Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12feb2006
Out of Eden: possible implementation architecture, can we have a completely Java-free, easy to install implementation of that “stack”, please?
The Misp Chronicles IX: fn, William Taysom on lambdas in his minimal Lisp.
Localhost is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser. This file system is maintained in a fully decentralized way by all of the computers running Localhost. The program uses BitTorrent technology, and P2P Distributed Hashtable technology called Kademlia.
I find it very, very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes, I’ll admit that I’m a fool for you
Because you’re mine, I walk the line
— Johnny Cash, I Walk The Line
Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances, or at least of what Chris Shiflett thinks sucks. (I disagree with just about everything, except VI, VIII and IX.)
Enron Email Dataset, for all your data-mining needs.
Ghosts In The Hall, by free2delude. “Tuberculosis, also called the “white plague” or “consumption” affected thousands of Canadians every year until 1944.”
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Deleting Norton Anti-Virus, lovely.
I was 0wn3d on a Mac, this made me ROTFL, seriously.
Coders Bare Invasion Death Count, “The citizens of East Timor who perished during Indonesia’s brutal 24-year occupation of their tiny island nation might have died unaccounted for – as many civilians do in military conflicts around the world. But a group of determined programmers and statisticians refused to let that happen.”
The Mysteries of X-GOOGLE-TOKEN and why it matters, interesting uses.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.
Zooko’s Triangle: An Introduction to Petname Systems, at Lispmeister’s.
Little Languages is a blog in which the authors cook up disposable little languages for the amusement of all. So far mostly contains Python hacks.
The future urban-modular, more cool houses at BLDG BLOG.
Gravestmor is a very good, tumbly-style, weblog about design and other beautiful things.
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden
— Bob Dylan, Gates Of Eden
Functional MetaPost is a Haskell frontend to the MetaPost language by John Hobby. Nice stuff to hack on.
Constructing Red-Black Trees by Ralf Hinze. “This paper explores the structure of red-black trees by solving an apparently simple problem: given an ascending sequence of elements, construct, in linear time, a red-black tree that contains the elements in symmetric order.” (Note this was written in 1999.)
Gmres And Integral Operators by C. T. Kelley And Z. Q. Xue. “In this paper we show how the properties of integral operators and their approximations are reflected in the performance of the GMRES iteration and how these properties can be used to smooth the GMRES iterates, thereby strengthening the norm in which convergence takes place.”