January 05, 2006

NativeCall - calling operating system methods from Java

NativeCall - calling operating system methods from Java

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 This is absolutely great! >100 short essays by some really smart people on a vast array of social and scientific problems. The best way to kill an entire day on the internet that I've seen since last years edition.

The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software

The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software: "Still. CS is proofs (recursion), algorithms (recursion), languages (lambda calculus), operating systems (pointers), compilers (lambda calculus) -- and so the bottom line is that a JavaSchool that won't teach C and won't teach Scheme is not really teaching computer science, either. As useless as the concept of function currying may be to the real world, it's obviously a prereq for CS grad school. I can't understand why the professors on the curriculum committees at CS schools have allowed their programs to be dumbed down to the point where not only can't they produce working programmers, they can't even produce CS grad students who might get PhDs and compete for their jobs. Oh wait. Never mind. Maybe I do understand."