Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03nov2007
“The Whitespace Thing” for OCaml by Mike Lin is an alternative syntax that uses indentation rather than parenthesization to group expressions, like in Python and Haskell. This is a controversial feature that some people will always love and some people will always hate. Now, OCaml lets you have it both ways.
The Things We Did Last Summer, at whygodwhy. “I feel my friendships more acutely these days. I read things online my friends have written and I think: I am going to miss these people when they’re gone. Gone away from the internet or gone dead.”
The original 43 folders already existed in 1934!
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
— Bob Dylan, My Back Pages
Continually aim just beyond your current range, Terence Tao on how to become a better mathematican.
CSSpool (pronounced “cesspool”) is a validating SAC parser for CSS. The parser calls methods on a document handler depending on what it has found. CSSPool currently only supports CSS 2.1. CSSPool will not yield invalid properties or selectors.
Bacon Salt, everything should taste like bacon…
Roundabout: A Pattern Language for Recursive Programming, by Eugene Wallingford. “Roundabout presents a set of patterns for writing recursive programs.”
Camping isn’t opinionated. It’s strange. — Nathaniel Talbott
D 2.007 brings full closures to D. “I was tired of D being denigrated for not having “real” closures”, Walter Bright says.
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time, cool shots.
NKS Outtakes: Your Foot Can Pay Homage, by _why. “Here’s one that got left out of Nobody Knows Shoes. Doing a bunch of true shoe parallels just felt too broad. But, anyway, the idea is to teach stacks and flows by also teaching how to lace shoes in different styles which resemble each box type.”
Decomposing Typed Lambda Calculus Into a Couple of Categorical Programming Languages, by Masahito Hasegawa.
An Implementation of Charity (PDF), by Min Zeng. Features an introduction to the categorical language Charity and how to implement it.