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C Compilers Disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem

The implication, of course, is that the compiler has disproved Fermat’s Last Theorem.  Faced with this incredible mathematical discovery, I held my breath and added a line of code at the end of the function to print the counterexample: the values of a, b, and c.  Unfortunately, with their bluffs called in this fashion, all of the compilers emitted code that actually performed the requested computation, which of course does not terminate.  I got the feeling that these tools — like Fermat himself — had not enough room in the margin to explain their reasoning.

via blog.regehr.org and apgwoz.

This is so geeky and confusing, I'm embarassed for the people who made it, but I wish I had made it myself.

Toward a Read/Write Urbanism

Provided that we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems fairly straightforward is letting these resources report on their own status. Information about failures would propagate not merely to other objects on the network but reach you and me as well, in terms we can relate to, via the provisions we’ve made for issue-tracking.

And because our own human senses are still so much better at spotting emergent situations than their machinic counterparts, and will probably be for quite some time yet to come, there’s no reason to leave this all up to automation. The interface would have to be thoughtfully and carefully designed to account for the inevitable bored teenagers, drunks, and randomly questing fingers of four-year-olds, but what I have in mind is something like, “Tap here to report a problem with this bus shelter.”

via www.worldchanging.com

So pretentious, but so good.

Have a Blog? Add your Posts to our Player Newsfeeds

Our new linking tool is a javascript bookmarklet that has a couple of interesting applications.

1) If you are typing in a supported blogging or bulletin board tool, clicking the bookmarklet will take the text you've typed in and wrap every active player's name with a link to their Baseball Reference page. Supported tools include WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, phpBB, invision, and a couple of others. I'm happy to add more if a tool you use is not currently supported.
2) If you are on a web page with player names in the text. Select the text with your mouse, click the bookmarklet and we'll add links to Baseball Reference pages for the player names that appear in the selected text.

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This is @anywhere for Baseball Players, terrifically useful & simple.

Things to do at the beginning of each project

It’s been said that the two hardest parts of a project are the beginning and the end.  In the middle, it’s often perfectly clear what should have gone differently at the start.  But when you’re kicking off a project, you’re often so preoccupied trying to establish cordial working relationships and understand the nature of the project that some of the trivial but essential details get neglected.  That’s too bad, because it’s often the trivial essentials that build trust.

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On first read you're going to say "I do all of these things, it's so trivial!" On second read, you're going to realize that you don't.

The Unwritten Rulebook of Baseball

I have decided to show you the “Unwritten Rulebook.”  Understand that what I am doing is going to bother a lot of players.  But it is time for you to see this.  You will notice that the rules are presented in outline form.  There is a rule and its corresponding definition.  In the end there is a summary and finally instructions about who can and cannot see this.

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Testing.

Flip Flop Fly Ballin'

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People Who Win Multiple Cy Youngs By Their 25th Birthday Should Not Be Subjected To This

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Giants promotion guy #1: ‘What do you think we should do to promote our wearable blanket night?’ Giants promotion guy #2: ‘I don’t know. How’s this sound? We bring the best young pitcher our franchise has ever seen, dress him like Orko from He-Man and make him pose like he’s trying to conjure up a Hadouken fireball?’ Giants promotion guy #1: ‘Love it! Make it happen people!’

Tim Lincecum is a friend of hello, typepad, but this is just too much.