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Title: Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience
Tags: language design thoughts
A brief essay considering the link between spoken languages and programming languages and Paul Graham's theory of Blub.
Title: On Writing
Tags: thoughts writing
It turns out that I spend a lot of time writing. I have developed my own aesthetic, and today it seemed like a good time to write about that aesthetic, and also the process of learning to write.
Title: Midnight Philosophy in The Garden of Good and Evil
Tags: thoughts
Whatever one might be tempted to label it as, its just a disjoint collection of sentence scribed by someone who ought to be in bed.
Title: Using Our Own Software
Tags: software thoughts
Do you have software that you wrote that you use on a daily basis? A few programs, or none at all? Why or why not?
Title: Replacing the Karma Social Model with Whuffie
Tags: thoughts
Recently I ran into the concept of Whuffie and immediately fell for its charm as a potential solution to many of the flaws of current karma implementations in web applications.
Title: Changes from Living
Tags: thoughts
Translations: Japanese
I try to keep my philosophical musings pretty private. Statements of purpose and meaning have a scale of grandeur that as of yet I can't translate into a public setting. Still, a simple thought: <strong>living is changing.</strong>
Title: Reflections on the old year, and the new one
Tags: JET japan thoughts
Translations: Japanese
Its been a strange five months in Japan, and I'm sure the next seven will be strange too. But its not such a bad life. It seemed like a good day to write down some thoughts about where I am and where I am going. So I did.
Title: Context is a Parameter in Calculating Truth
Tags: Pirsig thoughts
Some thoughts about one of Pirsig's arguments in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FZen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry%2Fdp%2F0553277472&tag=irratioexuber-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=irratioexuber-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, as viewed from the eyes of a programmer. Are my thoughts valid? Correct? True? Well. That probably depends on context.