News You Can Bruise for February 27, 2003

Thu Feb 27 2003 10:56 Why Programmers Hate Government:

Anirvan points out that the ISBN space is being extended to 13 digits. It's the IPv6 of publishing.

Thu Feb 27 2003 16:29 Redundant Search Requests:

i need a girl(female version)

Thu Feb 27 2003 22:05 Not-So-Eternal Recurrence:

Four years ago I wrote three programs in three different languages (Perl, Java, and awk, I think it was). Today I wrote the same program three different times, in progressively less hacky ways. I call this the "three stages of App", and it's the best lead-in I can think of to the topic of configuration interfaces.

technology/languages/python

News You Can Bruise for 2003 February 27