Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Ubuntu 7.10 (codename "Gutsy Gibbon"), released last month, is for me the first really usable Linux, which is saying a lot considering I've made a serious attempt to switch to Linux about once a year for the last six years. The last 3 of those attempts have been with Ubuntu, ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
In discussions of programming education, the argument is often made that learning to program shouldn't be made easier. This is the Let's Filter Out the Idiots argument, common also to the fields of law and medicine (or so I'm told). The idea, basically, is that the discipline must retain a ...
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