Comments for Collin Anderson

Comment on Stuff by your big sis

your big sis — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:28:26 +0000

\”And you know what? All I missed were some of the books.\”

yeah, my problem is that MOST of my stuff is books. did you know i have four bookshelves in my room, collin? it\’s true! one is in the closet because it doesn\’t fit anywhere else!

now, i probably could get rid of a lot of those books, but the thing is, i don\’t know which ones i\’m going to wish i had in the next few years!

Comment on Stuff by Karen

Karen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:39:04 +0000

A great post / essay to read right in the midst of downsizing and getting ready for the move. Thanks!

Comment on my sister is conducting an informal survey by Anne S

Anne S — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:34:02 +0000

Probably Mark as well.

Comment on my sister is conducting an informal survey by Ben Reinhardt

Ben Reinhardt — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:29:06 +0000

interesting. the one i have read the least is mark, so i guess that is the one i will go with.

Comment on Working full time for One:Ten this summer! by Mike Zusi

Mike Zusi — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:27:58 +0000

Great. I hope you plan to come and see us once in a while!

Comment on Working full time for One:Ten this summer! by Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:48:29 +0000

Yay! I know some other people who are working there this summer too!

Comment on Facebook by TJ Ryan

TJ Ryan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:18:28 +0000

Facebook realized what email didnt’t. We should integrate text, photo and video communication! Its much more efficient at communicating things then email. But im not saying email doesn’t have a place.
When I email people for a group project, its a bunch of x500 names and God only knows who is who. With FB I can put a face to the name.
The other day my friend Clare came up to me and said, “how do you know Liam”, turns out Liam and I had mutual friends we didnt know about and me and Clare had mutual friends that we didnt know about. We all hung out later that weekend and it was a great time. It creates a real network which email doesnt.
I also think facebook serves the same purpose as gchat does for Division folks;status updates, little notes throughout the day, messages. So in a way Division folks are using something i would consider comparable to facebook anyway.
One think i think facebook should do would be to loss some advertising and allow for sending attachments like email. Maybe they already do.
Well what do people think? All I ask for, is that people do not think theyre too good for it, most times its just that your friends are on a different program doing the same shtuff.
F to the a - c -e, b to the double ok!

Comment on Closures in Python by Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:09:35 +0000

You are the brick! Reading stuff like this written in the way like this is a great pleasure for me.

Comment on Closures in Python by Jayce

Jayce — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:05:32 +0000

Used to the scoping rules of C, C++, and Java, I used to think that constructs like for/while/try-catch-finally blocks had their own scope and soon found they didn’t. It was only after reading how all Python scopes are associated with Python objects that the light-bulb went on! :-)

Modules, functions, classes, objects, packages, etc. are all objects, and each object has its scope (a dictionary).

This is kind of a neat idea. However, it could trip up those who are used to the block=scope rule from C/C++/Java/Perl.

Comment on Closures in Python by Jeremy Osterhouse

Jeremy Osterhouse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:43:31 +0000

The correct method implements a closure.