November 2007 Archives

Coltrane - Giant steps

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This is a great way to experience Trane's music.

Work Song

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Hard Bop at its best...

My first exposure to jazz...

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I think I first saw this when I was 8 or 10...

Amplifiers...

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Languages like Smalltalk and Lisp (always got to give Lisp its props) are amplifiers. They make you more of whatever it is that you already are. If you're a bad programmer, they're going to make you worse, they'll let you shoot your foot off in more interesting ways than you can imagine.

If you're a great programmer, they're going to make you that much greater, they're going to let you become a God, and live entirely in a universe of your own abstractions. Anything you don't like you can objectify or macro'fy and never have to think about it again.

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Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot...