warmup.cpp: [code] Late last December, I woke up and it was freezing in my apartment. I checked the thermostat, and it was already less than 60 degrees! I turned it from hot to cold to hot. And again. I turned it all the way up. The furnace never clicked on. COME ON! I checked, and [...]
I learned Common Lisp last summer. I had been using some combination of Python, C++, C, and Java for about 8 years, and I wanted to break out of my popular language box. I was more or less attracted to the “data as code” idea, but really it had a bunch of selling points that [...]
I believe that everyone hates the feeling of starting from scratch, regardless of age or experience. This will cause people who should know better to make bad decisions, even misleading people who are conscious of the effect. In my mental model of knowledge, I split skills between three major mastery levels: Those we can use [...]
