Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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19nov2007

JazzScheme is a programming language based on Scheme. Getting ported to use Gambit now. Includes an IDE and an object system.

NeoVictorian Computing: a personal computing revival, OOPSLA 2007 slides and explanation by Mark Bernstein.

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IMG_1770 by Franco Cozzo

If today was not an endless highway,
If tonight was not a crooked trail,
If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time,
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.
— Bob Dylan, Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Does perfect code exist? (Abstractions, Part 1).

An ABC of Category Theory, “This course is aimed at potential users of categorical ideas rather than aspiring category theorists.”

#ruby-lang
15:51 <chris2> i just see corundum around, and cmeme2 for logging
15:51 <manveru> not even a chanserv :(
15:51 <chris2> why do you want a chanserv?
15:52 <manveru> it makes me feel like i know at least one guy in the channel

A “Psychological” Optical Illusion, “The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception.” Pretty awesome.

World Toilet Day has been declared to be on the 19th of November each year. “The purpose of having this day is to have people in all countries to take action, increase awareness of toilet user’s right to a better toilet environment, and to demand for it from toilet owners. As such, it is also the toilet user’s duty to contribute towards its also the toilet user’s duty to contribute towards its maintenance, cleanliness and hygiene.”

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CIMG7972-7974 by philflieger

a burfday on da beach, danah boyd knows how to celebrate her 30th birthday…

People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
— Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed

#ruby-lang
11:30 <wackimonki> does anyone know how to find a repeated element in an array?
11:41 <chris2> come on, it's easy to write manually
11:43 <chris2> i like this variant: a.find_all { |e| a.index(e) != a.rindex(e) }

Cool, but Stupid, Things I’ve Done, by Rick DeNatale.

Squaring Zooko’s triangle, by Paul Crowley. “In this essay I propose a kind of name which is entirely decentralized, reasonably secure, and at least somewhat memorable.”