Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11feb2007
Astronomers Report Unprecedented Double Helix Nebula Near Center of the Milky Way, beautiful.
The Definitive ANTLR Reference, beta-book by Terence Parr. That was much needed, and the author sure knows his child.
You ask what is the quality of life?
Seeking to justify the part you play
And hide, fearing it incomplete, to try
To make it any more or less than short and sweet
— David Gilmour, Short and Sweet
The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff, “Writing takes a lot of focus – here are a few authors who got rid of all sorts of distractions, including their clothes, while writing.” WJW.
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’, by John Gruber. A careful analysis.
The Missing Link: Dynamic Components for ML, by Andreas Rossberg. “Despite its powerful module system, ML has not yet evolved for the modern world of dynamic and open modular programming, to which more primitive languages have adapted better so far. We present the design and semantics of a simple yet expressive first-class component system for ML.”
Dee, a relational algebra system for Python.
Map fusion: Making Haskell 225% faster, yay for pure languages.
Top 10 Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian, by Heidi Lore. Point #1 is good, the rest is the usual stuff.
She’s a blue light, yes it cannot be denied
She will give you back your pride
She squeezes, she freezes, she does what she pleases
But she says she thinks of others, all the time
— David Gilmour, Blue Light
The Next Big Language, by Steve Yegge. I’m not gonna use it.
Kugelmugel ist ein im Wiener Prater auf einem kleinen Grundstück mit Stacheldraht umzäuntes Kugelhaus von 8 Meter Durchmesser, das von dem Künstler Edwin Lipburger errichtet wurde.