honest.knave

Lately, I’ve been wondering what the hell Google has been doing with YouTube since they bought it. The site is awful; I always forget how to use the simplest features. Example: Where is the link to my favorites? Oh, right, it’s hidden under the Account popup menu (which I always notice after [...]

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In my last entry, I talked about closed-minded attitudes about new (or just unfamiliar) programming styles. I’ve been thinking a lot about why Python — or any other dynamic language — is more powerful than a more rigid, statically typed language. For the purposes of this article, I consider C++ rigid, even though [...]

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… or, Stop being so myopic, and I’ll stop calling you code monkeys.
First, a quote from the famously eloquent Donald Rumsfeld:
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. [...]

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