Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08jun2007
Trickles: A Stateless Network Stack for Improved Scalability, Resilience and Flexibility by Alan Shieh, Andrew C. Myers, and Emin Gun Sirer. This sounds really awesome.
JoCaml is Objective Caml plus the join calculus, that is, OCaml extended for concurrent and distributed programming. Completely rewritten.
The blind leading the blind, PHP code as WTF.
Wbox aims to help you having fun while testing HTTP related stuff. Looks like a highly useful tool.
Egyptian Ratscrew is an unusual, extremely fast-paced game vaguely reminiscent of slapjack, spit, speed, stress, nurse, etc. for two or more players. It can get pretty hot. Anyone can play, but to be good requires quick thinking, fast reflexes, and tough hands.
Banging on the table with an old tin cup
Sing I’ll never kiss a Gun Street girl again
Never kiss a Gun Street girl again
I’ll never kiss a Gun Street girl again
— Tom Waits, Gun Street Girl
The Last Calligraphers, “The newspaper employees three full-time calligraphers who painstakingly handwrite and manually typeset the paper the same way they have since 1927.” Awesome.
The CIA’s favorite form of torture, “Sensory deprivation, as CIA research and other agency interrogation materials demonstrate, is a remarkably simple concept. It can be inflicted by immobilizing individuals in small, soundproof rooms and fitting them with blacked-out goggles and earmuffs.”
Deputy is a C compiler that is capable of preventing common C programming errors, including out-of-bounds memory accesses as well as many other common type-safety errors. It is designed to work on real-world code, up to and including the Linux kernel itself.
Rails Testing: Not Just for the Paranoid, by Gregory Brown. Good article about a thing I never really got around doing.
Better Code Through Destruction, by Igor Gariev. Perl5 really can’t detect circular references? Heck, even the Python guys manage that.
1A Zaun, Standort Heiligendamm, nur an Selbstabholer, WJW.
Multicore Hardware and the Future of Ruby, by David Fayram. “It isn’t surprising that many Ruby libraries prefer to scale at the process level. The argument for process-level concurrency is a good one: It’s dead simple.”
So hang down your head for sorrow, hang down your head for me
Hang down your head, hang down your head, hang down your head Marie
— Tom Waits, Hang Down Your Head
Scala impressed Patrick Logan more than he thought a priori.
One first senses a disquieting buzzing sound, “The gallery it’s displayed in looks a bit like an empty room. You do see a series of copper plates hanging above you in space, and there’s a triangle, attached to wires, hovering alone in the center, like a Modernist chandelier.”
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