...it's all just smoke and mirrors? Ultimately, any program running in 99% of the computers out there today is running the old fetch-execute cycle on a Von Neuman architecture: A processor fetches the next instruction, executes it, stores the result, and goes to the next instruction. Atop that, we've layered: Subroutines, Modules, Functional Programming, Structured Programming, Object-Orientation (Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition/Aggregation), Closures, Atoms, Processes, Multithreading, Semaphores, etc. We're desperately trying to make the digital computer be more than the sum of its parts, just as a living human brain is somehow more than a collection of neurons and synapses. We *desperately* want abstractions...need them, in fact. That's the whole point of the progression from bare binary programming, through assembly, to high-level languages, etc.--abstraction. The speed and capacity of computers grows. The speed and capacity of the minds of progra...
can we let all the morons who think they can do better have a go at it - and then make them sit through the call in shows where morons who can't properly speak english slander them voraciously?
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ReplyDeleteThere are a few thankless jobs in sports:
- Notre Dame football coach
- Kentucky Basketball coach
In either case, nothing short of national championship is acceptable.
But alas, I have had more fun cheering for worse UK teams. Maybe some of it is old-geezer-ism. I remember the good-old-days like they were yesterday and it's starting to require effort to drag my butt up the stairs to my seat at the game.
ReplyDeleteYou had to love the Pitino teams, particularly those of the early 90's--undermanned, outgunned, but they hustled, played as a team, and man could they SHOOT!
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