Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17mar2006
Spain reels as young drinkers organise inter-city contest, hooray for decentralisation! And where is the German equivalent?
The Transmuter Programming Language, “or Trans for short, is a new prototype-based dynamic programming language […]. Trans is a biologically inspired language, providing a framework for experimenting with naturally evolving systems of objects over the net, and for exploring new ideas about recombinant software, code morphing, and evolutionary programming in general.” A bit too big, IMO.
Debian considers GNU FDL conditionally free, “The Debian project has decided that documents distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) are considered free with regards to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) if they don’t contain any unmodifiable parts.” Good decision.
The Libre Graphics Meeting will be a melting pot, with free software graphics developers and artists meeting each other, exchanging ideas and tips, and planning the future of free graphics.
Diesel is an advanced object-oriented programming language.
The snow falls down so beautiful and stupid
Fore the black silhouette of Abraham Lincoln trees
The sky is low like a Japanese table.
And the horse’s legs look like four brown shotguns
— Silver Jews, Time Will Break The World
What is Hecl, and why I’m writing it, by David N. Welton. “Have you ever wondered what it’s like to create your own programming language?”
Gee, I feel so safe, luckily, I’m not Edward Allen.
Are there any words that rhyme with orange?, a FAQ at AskOxford.com.
Danny Hillis Has A Company…, why doesn’t John Batelle mention his relationship to the Connection Machine?
Robot Co-op Hardware, an overview by Eric Hodel.
Montezuma Begins, so John Wiseman learns Ruby to port Ferret to Lisp. That tells a lot about Java, in which Lucene is written in…
CCCeBIT 2006 — Agent im Auftrag der GFUCK, Bei der CCCeBIT-Aktion am vergangenen Dienstag auf der Messe CeBIT in Hannover haben Mitglieder des CCC als Agenten der “Gesellschaft für unsinnige Copyright-Klagen” (GFUCK) Besucher über ihr kriminelles Handeln informiert. Fantastisch!
Kipling is an iteration management tool modeled after a physical story board and XP process and draws heavily from the concepts presented in User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn.
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?, by Robert Nozick. Good question.
Creating DSLs with Ruby, by Jim Freeze for Ruby Code & Style.
Send in the clouds. Bring down the rain.
Shut all the blinds, turn out the lights:
I feel insane when you get in my bed.
— Silver Jews, Send In The Clouds
Retrenchment 101: a User’s Guide, by mt. All these bricks on your head, ouch.
Boullée Balloon, WJW. Features a nice idea, too.
Startup Names, by Paul Graham. “In a world where all the obvious names are taken, finding a good name is a test of imagination.”
Y Rumors, Y Combinator news and rumors. Didn’t know Pixoh was one of them too…
Partial Continuations and Factor, by Chris Double. “I’m not sure how useful delimited continuations are in Factor but it gives something to play with to see how they work.”
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