Last summer, I had the idea to create a website that tracked gas prices, relying on volunteers to report prices. It looks like I wasn’t the only one.
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 8:43 PM MST
March 30th, 2004
Gas Prices
March 18th, 2004
The Progammers’ Stone
The Programmers’ Stone has been around since 1997, but I only heard about it today. I can’t decide if I love it or hate it, but I spent the afternoon mesmorized by it.
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 9:11 PM MST
Lessons in what not to do
Roedy Green has written a humourous guide on how to write unmaintainable code.
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 9:08 PM MST
March 9th, 2004
FFIs for Lisp
I already knew about ECL, but I only discovered chicken today, when I started investigating SWIG as a way to generate interfaces to C code from a Common Lisp. Neat stuff.
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 8:03 PM MST
March 8th, 2004
Classical Computer Science Texts
An excellent collection of online computer science articles and texts.
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:31 PM MST
Preferred Treatment for the Obnoxious
University of Southern California researchers are working on a system that will switch a customer from the automated telephone system to a human operator if he seems angry. Why would anybody think this a good idea? Who wants to live in a world where irrate obnoxious jerks get preferred treatment at the expense of those with enough self-control and civility to wait their turn without complaining?
Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:30 PM MST