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22oct2005

ThoughtAnarchaia now can be reached at anarchaia.org, so you don’t need to figure how to spell NoykirshenNeukirchen anymore. (We thank the Projectionists for spoiling this. ;-))

Illicit Ohio, abandoned buildings, structures, and more! Some great stuff.

Visions of Science, Winners 2005 are announced.

Extremely Successful Software by Kenneth Dickey. “Some software projects are orders of magnitude more successful than others. Here is the story of one such project and why things went so well.”

Roman statue of Apollo
Roman statue of Apollo by Stuart Yeates
#ruby-lang
18:43 <chris2> tdd damn rocks :P
18:43 <rue> chris2: BDD!
18:44 <rue> chris2: Just rename everything to should and you will transcend to a new level of programming consciousness
#ruby-lang
13:34 <chris2> bob dylan ruby song quiz! "SORROW.man"
14:13 <chris2> solution to the bob dylan ruby quiz: SORROW.man is "Man of constant sorrow", of course.

Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in pure Ruby (with an optional C extension). It is a full port of the Java Lucene Project. Sounds impressive, I gotta try that.

#rpa
12:09 <mfp> ohayo~
12:09 <chris2> hawaii!
12:09 <mfp> :-?
12:10 <chris2> american-state-greetings ;)

After -Ofun: Thoughts on Code Optimization, Part 2 by Geoff Broadwell. “It’s time to talk about why the code might be slow.” A good approach.

besame mucho, Lydia erzählt eine unglaublich dramatische und traurige Geschichte.

Terminology proposal for dubbing Lisp’s syntax “latent syntax”. Very good idea.

The rising sun
The rising sun by lefteris_

TopicTree is a co-operative web document editor written in PHP and MySQL. It allows teams to refine a knowledgebase through interactive rewrites and public comment. Not to be confused with my TopicTree datastructure that empowers n2.

They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot
A pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot
Don’t it always go to show
You never know what you got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
— Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

Imminent Domain over Intellectual Property? by Sid Steward, commenting on O’Reilly’s post on Google Print. I honestly don’t see why one would complain about opt-out.

Projectionist is back, after DNS trouble. Tumble on!