You might be good. You might do all the right things. You might think something better is out there. You’re probably right. You have to play the hand to figure that out.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it’s not about winning or losing. Sometimes it’s just about the people you play with.
It’s 2nd and 8. For some reason, my confidence levels seem to be on the uptick. Or maybe it’s just desperation. I have lots of work that needs to get done but more than ever I seem to have a good handle on the material. Perhaps I might have a good idea or two.
I had a cup of coffee with my good friend RL today and I bounced a number of idea off him. I’ve had these ideas mulling in my head for months now and it was finally good to tell someone about it.
Link: Joel on Software - Why I Hate Frameworks.
I sympathize with the poster…
Link: ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says.
Funny how all commencement addresses say the same thing. Sometimes I wonder….
Continuations sound scary but at a basic level they are a simple construct. I’ve been thinking of them as closures that contain your entire execution context. I found the Ruby examples to be the most illuminating for me.
def bar 3.times do |i| callcc { |cont| return cont } print "#{i}\n" endend> a = foo> a.call0> a.call1> a.call2> a3Everytime I invoked call on the returned continuation, it continued from where I had left off within the method bar. Continuations are a useful idea and it would be nice to see in more languages. Interestingly enough, the Java world seems to be warming up to the idea of continuations; Two I’ve read about recently Jetty and RIFECNT.
After understanding this concept, it’s easy to see how something like Continuation Passing Style would work.
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