Dysfunctional Programming » humor http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming (λ (a b) a) vs (λ (a b) b) Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:05:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Island/Lake recursion http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/islandlake-recursion/ http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/islandlake-recursion/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:23:15 +0000 aaron http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/?p=251 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.

]]> http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/islandlake-recursion/feed/ 0 Hacker News | “it was designed to restrict the kind of trouble programmers can get themselves … http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/hacker-news-it-was-designed-to-restrict-the-kind-of-trouble-programmers-can-get-themselves/ http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/hacker-news-it-was-designed-to-restrict-the-kind-of-trouble-programmers-can-get-themselves/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:25:10 +0000 aaron http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/?p=198 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

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Yeah, Toast!!

]]> http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/yeah-toast/feed/ 0 [ot] 500 mile email bug http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/ot-500-mile-email-bug/ http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/ot-500-mile-email-bug/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:23:03 +0000 aaron http://ra3s.com/wordpress/dysfunctional-programming/?p=121 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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