Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Leah Neukirchen

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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01sep2005

Factor is now two years old, Slava Pestov summarizes it’s history.

#ruby-lang21:39 <dblack>  zem: trying to turn the tide in favor of the 'eigen' terminology? :-)
40 <KirinDave>   That's because it's superior. It's german, you know. Nothing in german or from germany can be bad.
42 *   chris2 proposes "method von braun" and "class von braun" as replacements for eigenmethod and eigenclass
44 <zem> o/~ gather round while i document method von braun
45 <zem> o/~ a method whose binding was always unwinding
47 <chris2>  o/~ it calls other methods, it won't even frown
48 <chris2>  o/~ "exception, exschmeption," says method von braun

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ContextL is a CLOS extension for Context-oriented Programming. Who’d have thought you’d ever need to extend CLOS? ;-) Seriously, read that paper.

Ruby on Rome, Tim Bray plays with JRuby.

So she grew up
Became a confused young woman
Got a confused little job
In a confused little office
— Dan Bern, Confused Little Girl

Lord of the Flies—A Weblog from Downtown New Orleans, Steve Mallett found it. Scary.

#ruby-lang

20:40 <_fatalis> #rubyonrails has more people than ##php

20:40 <rue> Unfortunately, most people are _from_ #php

Massachusetts dumps Microsoft Office, it’s the Boston Tea Party again. Congratulations.

Heise legt Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen Link-Verbot ein, bravo, Heise!

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Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Undecidability by chato. The first half of the 20th century probably can’t be captured better in words of science.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. — Hal Abelson

Performance and Scalability improvement progress report #2, what’s going on at Technorati?

Agile XML Manifesto by Jim Fuller. Excellent choices, Jim.

Four scenarios for media, news, and entertainment by Andy Oram. I like amateurization best.

#ruby-lang

20:09 <_fatalis> how do you get internet in igloos

20:11 <UziMonkey> very carefully

Software Idea #1 - Collaborative Creativity by Dan Zambonini. I had a very similar idea a bit ago, but please someone implement it!

On Language Design, Avi Bryant comments on an interesting Graham quote.

rrencode is a tool to convert ASCII strings to cryptic Ruby.

nighttime green by linguist wannabe

Are you honest when no one’s looking?
Can you summon honey from a telephone?
They sat there with their hooks in the water
and their moustaches caked with airplane glue.
— Silver Jews, Smith and Jones Forever

Hooray for Anthropohobia at gomi non sensei. We live in a time where human contact at the bank is a con. (And if you ever listened to the crap they tell you, you probably think alike). Now, where are the human-contact-less hairdressers?

Shakespeare was a political rebel who wrote in code by Vanessa Thorpe. With enough imagination, you can interpret anything.