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  • Prioritizing by Anxiety. I see what he’s getting at although I’m not entirely convinced. Obviously No Free Lunch tells us that no “prioritize-by-X” strategy could be appropriate to all circumstances. (Including the FIFO algorithm of Mind Traffic Control). Because of this, the less time wasted imagining you can specify priorities in advance, the better. Because…

  • Pencil Project looks interesting. (hat-tip @adrianh)

  • Tonight’s tweak to Mind Traffic Control : there’s now an “[untagged]” filter … so if you are using #tags but you find those untagged items are getting lost when you aren’t filtering, well, that’s the solution. Chose the “[untagged]” filter to restrict your queue to only those items *without* #tags.

  • hat-tip Bill Seitz : Dr. Drang builds a python-based desktop-like notebook.

  • Lisp will be 50 in October.

  • Vagmi’s Open Letter to Programeter (nice one)

  • Wrote a wiki for Caché (in CSP / ObjectScript) Obviously … I mean, what would you expect? 🙂

  • I think this is probably the most mind-blowingly stupid and bad thing I’ve seen for a while. There is no automated metric on earth that can get even a vague approximation of the value of a piece of programming. My colleague, yesterday, solved a fiendish long-troubling bug, by removing one character of faulty indentation from…

  • A, surprising, good thing about Caché. It’s “alive”.

  • On another blog, I come out of the closet.

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