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[If you've got a spare 5 minutes, check out the new web piece by jimpunk.com. It's got sound but it's not loud. Let's call this an elegy for a certain brand of techno-futurism, but perhaps for a constructivist ethos as a whole, whether it be the international style, those assembly-line short haircuts or gray browser windows. A beautiful, melancholic mechanical ballet that certainly humbles this "digital poet."]
E scape into The 3rd Page
Posted by: The 3rd Page - Volume 3 at January 5, 2004 12:48 PMWhen the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
Posted by: Dorothy at January 19, 2004 05:08 AMWhen Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you're programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.
Posted by: Heneage at January 19, 2004 05:10 AM