Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10may2008
The Blonde Map of Europe, hehe.
ECL = (not only) Embeddable Common Lisp, slides from ECLM 2008 by Juan José García Ripoll.
XTags is a little keyboard-driven Window Manager for X11. “It’s main goal is to get rid of a “real” WM by using it with dvtm on the master tag and put the secondary clients into the other tags.”
Life may be sweeter for this, I don’t know
See how it feels in the end
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you
Soft, strong, sweet and true
— Grateful Dead, Crazy Fingers
Some Chrome For Pjs, _why wrote a small Processing.js IDE for Firefox.
Slides from last night’s BayFP talk, Bryan O’Sullivan talked about “Concurrent and Multicore Haskell”.
The Bla Language, by Wouter van Oortmerssen. “We investigate an (unpure) functional language whose concept of environment is not implicit as in traditional languages, but made available explicitly as a first class value.” The paper also presents lots of other languages with similar ideas.
My Git Workflow, by Oliver Steele. Includes a very nice diagram of data transport.
The summer sun looked down on him,
His mother could but frown on him,
And all the other sound on him,
He had to die, you know he had to die.
— Grateful Dead, That’s It For The Other One
Answers from John McCarthy, “Here is a VERY rough transcript of the informal interview.”
A Formal Investigation of Diff3, by Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal, and Benjamin C. Pierce. “We offer a simple, abstract presentation of the diff3 algorithm and investigate its behavior. Despite abundant anecdotal evidence that people find diff3’s behavior intuitive and predictable in practice, character- izing its good properties turns out to be rather delicate: a number of seemingly natural intuitions are incorrect in general.”
erlocaml, a tight bridge between Erlang and OCaml.
Content negotiation is a waste of bits. — Roy T. Fielding
Apache 3.0 (a tall tale) (PDF, 13.6MB), by Roy Fielding. On the way to Waka! (What is Moccasin?) Required reading.
BlackBerry vs. iPhone, by John Gruber, “wherein neither ‘RIM’ nor ‘Blackberry’ are even mentioned, but rather the stage is set for showing why they might be seriously screwed.”