Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08apr2006
Mathematical Writing (PDF), by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts. Pleasant read.
Special dates, now featuring Pi Day, Planck’s Day, Planck’s Other Day, Newton’s Day, Agrovado’s Day, Gravitational Constant Day, sqrt(2)sday, E day, and e day. There is no i day.
Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream, as if I gave a fuck what everyone else uses.
Topology of Venn Diagrams, by Tony Phillips. “Topologically faithful diagrams exist for one, two or three statements, but not if the number of statements is four or more…” Features a hyper-cube.
The Delta Web, “The idea is to define a markup language called “delta” for describing changes to Web-based documents such as Atom feeds. Delta lets you capture the notion of “change over time” or “work done” to content on the Web.”
Good times for a change
See, the luck I’ve had
Can make a good man
Turn bad
— The Smiths Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
Big Red Button, and what happens when you hit it.
The Best Open Source CL Implementation, selected by Bill Clementson. It’s SBCL, of course.
The Rule Markup Initiative has taken steps towards defining a shared Rule Markup Language (RuleML), permitting both forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML for deduction, rewriting, and further inferential-transformational tasks.
Why are women’s brains smaller than men’s?, I always knew that’s because it looks more cute. ;-)
E Pluribus Anum, chuckle.
“Stretch” Languages, or, 28 years of programming, by Oliver Steele. I guess I should make such a diagram too, that would be interesting. “The point of a stretch language is to teach me new ways to think about programming.”
XSLT vs. XQuery, “When would I use each language in preference to the other?”
Refactoring Everything, Day 3, chromatic digs into the code.
myoldmac.net, System 7 emulation in Flash.
C-Store, a Column-Oriented DBMS. Written at MIT and BSD licensed.
Converting tpic \special’s into \pdfliteral’s by awk, by Hartmut Henkel.
Podcasts are huge; it’s just the audience that’s tiny, “Who’s listening to podcasts? Apparently no one.”
They trade forty years in the factory
For some dry, hot desert air
And they feel like they’re supposed to be someplace
But they don’t know where
— Dan Bern, Desert Wind
EDelta is a fast XDelta-style binary differ, but optimized for executables which have a very systematic way of changing between versions.
Hurling Taj Mahals into the Sky, comparing the Taj Mahal to various rockets.
The Fib is a type of poem where each line has as much syllables as the corresponding Fibonacci number.
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