Posts Tagged ‘iteration’
Tips to improve your writing
|1. Avoid alliteration. Always.2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.3. Employ the vernacular.4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. 5. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.6. Remember to never split an infinitive.7. Contractions aren’t necessary.8. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.9. One should never generalize.10. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo [...]
The Borg versus Microsoft
|Picard “Mr. LaForge, have you had any success with your attempts at finding a weakness in the Borg? And Mr. Data, have you been able to access their command pathways?”Geordi “Yes, Captain. In fact, we found the answer by searching through our archives on late Twentieth-century computing technology.”Geordi presses a key, and a logo appears [...]