Emacs reborn
I ve used a few editors in my career. I started with the venerablevi. No, scratch that. I started withBorland s Turbo C++ No! Scratch that too. I started typing BASIC at an...
Oscar Bonilla
This is the personal website of @ob. I hope you find it useful.
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The Artisan and the Engineer
There s a scene in The Matrix Reloaded where Neo meets Seraph, the Oracle s bodyguard. After an intense fight, Seraph stops and explains he had to be sure Neo was The One. Neo replies, ...
How to Choose a Programming Font
You stare at code all day. Make your typeface work for you, not against you.
How to Pair Fonts
Part two of my navel-gazing series on the design of the new website. You have chosen one font. Can you choose two?
How to Choose a Font
Part one of my navel-gazing series on the design of the new website. If you are going to write, your words will be read in some font. Are you going to leave such an important decision to chance? Of...
Meet the New Blog, Much Better than the Old Blog
Where I do some navel-gazing and briefly describe what’s changed in the new website.
Does practice really matter that much?
We ve all heard it: Practice makes perfect, you need 10,000 hours(10 years)! Be an expert in anything! Well, it s not so clear:Brooke Macnamara of Princeton University and colleagues lo...
Could this recent Apple Bug be a bad merge?
Adam Langley sexplanation of the recent Applesecurity bug in iOS makes me suspicious of whatever SCM Apple usesfor developing iOS. The problem was in this function:static OSStatusSSLVerifySig...
Why I don’t trust rankings
From arecentarticle on Slate about howU.S. News ranksuniversities:U.S. News changed the scores last year because a new team ofeditors and statisticians decided that the books had been cooked toensu...
Bayes' Theorem Using Trimmed Trees
A reader sent me the link to the followingvideo:I think it does a great job of walking you through multipleapplications of Bayes' theorem. I find it easier to use the equations,but we all learn in ...