The Mathematical Hacker – Evan Miller
By Evan Miller November 16, 2012 (Corrections) The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as: Eric Raymond: Mathematics is unnecessa
Why I Program in Erlang – Evan Miller
Why I Program In Erlang By Evan Miller October 20, 2012 Translations: Urdu Erlang is a twenty-five-year-old programming language that has yet to win a popularity contest, and almost certainly will never win any medals for speed, let alone any tiaras for syntactic beauty. The language is slow, awkward, and ugly. Refactoring Erlang code is a pain. Yet for almost five years, I have spent a large chun
In Praise of Small Data – Evan Miller
By Evan Miller October 20, 2012 Lately there has been a lot of talk about the “Big Data” (petabytes and so forth) and how much valuable information is just waiting to be extracted from it. One might think that analyzing more data is better than analyzing less data. Often, this is true. More often, it is not. There are diminishing returns to the amount of information you can extract from data. The
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
By Evan Miller February 6, 2009 (Changes) Translations: Dutch Estonian German Russian Ukrainian PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by. WRONG SOLUTION #1: Score = (Positive ratings) − (Negative ratings) Why it is wrong: Supp
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How To Read an Unlabeled Sales Chart – Evan Miller
