Pinboard: bookmarks for shadowsun7 tagged 'language'

"After spending a bunch of time thinking about these ideas, over a few days now, I finally recognized in myself what I call "Small Boy with a Patterns Book". You can always tell when someone on your team is reading the Gang of Four book (Gamma, et al., Design Patterns). Every day or so, this person comes in with a great idea for a place in the system that is just crying out for the use of Composite, or whatever chapter he read last night.

There's an old saying: To a small boy with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. As programmers, we call into the same trap all too often. We learn about some new technology or solution, and we immediately begin seeing places to apply it."

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may 2010 by shadowsun7

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The Jew's Daughter
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april 2010 by shadowsun7

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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice

A scathing critique on The Elements of Style

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april 2010 by shadowsun7

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Javascript: It's Not Just For Browsers

How you can use Javascript for writing web servers.

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march 2010 by shadowsun7

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Salon.com | The name game

Hilarious. The way some companies pay people to name their brands is worth a read.

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february 2010 by shadowsun7

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On Language - Crash Blossoms - NYTimes.com

When Headlines Go Wrong.

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february 2010 by shadowsun7

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Stevey's Home Page - Tour de Babel

Programming languages review by an Amazon employee.

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january 2010 by shadowsun7

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The Second Pass - a review of Lolita

On characterization.

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january 2010 by shadowsun7

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Why snark works - a grammar

Why snark works on the Internet: in essence, because being snarky is inclusive and fun, and far easier than explaining one's view.

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october 2009 by shadowsun7

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Singapore in the new millennium ... - Google Books

Note the sections on Singapore theatre, and how the fractured nature of the English-language theatre medium is a reflection of the fractured nature of Sinagpore's past.

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august 2009 by shadowsun7

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ongoing · Less Like Oration

Writing in the Internet era is becoming less like Oration and more like Communication. It's not clear that this is a bad thing.

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april 2009 by shadowsun7

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Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books

By Zadie Smith, an essay

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february 2009 by shadowsun7

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