2010.10.30
Farewell to Disks
A classic web-comic illustrates how idle Wikipedia browsing can lead us from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to Fatal hilarity (and worse). The comic doesn’t show the path leading from A to B, and finding it is an interesting challenge—think how you would engineer a system that could answer such questions. I believe that this problem and a solution I’ll present demonstrate some programming tools and techniques that will become increasingly important in the years to come.
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This means that when I browse my email using Thunderbird,
I waste time trying to remember whether I have responded
to a particular message.
Here is how I solved the problem.
