Speechless, I am...

Speechless, I am...

Weird people...

Weird people...  An interesting article that actually is about weird people.  No, I'm not the subject of it.  Though perhaps I should be :)

SpaceX gets injunction prohibiting ULA from buying Russian rockets...

SpaceX gets injunction prohibiting ULA from buying Russian rockets...  I wouldn't have expected them to win this injunction, but they did.  SpaceX now has the chance to compete for the deal...

For 20 years now...

For 20 years now ... I've been saying that magnetic tape data storage is going to die, imminently.  I've always been wrong.  Now this – and I may be even wronger...

Geek: co-routines and state machines do basically the same thing...

Geek: co-routines and state machines do basically the same thing...  I've never had occasion to investigate co-routines, as I've never written programs in a language that supports them intrinsically.  But as I read this article and thought about it, I realized that my implementations of state machines in languages like Java, C, or assembly were basically indistinguishable from a co-routine implementation in the same language.  So ... languages that intrinsically support co-routines are actually also intrinsically supporting state machines.

State machines are one of my favorite programming techniques for dealing with a messy real world with minimum complexity.  This makes me want to investigate Ruby – and nothing else I've ever read about Ruby did that :)

Ukraine: it's on...

Ukraine: it's on...  I can't help but be reminded of the run-up to WWII, specifically Hitler's deceptions and subsequent invasion of Poland.  I also can't help but worry that the West's non-support of Ukraine will lead to further “explorations” by Putin.

Only time will tell.  The choices now are Putin's, as the West has already decided to leave Ukraine to its fate.  What will Putin do?  Will he back off, worried about the reactions from Obama, Merkle, et al?  Or will he sense opportunity and start the troops rolling into eastern Ukraine?

My bet is on the latter.  I'd love to be wrong...