leifw

I'm headed home from the Velocity 2010 Conference, which was great again. This was the jobs board at the conference:

It was overflowing. More than one posting had been knocked off the board onto the floor.

In addition roughly 10 companies paid to have career booths at the conference. At least in web tech, it appears companies are seriously hiring.

Equality is one of those operators that you expect to be transitive. In general, we expect that

if
a=b
and
b=c
then
a=c

Sadly that's not always the case in PHP.

(1 == true) => true
(true == "true") => true
(1 == "true") => false

I’m convinced that we’re living in a global meta-culture badly damaged by future shock.

The Tea Partiers are a symptom of this. So are the Young-Earth Creationists and the Biblical literalists.

Complexity hurts, and many people can’t handle it, so they retreat into comfortingly comprehensible certainties.

--Charles Stross in a book salon about his recent Trade of Queens

I grew up with Biblical literalist and Young-Earth Creationist views. I have strong sympathies with aspects of the Tea Partiers complaints. However, I have to agree with Stross that comprehensible certainties often appear to be refuges from peevish perplexities.