Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

13nov2006

Sun Opens Java, WJW. All I can say that I really never expected that to happen, especially not GPL.

Java Is Free, analysis by Tim Bray.

Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.
— Bob Dylan, It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

RMS, recently, on if SUN free Java, “SUN should have made Java free software before, but better late than never.”

A cup of coffee please by masone

GPL V2 wins, and James Gosling is sick. Also, “All of it will follow, eventually. But there’s a lot of work to do, like migrating millions of lines of code from TeamWare to Mercurial.”

und was ich noch…, Lydia ascht doch tatsächlich ihre Kippen in den Leere-Zuckertütchen-Auffangbehälter!

PTB bestätigt Nichteignung – Wahlcomputer grundsätzlich unsicher , “Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) begrüsst die bei der Physikalisch- Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) aufgekommenen grundsätzlichen Zweifel an der Verwendbarkeit von Wahlcomputern. Die Grundlage der Bauartzulassung für den Einsatz der Computer bei Wahlen ist damit als hinfällig zu betrachten.” Wenigstens einmal sind die Physiker nützlich. ;-)

An RX for Ruby Performance, by Tim Bray. “This is an insanely long and gnarly essay about implementing, then optimizing, the low-level bits of a pure-Ruby XML parser.” He actually ported Lark, wow.

Reverse Engineering Machines with the Yoneda Lemma, “I’ve decided that the Yoneda lemma is the hardest trivial thing in mathematics.” I think I agree.

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. — Ecclesiastes 12, 8

coffee with milk by mizuha

Earth Instrument, “Artist Florian Dombois’s Auditory Seismology project plays you the sound of earthquakes.”

Lambda calculus cooked in four ways (PDF), by Lennart Augustson. Tasty!

What is the lethal dose of marijuana?, an utter bullshit question.