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  A programmer's view of the Universe, part 3: The Death of Richard Dawkins

  Posted: May 17th, 2009, 8:47pm MDT by Steve Yegge

  We're getting close to the end of my blog. After today's entry, I only have three left to write. After that, I'll only blog anonymously or (more likely) not at all.This is part three of five in my "Programmer's View of the Universe" series. I struggled for a while with how best to introduce the ideas in this installment, and ultimately opted for a short story.This is a science fiction short
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  Have you ever legalized marijuana?

  Posted: April 8th, 2009, 8:07pm MDT by Steve Yegge

  Over the holidays I read a neat book called Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely. The book is a fascinating glimpse into several bizarre and unfortunate bugs in our mental software. These bugs cause us to behave in weird but highly predictable ways in a bunch of everyday situations.For instance, one chapter explains why bringing an uglier version of
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  Story Time

  Posted: March 12th, 2009, 5:06pm MDT by Steve Yegge

  So I've got all these fancy blog posts planned. More than planned, actually — they're well underway. But it's also been a busy couple of months, so nothing's really ready yet.To make my schedule even worse, I kind of sort of got myself a little bit addicted to the writings of this one blogger. Normally I can't frigging stand blogs, including my own. Everyone always asks me what blogs I read,
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  A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart

  Posted: December 26th, 2008, 8:32pm MST by Steve Yegge

  This is the second installment of a little series of discussions. They're not much more than that, just discussions. And I hope I'm inviting discussion rather than quenching it. But I'll be honest — the goal of this series is to pound a stake through the heart of a certain way of thinking about the world that has become quite popular. If my series fails in that regard, I hope it may still
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  Fable II: Arguably Better than Getting Your Head Crapped On

  Posted: December 24th, 2008, 11:39pm MST by Steve Yegge

  I finished Fallout 3 maybe six or eight weeks ago, and it was hands-down one of the best games I've ever played. A game like that gets you in the mood for more gaming, so I thought to myself: "Hey, I should plop down $160 for Fable II!"Actually that's not exactly what I thought, but it's what happened. I bought the game for $60, fired it up, got up to the part in the intro where a bird craps on
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  Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs

  Posted: November 16th, 2008, 3:19pm MST by Steve Yegge

  So! I have all these cool things I want to write about, but I broke my thumbnail. Can you tell that's a long story?See, this summer I got excited about playing guitar again. I usually switch between all-guitar and all-piano every other year or so. This summer I dusted off the guitars and learned a bunch of pieces, and even composed one. I was prepping for — among other things — a multimedia
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  A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

  Posted: October 28th, 2008, 3:52pm MDT by Steve Yegge

  I write a column for computer programmers called "Stevey's Blog Rants." It's basically a magazine column — I publish to it about once a month. The average length of my articles is about 12 pages, although they can range anywhere from 4 to 40 pages, depending on how I'm feeling. But for precedent, don't think blogs: think of Reader's Digest. The blog format sets the wrong expectations.Hence,
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  The Universal Design Pattern

  Posted: October 19th, 2008, 9:06pm MDT by Steve Yegge

    This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. — Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach Note: Today's entry is a technical article: it isn't funny. At least not intentionally.Update, Oct 20th 2008: I've added an Updates section, where I'll try to track significant responses, at least for a week or so. There are three entries so far.Contents
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  The Bellic School of Management Training

  Posted: September 28th, 2008, 5:08pm MDT by Steve Yegge

  I haven't been blogging much this summer. Mostly it's because all my free time has been spent engaged in an important research project called "What Would Niko Bellic Do?" I've been enrolled in a high-quality Management Scenario Simulator with the unconventional name "Grand Theft Auto IV", probably some sort of inside joke, and I've been going through all its Developer Management training
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  Programming's Dirtiest Little Secret

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 10:59am MDT by Steve Yegge

   "And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type"— Mr. PinkThis is another one I've wanted to write forever. Man, I've tried a bunch of times. No ruck. Not Rucky. Once again I'm stuck feeling so strongly about something that I'm tripping over myself trying to get my point across.So! Only one thing left to try: bust open a bottle of wine and see if that