{"id":406,"date":"2003-11-18T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=406"},"modified":"2003-11-18T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:18:38","slug":"ord-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Ord, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>his morning I briefly glanced through code written a couple of days ago: basically the code took care of spitting out data via late binding into Excel. I had no idea what I was thinking but it surely looks neat.\n<\/p>\n<p>Then the bell tolls and you start to become aware that commenting the code is pretty important too. I always &#8216;log&#8217; changes in a seperate text file, but those entries are merely short, explaining what was added or what has been removed. I wonder: if I now have a hard time to exactly comprehend what the code does, how would someone else feel? Hopefully they get struck by the beauty of programming that is <em>boolean magic<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Good news re: the Man vs. Computer battle: Kasparov and the Amazing Three Dee (<em>not one, not two, but three tables and a microphone!!<\/em>) chess computer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&#038;storyID=3847007&#038;section=news\">ended their serie with a tie<\/a>. Yay. Says Kasparov in an utterly silly attempt to be smart:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Machines are getting better, but we humans are also learning.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>We. Humans. Learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I briefly glanced through code written a couple of days ago: basically the code took care of spitting out data via late binding into Excel. I had no idea what I was thinking but it surely looks neat. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}