I don't really follow the discussion about social networking (I guess I'm either a little too old or a little too antisocial to "get" it), but it seems to me that FOAF + OpenID is "ob hack." It seems to me that all that has to happen is that someone writes …
more ...(HOTEL_BLOCK_RESERVATION(HOTEL_ID (IATA_NODE MDW) (PHONE_NUMBER 708 563 0200) (HOTEL_NAME Courtyard by Marriot)) (DAY_BLOCK (DATE_NODE 08 31 07) (FLIGHT_BLOCK (PAIRING_NODE (PAIRI... etc...
"VisitorTests.parsesTheWholeThing(): Lex & Parse: 2765 ms. ReservationCountWalker 282 ms. to find 27327 reservations"
Man, if I could just get …
more ...Bill de h?ra makes an intriguing pitch that programming will be impacted by increasing data volumes more than by the transition to multi-/many-core. His basis is anecdotal -- we don't have the same metaphysical certainty that all of us will be dealing with much-larger datasets as we have the …
more ...Dustin Campbell does a good job explaining the mechanics of currying in C#, although I'm afraid he stops before truly explaining why currying is considered an essential building block of functional programming. He promises to get to that in "the next post" so I won't offer my own take. As …
more ...Antonia Vargas sent me some links to some new "demos" (very small programs from which complex graphics and music emerge):
http://winden.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/a-little-bit-of-assembly-2007/
http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=7&when=2007
Purdue researchers have applied the idea of an ionic breeze to cooling computer chips. This seems like a slam-dunk to me: more flexibility than a fan in terms of structure, the ability to generate the wind without a dead layer near the surface, and thereby more efficient. Presumably much quieter …
more ...In the past 96 hours, I've been exposed to:
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an earthquake,
a hurricane,
a tsunami watch,
annoying frogs (which, while not exactly toads, are still amphibians), and
\<a href="http://arted.osu.edu/160/images/50rnr/hollyband.gif"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annoying crickets (which, while not …
more ...We stayed over \<a href="http://www.plumhall.com/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tom & Lana Plum's house last night, hoping to take advantage of their very dark skies to see the Perseids. Slept on the porch on thin mattresses, beautiful milky way / Sagittarius / Scorpio in the evening hours. Saw …
more ...Jon Skeet wonders:
more ...I've been looking at C# 3 in a fair amount of detail recently, and likewise going over the features of C# 2....I feel sorry for someone wanting to learn C# 3 from scratch. It's becoming quite a big language....It's often been said in the newsgroups …
Harry Pierson wonders "Where Have All the SOA Mashups Gone?" Well, \<a href="http://www.sdtimes.com/printArticle/column-20070515-03.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this one went well. I'm not sure if it counts as a "mashup" in that all the data I was working with was XML and …
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