TheBoff

This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary blocks of code.

You really the NHS costs less per-capita in tax than US healthcare?

I think it's nice that it leaves you to draw your own conclusion, and doesn't preach or talk down to you, one way or the other.

Well, getting Linux working on a laptop was more a case of exciting driver wrangling, rather than performance limiting.

I'm really interested in computer architecture. I somehow doubt that there's a company that's going to sit me down and do that straight out of undergrad...

Ugh, what a small minded comment.

I'm one of them. As I just read, Feedly in the only titles or whole document mode is almost no different from Google Reader.

Yeah, whilst he mentions work and school, there's nowhere to just be social with people in that schedule. What do you do if you want to go to the cinema or the theatre, or just the pub?

I was fairly sure that NT was originally going to be a microkernel, but it ended up being really slow, so they had to push everything into a more monolithic architecture.

I don't know if it's just me, but the use of passive voice really irritated me. Like the author was entirely correct, and there could be no debate.

It makes me wonder how strong the cylinders are. They look quite small, so it seems like with a tool shaped like a "T" with a wide top you'd be able to force a lock open.

I've just had my first course in AI, and being interested in games, I was curious to see how the reasonably specific, theoretical techniques we were taught could fit into game design. This was a reasonably interesting example, but I think I'd be more interested in some specific applications, although I appreciate these might be jealously guarded secrets...

"More retina" is meaningless: the whole pointer is that it's indistinguishable from normal use distance.

You can say "higher resolution", or even "retina when held closer to the face", but "more retina" really is nonsense!

It seems to me that most of these aren't controversial at all.

I disagree with one of the points supporting "Unit testing won’t help you write good code.", though, where he implies that writing the code reveals the edge cases. Surely the edge cases are something you should have carefully considered before starting to code? I've found that crystallising the edge cases as a test before writing the function can be really helpful.