A Programming Language, PDF scan of the classic book on APL by Kenneth Iverson. Must read.
make-method-lambda considered harmful (PDF), by Pascal Costanza and Charlotte Herzeel. “We discuss a particular dark corner of the CLOS MOP, the meta-level function make-method-lambda, whose purpose is to influence the expansion, and thus the semantics, of defmethod forms.”
Beyond Flash, an addendum, a commented talk on the future of Flash by Jonathan Harris.
Don’t Just Do Something, Talk, by Slavoj Žižek.
If the bailout plan really is a ‘socialist’ measure, it is a very peculiar one: a ‘socialist’ measure whose aim is to help not the poor but the rich, not those who borrow but those who lend.
Riotclitshave: The Blog That’s Worth a Billion Words, Coilhouse has an interview with the author. (Both highly recommended! NSFW.)
Certified Programming with Dependent Types, an in-progress textbook about practical engineering with the Coq proof assistant, by Adam Chlipala.