Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08nov2006
Using git bisect to locate bugs in sbcl, by Andreas Fuchs. A step-by-step tutorial.
Scratch! is a new programmable toolkit that enables kids to create their own games, animated stories, and interactive art – and share their creations with one another over the Net.
Cracks in the Foundation, Micah Dubinko takes aim at the legion of annoyances caused by XML namespaces.
Pisa ist wissenschaftlich unseriös, sogar zu blöd zum testen. :-P.
Technische Probleme behindern Petition gegen Wahlcomputer: Chaos Computer Club fordert überfällige Störungsbeseitigung, “Die Server der Betreiber der Öffentlichen Petitionen des Bundestages haben mit technischen Problemen zu kämpfen; bei etwas über 25.000 Unterstützern war offenbar die Datenbank überfordert.” Ersatzpetition.
wolfbagging, yikes! NSFW.
Functional Array Fusion, by Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller. “This paper introduces a new approach to optimising array algorithms in functional languages. We are specifically aiming at an efficient implementation of irregular array algorithms that are hard to implement in conventional array languages such as Fortran.”
Plouffe’s Inverter, “Enter a number and the program will find what the number is made of.”
Sun Set To Move On GPL License For Open-Source Java, saw that pig flying over there?
Programming Theorems, by Des Traynor. Excellent aphorisms!
hal: Haskell in Leipzig, “Ein informales Treffen für Anwender und Interessenten der funktionalen Programmierung, insbesondere Haskell.”
The Lamest Justification for J2EE Complexity, Ever, by chromatic. Indeed! “Software engineering needs to have a certain barrier to entry to keep BOZOs out.”
State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006, by David Sifry. Do I see a decline there?
PickPocket, a Marshal Ransack Hack, tricky, tricky, _why.
Replication insight, by Damien Katz. “What I realized tonight is that by converting the revision lists to a tree, then conflicts are simple tree merges (conflicts in the revisions lists becomes branches in the revision tree) and then by using a simple algorithm for deterministically selecting the winning leaf node, it makes distributed and deterministic conflict resolution and merging possible while still providing single document semantics.” Sounds like an, um, DVCS?
And I ain’t no communist, and I ain’t no capitalist
And I ain’t no socialist
and I sure ain’t no imperialist
And I ain’t no democrat
And I ain’t no republican either
And I only know one party
and its name is freedom
I am a patriot
— Steven Van Zandt, I Am A Patriot
Plans within plans within plans, “the definition and redefinition of abstraction boundaries permeates the market process.”
A new home for Pugs!, their SVN moved too.
The Politics of Enthusiasm, finally BLDG BLOG gets interviewed!
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