Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08feb2007
R U ‘N Love w/Dynamic Languages?, “Building your own dynamic language is fun and easy!” For people near Stanford.
GMail moved to public beta from private beta in some countries, by Hari K. Gottipati. WJW.
Compiling Embedded ML, “For my master’s thesis I implemented a compiler for Embedded ML, a functional language with a powerful type system that guarantees termination, and gives an upper bound of memory requirements.” Yum!
Don’t Mess With the Brain, by Abanti. “Being awake for brain sugery is interesting but not fun. Actually I’d describe it as terrifing.”
Deep Data: Locations, Maps, and Charts, DabbleDb got first-class location types and simple charts. Bye, bye, Excel?
My overall view of Dave Winer is that he has brilliant ideas ahead of their time and then does such poor implementation that other people must send years cleaning up the mess created by the early adopters on the basis of his half-written, barely-thought-out specifications. — Paul Prescod (thanks!)
Shaun Inman did a really great redesign of his site. Wonderfully elegant.
Inverted Drops #001, a proof-of-concept “geocomic” by me. Comments are welcome!
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. Nifty.
Misguided: The Road Not To Be Travelled, Patrick Logan contra STM.
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby
Ahaa-ahaa-aaaa
Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya
Ahaa ahaa aaaaa
Now what ya doing, doing to me
— Kaiser Chiefs, Ruby
What’s Wrong with the For Loop, but folds can be curried, and for-loops cannot.
1 liter Bottled Water uses 26 Liters Water + 1 Kg Fossil Fuel + 1 Pound CO_2, evil.