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By Perry, 2 years and 10 months ago

Educating programmers

On Thursday, Dec. 29th, Joel Spolsky, in a post called «The Perils of JavaSchools,» flashed his «old school» credentials by complaining that kids these days have it too easy, because they are allowed to use Java in learning programming, and therefore he contends that they don't know nearly as much as they should, because they didn't have to learn programming the way he did. In particular he said ...

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By Perry, 2 years and 10 months ago

Welcome 2006

January 1, 2006, dawns., originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

I welcome the new year, not because there was anything wrong with the old year, but because of the opportunity the new year offers. Though I did not see the old year out with revelry, I did get up early and celebrate the dawn of another year and the chance it offers to get it right this time. This is the 65th time I have seen a new year dawn. I keep hoping that this time I can improve on all the previous attempts at living the year right. We will just have to wait to see, I suppose.

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    • David Steele: Perry: Last week when I was in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to see your house. It is gorgeous! I understand it is on the National Register of Historic Places and the fact you can walk to work each day to our business incubator on campus will be wonderful. I have absolutely fallen...
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