Congratulations to my friends (and employers) at BZ Media, which has made the cut for Inc. Magazine's "5,000 list," ranking the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

The working groups of the C++0x committee are working hard to complete a major new standard for C++ (there's a big meeting here in Kona in October). If you're not intimate with C++, you may be surprised that such an important language has not had a standard threading model …

Looks like the only programming tools for Tilera's 64-Core CPU is a C compiler, but the day is fast approaching when we're going to start seeing more and more of these types of tools in the mainstream.

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 …

(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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In the past 96 hours, I've been exposed to:

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meteors,

an earthquake,

a hurricane,

a tsunami watch,

annoying frogs (which, while not exactly toads, are still amphibians), and

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