Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Brian Hayes' latest article for American Scientist, "The Semi-Colon Wars", is a readable little survey of pointless holy wars in computing: semi-colons vs. parentheses, big-endian vs. little-endian, and more besides. It's fun, and his programming language genealogy chart is very pretty.
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
I found this color-based shopping aide today; I guess I kind of know in theory how it works, but I have no idea where I'd start if I had to reproduce it...
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Warning: this is not for people who already have a weak grasp of reality ;-)
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
I bought an Acer Aspire 3620 three and a half weeks ago, primarily because it was light (under four pounds) and cheap (nine hundred dollars). It's been nothing but trouble; most recently, I've been wrestling with the fact that when it puts itself to sleep, there's no way to wake ...
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
I've been excited by Windows PowerShell (formerly Monad) ever since I first heard about it, as it promises to bring the world's first great component architecture --- the Unix shell --- into the 21st Century. There's no doubt Microsoft is going to push it: its official home page and team ...
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
This year's Summer of Code recipients were announced last week. I wanted to browse the list off-line, but doing it on the SoC site would have meant clicking through 102 separate pages (one per sponsoring organization). No problem: Python's urllib lets me download pages as easily as I'd ...
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