Question: Ryan Maas wanted to know “why it is that when I am driving to or from work on the Eastside … I see most buses empty with signage on dictating that they are headed back to base. Can’t the buses pick up people headed across the water?” Answer: They [...]
What’s too much modeling? Too much formal modeling is when you give it more time than it is worth, or when many other interesting things don’t get done because you are obsessed with the formalisms and the cool tools. Too much attention to one kind of model will starve attention [...]
I was reading about Chris Barker’s research and I found this paper on Continuations in Natural Language interesting. Chris has written another paper called Continuations and the Nature of Quantification that I have yet to read but sounds interesting also.
Continuations have interesting uses, for instance the ambiguous operator can be implemented with them. [...]
I was reading Why Rails Fixtures are No Fun last week and was going to write a great post about xUnit Patterns that would address the problems but today I saw Object Mother In Rails so I don’t need to write it up. Phew!
Jeff Barr provided this link via his linkblog:
Information Week: Inside Second Life’s Data Centers “The servers support 34 Tbytes of user-created content, and the traffic load for accessing that content is very different than a conventional Web site.“