Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23oct2006
Web 2.0 Thinking Game, so much cynism. I love it!
Denver Accord, the future of Ruby, version control wise.
hitlerizer 1.0, ainfach genäal!
Programmer’s rant: what should and should not be added to C/C++ , actually very good points.
I remember how we used to be
Without the world upon our TV
Well let it lie or you can take it back
Wrap your life around evil’s trap
— The Kooks, See the World
Using functional programming to reduce the pain of parallel-execution programming (with threads, forks, or name your poison), would be far easier in Pugs… ;-)
Google Adjusts Hiring Process As Needs Grow, “In addition to making the experience less grueling for would-be employees, it hopes to do a better job of offering the right jobs to the right people as it continues its rapid expansion.”
This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 240) by John Baez contain a lot about lambda calculus and Closed Cartesian Categories this time, enjoy.
Who needs a calculator? Multiplying with Your Fingers, applied binary arithmetics.
Hex Headquarters promotes creative thought about one of our most basic paradigms: the way we represent numbers. Hexadecimal is one such system that has gained currency in the technical fields and should be a part of basic education in the information age.
Tinfoil Hat Linux is a small Linux distribution for paranoid people.
An overnight in sleep-pipes, doesn’t look too bad.
North, great shot of an aurora borealis.
Then you smiled, he got wild
You didn’t understand that there’s money to be made
Beauty is a card that must get played
By organisation
— The Kooks, Ooh La
The Magic of Goals: Focused Projects and Better Requirements, by Gojko Adzic. “Focusing on goals turned out to be a very effective approach to setting the stage for software development.”
Epigram is a dependently typed programming language and an interactive programming environment. Epigram has got a type system which is strong enough to express the behaviour of programs, the type checker then guarantees that the program is well behaved.
Clorox: Shared memory abstraction for AJAX applications, “Caching, Prefetching, No more RPCs…”.
13oct2006
How to develop software like commanding a tank, by Gojko Adzic. “If communicating goals and anti-goals helped to coordinate tank platoon leaders in low-visibility desert conditions, it should also help programmers whose biggest optical obstacle is an occasional lack of caffeine in the veins.”
The Agility of Lightweight Formal Methods, by Coryoth.
650,000 dead and counting, by shinshin. That’s “249 times the number of people killed in the World Trade Center in the attacks of September 11th, 2006”…
“#define private public”, a neat Google Code Search… ouch.
There ain’t no guarantee about tomorrow morning
And if the sun will ever rage in all its light
I stand in another man’s clothes tonight
I stand in another man’s clothes
— Dan Bern, Another Man’s Clothes
Cirrus SR20 crash in Manhattan, Philip Greenspun writes: “As it happens, I was at the exact same spot yesterday, en route to the Downtown/Wall Street heliport in a Robinson R44. I have flown my own Cirrus SR20 all the way to the Arctic Ocean and then southwest to Alaska. Friends have thus been asking me to speculate on how this accident might have occurred.”
Merlin’s top 5 super-obvious, “no-duh” ways to immediately improve your life, useful!
Die Geschichte des deutschen Radios, sehr interessant.
The Transgondwanan Supermountain, “Two articles have appeared in the last ten days or so about the impact of landscape on animal evolution.”
Logic Functors: A Toolbox of Components for Building Customized and Embeddable Logics, by Sébastien Ferré and Olivier Ridoux. Sounds pretty awesome.
Manfred Smacks Open a Camping Piñata, featuring a screencast.
5.gets BradPauly, no interviews on RedHanded for a long time…
Flapjax is a functional reactive compiler and Javascript library for creating interactive web GUIs, created by Brown PLT. Wow.
Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications, by Stas Bekman. “As you can see, async IO flow requires writing lots of small functions that all call each other as callbacks.”
Moscow ML is a light-weight implementation of Standard ML (SML), a strict functional language widely used in teaching and research.
World’s worst use of a jpeg, ewwwwww.
In jeder Stadt und in jedem Land,
schreibt die Parole an jede Wand.
Schreibt die Parole an jede Wand.
Keine Macht für Niemand!
Keine Macht für Niemand!
— Ton Steine Scherben, Keine Macht für niemand
What to do when Your Vehicle Check Engine Light Turns On and the Warranty has Expired, by Steve Olson. “[I]t’s something you can do in five minutes that may save you thousands of dollars.”
Why millions of home alarm systems are useless…, fatal flaws.
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