Having just finished Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" -- a book which in two typical pages produces the words: "squailed," "vadose," "bated" (not in it's normal sense), "terra damnata," "carreta," "monocline," "sleared," "rebozos," "fusil," and "clackdish" -- I have an opinion on this post from O'Reilly on eBook Annotations

The only thing worse …

This is thought-provoking: http://blog.the-scientist.com/2010/03/25/amazing-rats/

Does this imply that rats form a mental model of their opponent's agency?

U. Utah's Matt Might has implemented lambda expressions in C++, so for instance:

    Function2<int,int,int> h(int a, int b) {
     return lambda<int> (x,y) --> a*x + b*y ;
    }

the value of h(3,4)(1,1) is 7.

This thought-provoking post on /dev/why!?! argues that backward compatibility is the root cause of the new iPhone restrictions. The argument is summed up in this quote:

I can think of incidents where Apple reverted OS changes, dumped new APIs, or was forced to committing massive engineering resources to something …

• Remember the Milk is hiring a Scala programmer: http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6700 #
• Worrisome new rule for iPhone / iPad causing discussion on #monotouch -- consensus seems to be that MonoTouch is fine. #
• More scary stuff from new iPhone SDK license: ""Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C …

My assertion that the iPhone license phrase "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine" can only mean zero code generation has been questioned. Here's why I stand by that assessment (and consider the clause beyond the pale).

Let …

MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management, Tiware et al. is worth reading if you are interested in systems-level performance programming. If you work in a managed environment, the briefly described lockless protocol for request-reply queues is worth noting.

This paper describes the use of a "Memory Management Thread …