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Wed 2005-11-16 14:38
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.comWed 2005-11-16 17:05
HAKMEM?
The first thing I thought of was HAKMEM (see definitions at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM), FOLDOC (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?HAKMEM), or the Jargon File (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/HAKMEM.html), if you're not familiar with it), which I saw described as "A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. [...] Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia."

And if such a motley collection of "useful" and "powerful" items can coexist with "trivia", and be interesting enough that people published it and other people read it, why not your musings?
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[identity profile] oneplusme.livejournal.comWed 2005-11-16 18:35
Re: HAKMEM?
This also (to me at least) suggests that a Wiki might be a useful format if you wanted to allow it to accrete random bits of vaguely-related information from the sorts of people who'd be likely to read it.

(The only major downsides are that such a beast would require some maintenance (at least enough to counter any annoying sabotage); and that, judging by my publicfile logs, there are more than a few security holes (of the embarrassing "request a URI ending in '|cat_;_nastycommand_;_nastycommand'" variety) in some of the standard Wiki software.)
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