Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13feb2007
Stop-Piracy-Plakate kommentiert, sehr schön.
Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.
Reinventing programming, on Alan Kay’s NSF grant. (Read the paper if you haven’t done it yet.)
I found it in the street
At first I did not see
Lying at my feet
a trampled rose
— Tom Waits, Trampled Rose
MountainWest RubyConf will be held March 16th and 17th in Salt Lake City, UT. It is accepting registrations until Feb 23rd. It’s only $50.
The largest drain hole in the world, wow.
Developing Applications With The Web Server Gateway Interface, EuroPython slides by James Gardner.
Re-usable Web Components with Python & Future Python Web Development, slides by Ben Bangert. An introduction to WSGI.
Alpha Males, Open Source, and Women, Dru says: “What about harassment? What about the whole sexuality thing? […] The simple fact is these are issues when you aren’t respected within the group, and they are non-issues when you have gained the group’s respect.”
Gradual Typing for Objects, by Jeremy Siek and Walid Taha. “Gradual typing provides the benefits of both static and dynamic checking in a single language by allowing the programmer to control whether a portion of the program is type checked at compile-time or run-time by adding or removing type annotations on variables.” Likely to be the future of pragmatic languages.
Camping CRUD for the Lazy, by Gregory Brown. Nice.
Mines of medicine, a “contaminated lake” in Montana is actually “turning out to be a source of novel chemicals that could help fight migraines and cancer.”
MicroApps are small REST applications that are designed from the ground up to be integrated with other applications. Usually, they are not directly useful on their own, but must be integrated into other applications (this is what differentiates a MicroApp from a regular REST application). Great idea!
Must be blind love, only kind of love is stone blind love
Blind love, the only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love, oh it’s blind love, stone blind love
It’s your stone blind love
— Tom Waits, Blind Love
Things That Shouldn’t Be in File Names for $1,000 Alex, yes yes yes yes yes! Now do it!
Even better Eratosthenes sieve and lucky numbers, Oleg is amazing. “The algorithm only relies on the successor, predecessor and zero comparison. The predecessor can be easily eliminated. Thus the algorithm can be used with Church and Peano numerals, or members of Elliptic rings, where zero comparison and successor take constant time but other arithmetic operations are more involved.”
Threads suck, a JavaScript implementer says.
DRM in Windows Vista, Bruce Schneier warns. “These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.”
Top 10 Fashion Suggestions for Nerds, I’m nearly following all of them already!