.g., null pointer dereference, failure to unlock after acquiring a lock, buffer overrun, etc.) or based on a higher level reason for the mistake (e.g., improper error [...]
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