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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Let’s be inoffensive about this, ok

Friday, July 24, 2009

Most mornings, I skim the online edition of the New York Times while drinking a mug of tea. I’m usually not yet caffeinated enough– and thus not optimistic enough– to handle serious news, unless it hits very close to home, so I wind up doing the link-following equivalent of flipping through the editorials, the [...]

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Programming as (Platonic) Techne: Placeholder

Thursday, July 23, 2009

As Schwern is giving a lightning talk in my name at OSCON today, on looking at programming as a techne or an empeiria in the Platonic (Gorgianic) model, I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody follows my internet-address here.
Yep, it’s pretty empty. Yep, there’s more in the works. Nope, it’s not here now. [...]

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Oh dear.

Friday, July 17, 2009

I haven’t fallen off the face of the planet, but everything I want to write is a little too complex for my work-addled brain. More to come.
But first, bullet points:
• I’m working with struggling rising ninth graders (and current ninth graders) for Americorps; it’s tiring. Not to mention that “struggling rising ninth graders” [...]

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