Erik Novales

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Entries from May 2010

A Gross Overgeneralization

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

From David Chisnall: If you find yourself optimizing your code, then it means that the author of your compiler has failed. This is just very, very untrue. Even if you strike algorithmic optimization from the picture, code optimization is still a very important and useful skill to have no matter what sort of programming you’re [...]

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Tags: Development

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (Kindle version) is a book that my wife gave me awhile back, and to which I finally got around to reading. It’s a bit of a strange book – it purports to challenge existing dogma about the origins of modern English, but does so in a manner that seems too casual [...]

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Tags: Books