Edward G Nilges's blog

However, Truth is independent of *technos* in the sense that technical ends pass away but the abstract class Truth does not. Which isn't much help because Job One is avoiding our own passing-away, and that of the baby, poor little perisher...

How to be a great programmer, among other things.

I discovered something very interesting: More than one "parse tree" can validly exist for a sentence, and the relationship between a language (considered as a set of valid sentences) and a grammar is one-many: there can be more than one grammar for a language. I'd hazard that most English teachers don't believe this. Indeed, grammar prescriptive and grammar descriptive is taught as the search by the adept for a single Palace of Grammar.

Programmers fight for the right not to have to use languages with silly and useless rules. Likewise people work every day to communicate and they make the rules up as they go along...

I agree with Donna that we should be grateful we're not dung beetles. However, Buddhism tells us that if we don't act right, we will be reborn as, perhaps, a dung beetle...

In "Design Reviews - Best Practices", Mario van Damme writes that in a design review "...you should clearly communicate that complexity is only appreciated in case that there is no simple solution".

It makes no sense from a normalized viewpoint to think of a highly intelligent programmer, who with an apparent arrogance demands full creative control of the UI, as necessarily disruptive, or full of himself.

Let's hear it for the Foo Fighters!

Downsizing R & D, and telling brilliant people that they must always be on notice to "prove" that they Contribute to the sacred Bottom Line, NEVER WORKS. Why?

Some thoughts on Dan's .NET IsDate() and IsNumeric() post.

The programmers are easily persuaded not to worry, because as members of the lower middle class, they have been fooled by the bogus campaign that falsely claims that there are "too many" immigrants. MIS management keeps as quiet as possible about the quality of the numbers.

I am sorry if I ever offend. I use "sexist" language because men are disempowered: because their natural aggression threatens unfair social and on the job arrangements, it is discouraged and this makes them into failed women on the job, who bring nothing, as men, more to the table than women.

A. Gonzales "reviews" Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler. Nilges replies.