Yesterday, a Facebook friend posted a link to a great talk by Jeffrey Naughton about the depressing state of affairs in CS research communities. I won’t do justice to that talk by trying to summarize it; follow the link and see it for yourself. His slides reminded me of a few review war stories I’ve […]

Having a background in programming language design, I have acquired a professional obsession about syntax and semantics of words — not just pertaining to programming languages but also pertaining to natural language. If you want to get me all  bitchy in a meeting, stretch the use of common words beyond reason in order to get […]