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Wednesday, 22. September 2004

DNess, September 22, 2004 11:19:33 AM EST UTC
Antville Test
This is a test of Antville

DNess, September 21, 2004 6:45:23 PM EST UTC
A New Test
Project workers are welcome to attempt to establish
accounts (via me) with appropriate priveleges..

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Monday, 28. July 2003

DNess, July 28, 2003 12:31:28 AM EST UTC
Snctns isnt Pwr
This paper was written to discuss the proposition that Paul Graham's notion that `Succinctness is Power' is not only an oversimplification, it is quite wrong.

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Sunday, 27. July 2003

DNess, July 27, 2003 9:57:07 AM EST UTC
Graham on `Beating the Averages'
Graham has written a paper titled Beating the Averages. This paper contains many errors. And the parallel-ogue here discusses some of them.

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DNess, July 27, 2003 9:56:40 AM EST UTC
Graham on `Hackers and Painters'
Graham has written a paper titled Hackers and Painters. There are lots of problems with this paper. And the parallel-ogue here discusses some of them Apparently Graham is using `hacker' as a self-deprecating synonym for `programmer' and this leads to unnecessary confusion. Then the peper draws many mistaken conclusions from that point forward.

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Monday, 19. May 2003

DNess, May 19, 2003 9:48:20 AM EST UTC
An old Paper: Why Postscript Sucks
Starting in 1991 I wrote a paper complaining about many of the bad design features of Postscript. This was relatively early in its history, and well before PDF was created. I have modernized by the format and will be adding `Current Commentary' to make the paper a parallel-ogue (Original, Current Comment). The paper is available here.

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Tuesday, 6. May 2003

DNess, May 6, 2003 10:04:27 AM EST UTC
Paul Graham on `Succinctness is Power'
This is a parallel-ogue on Graham's note of a year or so ago wherein he argues that succinctness is power. My argument is basically that this

oversimplifies the situation; and
is wrong anyway

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