KNOWLEDGE OF MANY THINGS IS THE SWORD UNSEEN

To help understand what distinguishes object behavior from agent behavior, imagine a falling leaf that weaves back and forth in the air...

There was a time (I believe it was somewhere in the “Roaring Twenties” a century ago), when the profession of being a telephone...

This long passage from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" has some special and mysterious significance to me. I identify with the gentle...

Note: I have finished a short story of the idea outlined below. I will publish it here later, if and only if there seems to be no hope...

It is time to publish Carew’s dictum regarding women: Women (all women) are like rainbows and flowers, and a perfumed, perfect day in...

Kalends (Kal) fell on the first day of the month. Nones (Non) was the 7th of 31 day months March, May, July, and October, and the 5th of...

I loved her books many years ago, when I was a child. But I stopped reading them when I became older and discovered the adventure of SF....

Writing a computer program in a curious blend of 2 things: As much noted everywhere, programming is the process of telling a system of...

This is from the 2nd to Last book (I believe) of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald, who died in 1987. The world has been...

To me, the answer to this is easy, to wit: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043 by acknowledged...

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And there are those who stay clean,...

I would definitely be rusty on this stuff, because I do not program computer language compilers, nor interpreters. Here’s what I (sort...

Take Five (T5) tracking indicator is an emulation of Hi Lo “true count”, in that it produces a number that directly indicates current...

Your Hand What You Do (vs Dealer's Card Showing i.e. Up Card) =========== ================================================ HARD HANDS: 5 thru 8 H [Always Hit.] 9 D(3-6) e H [Double down on dealer showing 3,4,5, or 6. Else Hit.] 10 D(2-9) e H [Double down on dealer up cards 2 thru 9. Else Hit.] 11 H(A) e D [Hit when dealer

This is (as you may recognize) a point from the tao. However there is a funny story that I heard about this point, that I thought you...

+ In many things there is neither gate nor sanctuary—you cannot run and you cannot hide. There is only your ability to size up changing...

I am an old school, old guy. The traditional JavaScript-CSS-HTML base technologies are good enough for the simple things that I do. One...

They did so more slowly and painstakingly, using more fundamental and primitive tools and technologies, such as command-line C compilers,...

Hmmm… This question seems a little “wrong-headed” or off the mark in some way. For a developer, programming languages are “tools of the...

I truly expected that 4GL's (fourth generation languages) and low/no code platforms would come down in price. OTOH, “still so expensive”...