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  • Metaphors and Mathematics

    I haven't posted myself in a bit and decided to go ahead and drop a few lines...albeit a little off topic. I've been looking for supplemental maths books for both my children. As you Computer Science types know, texts for elementary Maths (and more advanced maths for that matter) can be painfully...
    Posted to Bytes of Wisdom (Weblog) by jlockwood on 11-09-2007

  • Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise - Epilogue

    Okay, this is funny. Little did I know that while writing “Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise” I was entering the midst of just such a problem. The entry was written over a 2-3 hour span during compile waits on various tasks. The last hour or so required debugging due to some really strange...
    Posted to Bytes of Wisdom (Weblog) by jlockwood on 04-03-2007

  • Term of the Day: Principle Of Least Surprise

    The principle of least surprise (AKA POLS) simply dictates that the interface to any given entity (method, for instance) should exhibit the bevahior that is least suprising to the user/programmer when there are conflicts or ambiguities between members of said interface. Example: Let's say that the following...
    Posted to Bytes of Wisdom (Weblog) by jlockwood on 04-03-2007
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