We received a letter on the SD Times reflector with lines such as "you guys mindlessly regurgitating the marketing hype of the self-congratulatory X committees....X is essentially nothing but a tacit admission...that the previous 4 versions of the spec were nothing but an incredibly expensive series of mistakes …

Ouch.

Can you just transform the scope subsequent to the callcc into a delegate, store it in your Continuation object, and then execute the delegate when it's called? Yes, you need compiler support (since you need to transform callcc() from a keyword or method call into the beginning of a new …

casey mentioned that he wants to investigate augmented reality. Having played with the accelerometers on my M200, I'm leary of the challenge of maintaining orientation over many integrations in a handheld or head-mounted device. On a car, though, you can auto-orient using the GPS and a roadmap and there'd be …

Anyone have experience using specialized input contexts with Java/SWT?

I was thinking about buying the videogame "Star Wars: Empire at War" (not that I have any spare time). Anyway, I decided against it because I was sure, like most games, I'd abandon it after a few hours. And I realized that one reason I do that is because, unlike …

I have a high-deductible PPO medical plan: if I go to a Doctor, I pay the bill directly. It's not unusual for there to be a discount "If you pay at the time of services." Generally, it's around 25%, but sometimes it goes as high as 50%. I interpret this …

Alan Zeichick, in today's SD Times News on Thursday, observes two aspects of Borland's re-org that are troubling: "The first is combining sales and professional services together into one field operations group. The other is folding customer support into research & development."

Zeichick says: "Knowing that the goal of a sales …

Marco Cantu (hi, Marco!) notes my posts on Delphi and makes some very well-taken points, notably:

• Delphi's "class helpers" are equivalent (or at least similar) to C# 3.0's "extension methods," so Delphi itself could be used as an example of my "trend away from structural explicitness";
• There's nothing inherent …

Microsoft was granted patent 7,039,699 today, which on reading the claims appears to be: use a GUID as a database ID, send it back as a cookie, and share usage data between computers within the domain with access to the central database. The entire claim (that's the important …