I heard a great metaphor in my software engineering class today. We were talking about agile processes and somehow the issue of not relying too heavily on any one member came up. I think the term “heroic programming” was on the slide. It made me think of that one person who tries to take on [...]
Archive for 31 October 2007
Bus Number
Posted: 31 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: agile methods, bus number, heroic programming, humor, programming, scrum, software engineering
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ACL 2008 Student Workshop CFP
Posted: 31 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: acl, call for papers, cfp, computational linguistics, conferences, student workshop, workshops
The Call for Papers (CFP) is out for the Student Workshop at next year’s ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) conference. I’ve been playing around with a couple of side ideas, it would be nice to have something to submit to this. We’ll see. Full CFP is below the jump.
The Bush’s Mental Health
Posted: 31 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: big corporations, endless war, evil politicians, insanity, iran, iraq war, kucinich, nuclear weapons, politics, presidential election
Dennis Kucinich is not afraid to say the thing many people are wondering. Is Bush freakin nuts? Does he really think World War III is going to break out if Iran gains the knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons? Who are the sides? The middle east versus the rest of the world? Oh and [...]
