The Island and Lake Combination.
For those who are curious which is the largest (island in a lake on an)^2 on an island. Because recursion isn’t just for programmers and computers.
Island/Lake recursion
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Hacker News | “it was designed to restrict the kind of trouble programmers can get themselves …
Great one liner on PL design:
Every programming language is designed to restrict trouble programmers can get into. The key is that they all have different ideas of trouble.
via Hacker News
Yeah, Toast
So, for those not familiar, I go by toast` on the programming language IRC channels. So when I saw this video come up on youtube, with Mr. Engineer (my preferred TF2 class), I had a feeling of a certain kind of awesome. Like it was meant for me, or something.
Yeah, Toast!!
[ot] 500 mile email bug
Just a humorous software bug story, the case of the 500 mile email:
"We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "What's the problem?" I asked. "We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained. I choked on my latte. "Come again?"
A must read for CS/IT folks.