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Bootstrapping

Crystal is a cool new language that I like. One thing that’s neat about it is that even the compiler (as opposed to the runtime libraries) is written in Crystal. That is, the compiler is written in the same high level language that the compiler is intended to compile! As an aside, this is really powerful and important […]

Posted bymethodOctober 23, 2015October 28, 2015Posted inCode, Philosophy1 Comment on Bootstrapping

Reading Habits

I read a lot. Mostly I read blog posts, picked out from my Google Reader stream. I read these all in a blur, constantly hitting the ‘j’ key (a shortcut for next), generally restricting my gaze to the headline, only occasionally stopping to read the article text itself. Often the entry is a description of […]

Posted bymethodJune 28, 2012June 28, 2012Posted inCulture, Ideas, Life, Philosophy2 Comments on Reading Habits

A Bit of Wisdom

People think that there are authorities out there with direct knowledge when in fact there is no direct knowledge, there is only focal knowledge, knowledge that is located around a set of practices, discourses, institutional locations, etc. So for example a doctor doesn’t know bodies; a doctor knows a bunch of things about the body […]

Posted bymethodJanuary 8, 2010January 8, 2010Posted inIdeas, PhilosophyLeave a comment on A Bit of Wisdom

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