Joining a meme.
I can't sleep. Stuff running around in my head. So I'm joining a meme, that I can't remember who mentioned it first.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you
Well, there's several books equidistant from me, when I'm sitting at my desk. Here's the one that's only *slightly* more convenient than the rest.
"Just make sure the code you execute in those dying milliseconds doesn't rely on the information that triggered the assertion failure in the first place."
This is from "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
About the same distance away:
"Normally, when dealing with corpora in statistical NLP, we will want explicit markup that we can see."
This is from "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" by Manning and Schuetze.
One more:
"The answer is that Ruby looks first in the immediate class of an object, then in the mixins included into that class, and then in superclasses and their mixins."
From "Programming Ruby" by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt. (Yeah, two of 'em wrote the first book, I mentioned too.)
I'm not sure it's *possible* to be more than two feet away from a book in my apartment, unless you're in the bathroom. I can probably reach about 20 without moving out of my chair.
This says a) something about how many books we have, but more importantly, b) something about how messy our apartment is right now. What'dya expect? It's the end of the semester.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you
Well, there's several books equidistant from me, when I'm sitting at my desk. Here's the one that's only *slightly* more convenient than the rest.
"Just make sure the code you execute in those dying milliseconds doesn't rely on the information that triggered the assertion failure in the first place."
This is from "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
About the same distance away:
"Normally, when dealing with corpora in statistical NLP, we will want explicit markup that we can see."
This is from "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" by Manning and Schuetze.
One more:
"The answer is that Ruby looks first in the immediate class of an object, then in the mixins included into that class, and then in superclasses and their mixins."
From "Programming Ruby" by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt. (Yeah, two of 'em wrote the first book, I mentioned too.)
I'm not sure it's *possible* to be more than two feet away from a book in my apartment, unless you're in the bathroom. I can probably reach about 20 without moving out of my chair.
This says a) something about how many books we have, but more importantly, b) something about how messy our apartment is right now. What'dya expect? It's the end of the semester.