Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13apr2006
Fee, Fi, Fo, FM: Explore the World of FM Synthesis, by Jim Aikin. Yay.
Welcome to Google Calendar, it’s not that impressive IMO.
Talk notes of DHH at Canada On Rails.
Japan’s “Free Press”, Joi Ito wonders: “Instead of translating it as “freedom of the press” in terms of free speech they changed the meaning to freedom of “printing press” sort of press.”
Refactoring Everything, Day 5, by chromatic.
Inside, he was negative.
This place, once more was underground.
So look and connect,
we’re refusing to rust.
Healing has to begin, in the past.
— Chevelle, Don’t Fake This
Query Census Data with RDF, by Joshua Tauberer. I wonder why he doesn’t use a proper RDF query language…
The design of the Inferno virtual machine, by Phil Winterbottom and Rob Pike.
Bstrlib is a string data type library for C and C++. It was written primarily with safety in mind, but also has performance and functionality advantages while remaining totally interoperable with ordinary char * usage.
The Israel Lobby?, by Noam Chomsky. “I’ve received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review of Books, which has been circulating extensively on the internet and has elicited a storm of controversy.”
The Essence of the Iterator Pattern, by Jeremy Gibbons and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira. Includes a very good overview about different iteration techniques.
Your Hidden City: Results, awesome shots.
I’m really sad, “I hope this makes you feel better.”
Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? — Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
CouchDb update, by Damien Katz. It gains something like stored views.
Stowing Yer Libraries Off in the Cut-n-Paste, Why and new^Wrediscovered ways of require.
But she knows
That when he goes
He really goes
And do you think you’ve made
The right decision this time?
— The Smiths, London
Beyond WinFS – Let associations rule! – or: An introduction to Pile for mere mortals, bend your mind a bit.
DocSynch is a collaborative editing system on top of IRC. By transforming single-user editors into multi-user editors, it allows to remotely edit text documents together. Implementations are targeted as extensions to many popular text editors and IDEs. A working version is available for jEdit.
Ward Cunningham Interview about Eclipse, Wiki and Agile Development. MP3, 20 minutes.
Incredible Machines, by Rube Goldberg. You’ll love that video, must-see.
Compilation of Functional Programming Languages using GCC—Tail Calls (PDF), by Andreas Bauer. (The paper is in english, despite the title page.)