Wed, 28 Jul 2010

Oracle updates Java. Eclipse breaks. Who's to blame?

Writes the wise Zancarius, "Let's just blame everyone and get it over with."

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Tue, 27 Jul 2010

Unpublished proprietary emptiness

For a good time, check out the unpublished proprietary source code of AT&T, as shipped by Sun in Solaris.

It does nothing, successfully.

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009

Behind glass

"To an engineer of the day, using valuable computer time to simply enter text in an interactive text editor was unthinkable. It was the hackers who understood that interacting with the computer, rather than treating it as a hands-off behind-glass computation resource, was the way of the future."

-- "The Culture of the Programmer".

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Thu, 11 Dec 2008

SVG and the future

clearly SVG is the wave of the future, but current h/w is the wave of the past.

-- paul on the sugar-devel list.

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008

Starkiller: A static compiler for Python

The real benefit of flow-insensitivity is freedom from having to care about time.

-- Starkiller, 2004.

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Sun, 05 Oct 2008

Analog literals

A solution to a common problem:

// Consider:

 unsigned int a = 4;

// Have you ever felt that integer literals like "4" don't convey the true size of the value they denote? If so, use an analog integer literal instead:

 unsigned int b = I---------I;

 assert( a == b );

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008

For Timo art with me

Chris Wakelin asks Timo of Dovecot to change his English usage:

I've been meaning to tell you that should be "Yeah" for an informal version of "Yes", otherwise it's a very archaic form of "Yes" or "Indeed" as in "Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death"!

Stewart Dean points out: