Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03feb2008
Waiting for It, by Rachel Donadio. “Technology may be speeding up the news cycle, but in publishing, things actually seem to be slowing down.”
Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces, “A survey of existing native interfaces for several languages and some suggestions”, by Reini Urban.
You’re still breathing but you don’t know why
Life’s a bit and sometimes you die
You’re still breathing but you just can’t tell
Don’t hold your breath
But the pretty things are going to hell
— David Bowie, The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
An approach to call-by-name delimited continuations (PDF), POPL 2008 slides by Hugo Herbelin and Silvia Ghilezan.
Swing and Shadow by Gumdesign, cool wine glasses.
The History of Visual Communication, “This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.”
Prolog is a great language for writing append; after that it’s all downhill. — Paul Graham, Take the Arch Challenge
Spurius Carvilius Ruga was a freedman living in Rome who allegedly invented the letter G. Cool.
For such an innocent face
Such an innocent face
You got an innocent
Lalalalala
You’re an innocent
— Veruca Salt, Innocent
Velena is a freeware expert system crafted for playing connect four. It’s based on eight mathematical rules, each proven to be correct. This implies that also the conclusions made by Velena are correct. In this way it has been possible to show that connect four is a first player win, and Velena is always able to win if she plays first.
Using Git within a project (forking around), Dr Nic explains.
Purely functional recursive types in Haskell and Python, “It’s interesting that theory about static types has something to say about programming in a dynamically typed programming language.”