Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
30jan2008
Arc has been released! “Arc is designed above all for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that’s what we’ve aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.” pg’s own commentary.
The Incompatible Food Triad, by George W. Hart. “Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods “going together”) but every pair of them does go together?”
Und nun, meine Herren, vorwärts mit Gott! — Paul von Hindenburg, heute vor 75 Jahren
You have nothing better to do with your life now
Your life now. Hey!
You have nothing better to say for yourself, yourself, yourself
You have nothing better to say for yourself, yourself, yourself
— Agent Sparks, Make Up Friend
Purely top-down software rebuilding (PDF), by Alan Grosskurth. Presents an implementation of djb’s redo in sh. Interesting concepts and brilliant simplicity.
Kart (key alteration radix tree) is an associative array data structure based on Patricia trees. The main advantage of a kart is to expand the applicability of Patricia trees to more kinds of key sets. Karts retain the ordering, running time, and storage space characteristics of Patricia trees.
tweetmeme, like techmeme for twitter.
A Theory of Hygienic Macros (PDF), by David Herman and Mitchell Wand.
Caboose Conf 2008, “In May, if you don’t want to cough up almost a thousand dollars to go learn things you already know, but want to come to Portland to network with skilled Rails coders from all over the world, instead of hanging out in the lobby at the Lloyd Center like I did last year, come to Caboose Conf.” Great idea, I hope there will be a Caboose Conf Europe as well.
SSD write endurance myths, “To put that into perspective let’s picture the worst case scenario of 100,000 write/erase cycles and an average jpeg at 60KB. Using this logic you would need to download 19,641,600 LOLCats each day for a year straight before exhausting the SSD. And here’s where the tricky part comes in. It turns out there are only 940 million lolcats total on the Internet with an average of 260,000 new lolcats per week (taking into account the caturday spike).”
When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
— Bob Dylan, With God On Our Side
The Census Bureau’s data file, “Data files should contain data. Not metadata. Not explanations. Not little essays. And not footnotes. Just the data.” Ouch.
Free the Music, WJW: “As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.”
Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in China, made my day.
typotransformat, a visualization of recurring words.
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