Author Archives: highperformancecoder

After nearly 16 years, I am now saying a long farewell the the Aegis source code management system (http://aegis.sf.net). Aegis was, in its day, years ahead of its time. But now, with Aegis’s author dead, and only a handful of … Continue reading →

Like many, I make a living from open source software development, which I develop on Linux, but then build on Windows and Macintosh. I do have a Mac, a rather cute Mac mini, which is a cost effective way of … Continue reading →

If you’re like me, you like having lots of regression tests to keep you covered from making stupid mistakes when hacking up some complicated piece of code. Whilst code coverage tools exist for the major development enviroments, one major blind … Continue reading →

In this paper, we reexamine Bruno Marchal’s Movie Graph Argument, which demonstrates a basic incompatibility between computationalism and materialism. We discover that the incompatibility is only manifest in singular classical-like universes. If we accept that we live in a Multiverse, … Continue reading →

Recently, the phenomenon of fake open-access peer reviewed journals has been put under the spotlight, with blogs, a New York Times article and even a special issue in Nature covering this issue. I just wanted to cover anecdotally my own … Continue reading →

It seems like both Elliot and Alan have now been banned from FoR. See Elliot’s posting on BoI

OK – yes I know this is a provocative title. But it is often claimed that Linux is not ready for the desktop. I have been using Linux as my primary desktop environment since 1996, so the statement always surprises … Continue reading →

Way back in the dim distant past (well, the 1980s, for those who remember), whilst a PhD student of theoretical physics, I noticed a distemper amongst my colleagues attempting to write their theses using a word processor. It involved much … Continue reading →

I have had a mediocre experience with Tiger – the first couple of flights were delayed significantly – taking 5 hours to travel between Melbourne to Sydney each way, and more recently being caught up with recent CAA grounding of … Continue reading →

On Thursday 25th of August, I was banned from posting to the FoR discussion list by the moderator Alan Forrester, on the basis of flouting a newly made up posting rule, without warning, or it appears, even reply. Many people … Continue reading →