Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list · GitHub
Falsehoods programmers believe about email
In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.
Does Your Brain Think Accurately About Time?
Chicago Booth’s Kristin Donnelly talks about her research on time-duration asymmetry.
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
A quote from Andrew Quinn
One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the …
Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone
About a decade ago, a handful of Google's most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic.
Temporal Logic
Broadly construed, Temporal Logic covers all formalapproaches to representing and reasoning about time and temporalinformation. More narrowly, it usually refers to the modal-logic styleapproach introduced by Arthur Prior in the 1950s under the nameTense Logic and subsequently developed further by manylogicians and computer scientists. Temporal Logic has been widely usedas a formalism for clarifying philosophical issues about time, as aframework for defining the semantics of temporal expressions innatural language, as a language for encoding temporal knowledge inartificial intelligence, and as a tool for specification andverification of computer programs and systems.
When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading"
Worst Take of the Week: Tyler Austin Harper, please download Claude Code
The Paradox of Artificial Intelligence is Feeling More Paradoxical
The tech word, the academic world, the business world and a few other worlds are having a moment over ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence innovations. For those not in the know, ChatGPT is an…
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent nine years turning an idea into a shipping standard.
Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day - NDepend Blog
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the definition of logical … Continue reading Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day
Rationally irrational
I waste a lot of time sweating small details of code. Stuff that has absolutely zero impact on anything quantifiable. It took me a long time to stop feeling bad about this. I’m not talking about tu…
