Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15dec2007
A Dialogue on Infinity between a mathematician and a philosopher. A blog by Alexandre Borovik and David Corfield.
Pig Toy Gets Completely Squashed, Raises Like Terminator T1000, want have.
darcs-git.py, a darcs-like interface for git with ~20 commands.
Shiny tooth talons
coiled for grabbing a stranger happening by
And the day went home early
and the sun sank down into the muck of a deep dead sky
— Tom Waits, Don’t Go Into That Barn
Human-Order Sorting at LispCast.
In Ruby: sort_by { |item| item.to_s.split(/(\d+)/).map { |e| [e.to_i, e] } }
How Experts Fail: The Patterns and Situations in Which Experts Are Less Intelligent Than Non-Experts is a book-in-progress being written in a Wiki by Thomas David Kehoe.
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant is a satirical musical about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard.
Amazon SimpleDB and CouchDB compared, I still think we could and should make scalable relational databases (which does not imply SQL or a static schema!) that would serve some tasks better than what we have there.
You can never hold back spring
Even though you’ve lost your way
The world keeps dreaming of spring
— Tom Waits, You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning (PDF), by Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel R. Madden, and Kate Hollenbach. Column stores for RDF sound like a good idea.
Is distributed source control always the right answer?, by Jeremy Jones. “I just finished reading this piece of a conversation with Linus Torvalds regarding Git, and I remain unconvinced that going distributed would be the best thing for us. And I’m guessing that maybe most small teams of “closed” development probably don’t need a distributed source control system, either.”
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