because there are few things that are less logical than business logic
So I took delivery of a new Arduino Micro at the weekend. Since this is my first foray into Arduino development, naturally I had to download and install the Arduino IDE and then plug the thing in. So I got out a micro USB lead and plugged it into the computer. The LEDs on the board came on as they're supposed to. All well and good so far. But when you connect an Arduino to your computer and load…
I can't remember what the exact question was, but I do remember that it involved adding two three-digit numbers together. Let's just say it was 247 + 389. Which, as any reasonably intelligent seven year old should be able to work out, comes to 636. Seven year old yours truly had worked this out, only to have it marked wrong. Say what?!!? I went over my working carefully. Seven plus nine is…
My height is 1 metre and 78 centimetres. I refuse point-blank to quote that in feet and inches. My weight, as of 12:30 on Saturday 19 August, is 79.8 kilograms. One again, I don't care what that is in stones and pounds, so working it out is left as an exercise for the reader. Over the past three months I have made it my goal to take a five kilometre walk every day that I can. Once again,…
Now if you're a Christian homeschooling parent, looking for a science curriculum that takes a Christian worldview while teaching accurate and reliable information about the history and nature of God's creation, I would recommend that you look no further than BioLogos's Integrate . In recent years, BioLogos have risen in prominence as champions of factual accuracy and honest discussion about…
Another Bible verse that is repeatedly misunderstood and incorrectly portrayed as an anti-intelletual manifesto is Matthew 18:3 : And he (Jesus) said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." I've heard many interpretations of that verse over the years. Many of them make good and noble statements in themselves, but…
1 Corinthians 1:18-31 is probably one of the most misunderstood passages in the Bible. 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where…
Some people insist that the theory of evolution, and deep geological time with its millions and billions of years, are all a lie, and a complete fabrication by the scientific community. But could this really be the case? First of all, consider what kind of a lie we are talking about here. One that spans millions of research papers published by millions of scientists over a period of more than two…
Whenever I address young earth claims, I always start off by quoting Deuteronomy 25:13-16. ¹³Do not have two differing weights in your bag — one heavy, one light. ¹⁴Do not have two differing measures in your house — one large, one small. ¹⁵You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you. ¹⁶For the Lᴏʀᴅ your God detests…
How much scientific knowledge do you need to fact-check young Earth claims? Literal Six Day Young Earth Creationists love to point to the credentials of their leaders. Andrew Snelling and Steve Austin have PhDs in geology; Jason Lisle, Russell Humphreys and John Hartnett have PhDs in astrophysics; and John Sanford has a PhD in genetics. The irony of this is, of course, that they are quite happy to…
The Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a set of eight assumptions, originally noted by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems, that are commonly made by programmers and architects who are new to distributed computing and network architecture. They are: The network is reliable; Latency is zero; Bandwidth is infinite; The network is secure ; Topology doesn't change; There is one…