Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03feb2007
Jim Gray Missing: Help find him by searching satellite imagery, “You will be presented with 5 images. The task is to indicate any satellite images which contain any foreign objects in the water that may resemble Jim’s sailboat or parts of a boat. Jim’s sailboat will show up as a regular object with sharp edges, white or nearly white, about 10 pixels long and 4 pixels wide in the image.” WJW, in a good way.
Animated Engines, by Matt Keveney. I like Wankel’s most.
Now you have your cake
Don’t hesitate
Come on just do it,
Come on just do it
— Bright Eyes, Devil In The Details
delta, an imperative object based calculus, by Christopher Anderson and Sophia Drossopoulou.
CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine. Awesome.
Erlang: parallel-map and parallel-foreach, the joy of side effects…
Software is hard, Salon’s Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two, and the meaning of “Rosenberg’s Law.”
NoDaddy, “Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names”. Guess where anarchaia.org is registered, hrm…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates, by John Gruber. “In Gates’s view, Microsoft came up with these features, Apple copied them, and Apple got them into their shipping product first because Microsoft was spending so much time improving Vista’s security. Uh-huh.”
Windows Vista: a Cautionary Tale, “It took another half an hour and one of our savvy developers to explain that this was a feature, not a bug.” Sick.
Jean Ichbiah passes away, he was the lead designer of Ada.
Meta-Compilation of Language Abstractions, a dissertation by Pinku Surana. “High-level programming languages are currently transformed into efficient low-level code using optimizations that are encoded directly into the compiler. Libraries, which are semantically rich user-level abstractions, are largely ignored by the compiler.”
So I’m drinkin, breathin, writin, singin
Every day I’m on the clock
My mind races with all my longings
But can’t keep up with what I got
— Bright Eyes, Road To Joy
Japanese racism: available now at convenience shops near you, says Joi Ito: “I raise this issue whenever I can and have been labeled a “public enemy” by at least one prominent politician because of this. More people need to speak up spread the word.”
Station Z, “an alternative centre of government” located “in the western counties,” consisting of “bombproof underground citadels.”
PL/I for GCC 0.0.14 has been released. It is a PL/I front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection. Whoo…
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