Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10jun2008
Bell Labs and CSP Threads, by Russ Cox. “Instead, we are interested in concurrent programming because it provides a natural abstraction that can make some programs much simpler.”
Twice as Fast, Half the Price, John Gruber on the iPhone 3G.
Undoubtedly, someone can learn OOP from reading code – after all Alan Kay (partly) learned OO by deciphering an 80 page Simula program thinking it was Algol. — Bjarne Stroustrup, Posting to comp.lang.c++
Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darkness, that’s roughly one per day per person. Enjoy!
Sounding Rooms, “For some reason, when our upstairs neighbors came home tonight, their footsteps sounded different – as if someone had come up a staircase I didn’t know about, only to begin speaking inside a room I’d never known was there, located somehow behind the kitchen wall – which got me thinking.”
The Size of Africa, damn big.
Take it easy
I wish I could take it easy
Take it easy
Everything is under control
— Plastiscines, Under Control
STLFilt simplifies and/or reformats long-winded C++ error and warning messages, with a focus on STL-related diagnostics. The result renders many of even the most cryptic diagnostics comprehensible.