Don’t make me log in or create an account just to place my order. Don’t make me do a password reset just because I haven’t logged in and I’ve forgotten my password. If you absolutely insist on doing a password reset, do this instead: Take my email and password + repeat password, regardless of whether [...]
Archives for October 2010
Everything in math comes down to calculus
Everything else is a generalization. Take, for example, the formula for the area of a rectangle: In reality, this is the result of the equation: Where the length of the rectangle lies along the y-axis, and the width along the x-axis See? Isn’t that simple, and a much more accurate representation of the area of [...]
What should I do with this existing desktop?
I have a mostly custom built desktop, and want to replace it with adequately current hardware, but no real plans for gaming. The IDE Hard Drives are going out. On the existing desktop: Windows 2000 is installed, but I rarely boot to it. Ubuntu 9.04 is installed. I have a SATA 250 GB drive that [...]
Haskell resources
In order to reclaim some of our programming mojo that has waned from years of maintenance programming and meetings, a couple of us programmers decided to go and try to learn a completely new language–Haskell. I think this expedition was spurred by a blog post titled Great resources to learn Haskell. I’m as much a [...]
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