Programming

The IBM 360

I look back on all that turbulence and think, “What exciting times!” Then I realize: I could’ve gone into engineering in any age and the story would’ve been the same. It wasn’t the times at all. Rather, that’s what science and technology are all about. Go into those areas, and you’ll always find yourself in […]

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Indeed, one of my major complaints about the computer field is that whereas Newton could say, "If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants," I am forced to say, "Today we stand on each other's feet." Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way. Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things. Richard Hamming, 1969
   

Ninject and Unity

The Background I have searched high and low for a good dependency injection solution that works well with Unity, even when AOT’d. Unfortunately, even my most brilliantly worded Google queries have rendered fruitless results. I’m a little bit ashamed to admit this, but I even tried ‘Binging’ it. A host of full blown, .NET DI […]

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