Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26jul2006
DaylightMap.com, see the world at night.
OpenDarwin Shutting Down, sad: “The original notions of developing the Mac OS X and Darwin sources has not panned out. […] Administering a system to host other people’s projects is not what the remaining OpenDarwin contributors had signed up for and have been doing this thankless task far longer than they expected. It is time for OpenDarwin to go dark.”
git: a stupid content tracker, slides by Junio C Hamano. (Annotated slides are at the end, you probably want to read them first.)
The night before the “Jifty RHOX” talk, Audrey is making slides like crazy.
Komm hol das Lasso raus, wir spielen Cowboy und Indianer!
Wir reiten um die Wette, ohne Rast und ohne Ziel;
hast Du mich umzingelt, werd’ ich mich ergeben,
stell’ mich an den Marterpfahl,
komm hol das Lasso raus, so wie beim ersten Mal.
— Olaf Henning, Cowboy & Indianer
A few Lebanese views, by Delirium. “One of the major things to keep in mind is that Lebanon is strongly sectarian, and fought a long civil war; views are still often divided along sectarian lines.”
FOCAL, (abbreviation of FOrmula CALculator), is an interpreted programming language resembling JOSS. FOCAL ran on very low-end PDP-8 systems, even systems lacking mass storage. Multiuser FOCAL systems, running on quite small systems, could drive up to four teletypes and serve four users simultaneously.
Google makes a thousand programs that are all completely different but have the same worthless interface. 37signals makes a thousand programs that are all the same but have a completely different interface. — Daniel Lyons, Balance (not the dork)
Franz Gertsch: Medici, awesome painting.
Comparing XML office document formats #2: what counts, by Rick Jelliffe. Now, if the wordprocessors just stored their content in HTML already…
I feel the need, the need for speed!, Joel Reymont goes OCaml. Sigh. ;-)
Well you got your diamonds
And you got your pretty clothes
A chauffeur drives your car
You let everybody know
Don’t play with me
You’re playin’ with fire
— Dead Moon, Play With Fire
The ICFP Programming Contest 2006: a VM that challenges YARV as far as the fun factor goes, I didn’t have enough time to really dig into it, but Mauricio gave it a try. Really awesome.
Niob ist ein grau glänzendes, duktiles Schwermetall.
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