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So: the technical reason we started counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960′s, you could shave a few cycles off of a program’s compilation time on an IBM 7094. The social reason is that we had to save every cycle we could, because if the job didn’t finish fast it might not finish at all and you never know when you’re getting bumped off the hardware because the President of IBM just called and fuck your thesis, it’s yacht-racing time. http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ via Infovore

…Ruiu posited another theory that sounds like something from the screenplay of a post-apocalyptic movie: “badBIOS,” as Ruiu dubbed the malware, has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps. Ars Technica

The Ruby ‘case’ expression is a powerful beast: a multiway ‘if’ on steroids. Programming Ruby No joke, I almost leapt off the couch when I first saw these in action.

Howdy. This blog is a map of my path toward and through MakerSquare. Code snippets, revelations, and general musings are to follow.