Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01may2006
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, by Paul Graham.
Why Paul Graham won’t release Arc, pretty wild speculation by David Hoelscher.
OpenBSD 3.9 is released.
Runtime Tags Aren’t Necessary, by Andrew W. Appel. “This paper shows how the use of tag bits, record descriptor words, explicit type parameters, and the like can be avoided in languages (like ML) with static polymorphic typechecking.”
Introduction to the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, by Chris Lattner. “It is aimed at a GCC-centric audience, specifically to follow up a presentation on the GCC Link-Time-Optimization proposal at the 2006 Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo (ICE).”
I live tomorrow,
you I’ll not follow
As you wallow
in a sea of sorrow
— Alice In Chains, Sea Of Sorrow
jQuery is a new type of Javascript library. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write Javascript. Sounds interesting.
Links: Web Programming Without Tiers, ICFP 2006 paper by Ezra Cooper, Sam Lindley, Philip Wadler and Jeremy Yallop.
Matchbox Pinhole, if I had a analog film laying around…
Hazakura is search-based MUA written in Haskell.
Changing filename encodings in a tarball, and a small refactoring tale, Mauricio hacks.
Cocoa Magic for Gruff Graphs, nifty nifty.
Ubasuteyama is a sad story of poor village folk forced to take their parents up into the mountains and abandon them there in accordance with village regulations at a time of famine.
When there is nothing left to burn
You have to set yourself on fire
— Stars, Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Self-immolation is the act of setting oneself on fire, most often in political protest. It is considered to be among the most powerful symbolic acts of sacrifice.
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