Rosa Luxemburg was murdered yesterday 90 years ago. There are also German original texts.
Wir fürchten nicht, ja nicht
Den Donner der Parolen
Wir fürchten nicht, ja nicht
Die grüne Polizei
Den Karl Liebknecht, den haben wir verloren
Die Rosa Luxemburg fiel durch Mörderhand
Den Karl Liebknecht, den haben wir verloren
Die Rosa Luxemburg fiel durch Mörderhand
— Bertolt Brecht, Auf, Auf Zum Kampf
Guantanamo is Simple, Mark Bernstein: “Lots of people seem to believe that closing Guantanamo is a complicated proposition. It’s not.”
Revisiting Python, by Bruce Williams. Almost speaks out of my mouth: “Stating what I think about explicit returns would be too explicit for this blog.”
Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers), “Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. Watch the app in action.” WJW.
Jester is a JavaScript implementation of REST, with syntax modeled after ActiveResource.
Gospel Secrets: The Biblical Controversies of Morton Smith, “And after six days Jesus told him what to do and in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of God.”
Chef, a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. Pure Ruby, but nontrivial dependencies.
Apologia, Gilad Bracha says Newspeak is a bit delayed, but will come soon.
Introducing extprot, extensible binary protocols for cross-language communication and long-term serialization. By Mauricio Fernandez. Well designed.
The History of Python, a series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community. By Guido van Rossum.
V7/x86, a port of UNIX Version 7 to the x86 (IA-32) based PC. Whoohoo. And great to see how simple everything used to be.
Nokia to Add LGPL to Qt Licensing Model, yay.
2008 music wrap-up, by jwz. Must read, and listen to. ;)
Implementing VisiCalc, awesome story.
You say ‘ad hoc’ as if it were a bad thing.