Archives for May 2007

links for 2007-05-26

Posted by PJ on May 26, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-25

Posted by PJ on May 25, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-24

Posted by PJ on May 24, 2007 | 2 Comments |

links for 2007-05-22

Posted by PJ on May 22, 2007 | Comment |

And You Thought Dog Sweaters Were Bad

If robots ever achieve sentience, it’s this kind of shit that’s going to cause them to rise up and kill us all.

Posted by PJ on May 18, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-18

Posted by PJ on May 18, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-15

Posted by PJ on May 15, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-12

Posted by PJ on May 12, 2007 | Comment |

Abstraction

Jeff Atwood posted the following quote by Nathaniel Borenstein over at his site. I think it sums up the mentality of most programmers quite well.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Posted by PJ on May 9, 2007 | Comment |

links for 2007-05-03

Posted by PJ on May 3, 2007 | Comment |

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