Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01nov2006
Unsmashing pumpkins, neato.
National Novel Writing Month 2006, grab your pens and get started!
Breaking News: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit, let’s hope that won’t fuck it up. Aftermath by Aaron Swartz (must read!).
Seaside to Calm the Continuations, _why reasons: “I guess sometimes when you drink from the Holy Grail too much, it begs to be put back up on display in the china closet.” Makes my day.
Protest ist, wenn ich sage das oder das paßt mir nicht. Widerstand ist, wenn ich dafür sorge, daß das, was mir nicht paßt, nicht länger geschieht. — Ulrike Meinhof
FastRI: faster RI docs for Ruby, across machines – one Ring to find them (via DRb + Rinda), I think RI was fast back when it ran on some kind of DBM.
JITing slides, personally, I’m really trying to avoid the “omg-I-have-no-slides-must-JIT mode” for Euruko…
A stackless runtime environment for a Pi-calculus, by Frédéric Peschanski and Samuel Hym. Now that sounds useful!
A Concurrent Calculus with Atomic Transactions, by Acciai, Boreale and Dal Zilio, provides an extension of CCS, which they call ATCCS (“Atomic Transactions CCS”), with support for the primary operations of STM.
Error-full systems emerge from single-strategy maintenance regimes, by Rick Jelliffe. Too bad it’s true.
There’s a monster in my Haskell!, by Andrew Pimlott “Inspired by Felleisen, and in the spirit of Halloween, I offer a new alternative: Meet “monsters”, your computational companions in the land of lazy functional programming.” Cute.
The Django Book, a free book about Django. “The book is due to be published in 2007 by Apress, but in the meantime you can read the “beta” book online.” The Rails people should do it like that too. ;-)
Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
— Bob Dylan, When The Ship Comes In
It’s the content, not the icons, at Signal vs. Noise. Hmm, I’ve been saying that last week.