10feb2013

February 10, 2013

Your massively offline college is broken

Clay Shirky continuing the debate on what software and the Internet will do to higher education. It's a crazy time to be putting kids into college.

The exceptional beauty of Doom 3's source code

Two words: minimal templates.

Functional programming in C++

John Carmack gives some practical reasons for why and how to use functional programming in C++.

Focus on work, not the methodology

Good ideas, but you have to remember that in any real company, funding and governance are as important as actually building the software.

Hey extraverts, enough is enough

Please leave us alone so we can get some work done.

(Format inspired by Trivium.)