So I am working on a theoretical blog post on expressions based upon some of the little nuances that I have learned over the last week. Some neat stuff. In my research I came upon a neat little series of articles called "Expressive C++" by Eric Niebler...

Commodore USA has released a modern replica of the classic Commodore 64 with state of the art internals!



It is being shipped with Ubuntu but is compatible with Windows if you choose. Its just a modern PC in a C64 shell. Although the plan seems to be to also provide a classic C64 emulator (although it seems that it is not done yet as...

Lets take a common little riddle and encode it into a little game.

The Fox, then Chicken, and Grain...

Lookup Tables

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a very common pattern in programming is converting a number into some enumerated string. Like converting 1 into January, 2 into February etc. -- these kinds of problems are often done with switch statements like so:

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Benoit Mandelbrot passed away on October 14th of 2010. Somehow I had missed the news of his passing. Today I was attracted to an article on Big Think because "Mandelbrot" was in the title. The first line stopped me cold.

Although I was introduced to fractals by James Gleick's "...