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23jun2008
Updates on Drew Yao’s Terrible Ruby Vulnerabilities, heh.
New default license: 2-clause BSD license, “Following on from a vote amongst the membership of the NetBSD Foundation, and in recognition of the changing face of software licensing, the Foundation has changed its recommended license to be a 2 clause BSD license.” And there was much rejoicing.
tcerl, a port of tokyocabinet to erlang, and tokyocabinet based erlang term store. Neat.
Give me an answer
Give me a sign
I’ve been climbing up this ladder
I’ve been wasting my time
— Radiohead, Up On The Ladder
yahoorezinr.com, WJW.
Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge, the making of phrases.
If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don’t bother. Nowadays the idea of giving a name to every file on your computer is ridiculous. — David Gelernter, The Second Coming – A Manifesto
The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange “broadcast” RSS icon that indicates there is an RSS feed available. Great idea!
Kilim is a message-passing framework for Java that provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads.
Computation and the Periodic Table, talk by John Baez. “By now there is an extensive network of interlocking analogies between physics, topology, logic and computer science, which can be seen most easily by comparing the roles that symmetric monoidal closed categories play in each subject.”
Pure Type Systems type checker in Prolog, plain wonderful.
Facon is a mocking library in the spirit of the Bacon spec library. Small, compact, and works with Bacon.
JSqueak, Smalltalk interpreter written in Java by Dan Ingalls.
Topologie von Flächen XIX, “Eine mathematische Spielerei: was passiert, wenn man den Drehimpuls der Erde stetig erhöht?” Sehr lustig. :-)
The Next Euruko will be held in Barcelona in the first quarter of 2009.
Reddit goes open source, but not DSFG free software.
Your ears are burning
Denial, denial
Your ears should be burning
Denial, denial
— Radiohead, House Of Cards
Insane Architecture, Ian Lance Taylor: “My personal observation is that the towns of Silicon Valley make me feel insane. It seems therefore plausible that Silicon Valley is in some way associated with Cthulhu.”
Babelmark is a testbed for side-by-side comparaisons of the output of various Markdown implementations.
Moving Past BlueCloth, Ryan Tomayko provides two new libraries for Ruby.
Minimal, James Bennett on his IMO great minimalist redesign.
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