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always bet on text
I figured I should just post this somewhere so I can make future reference to how I feel about the matter, anytime someone asks me about such-and-such video, 3D, game or "dynamic" multimedia system. Don't get me wrong, I like me some illustrations, photos, movies and music ( Read more... ) -
use of words
"You yourself, Gordon Ivon, may through fortune regard yourself as a free agent. Yet you are a slave of history. You are gathering facts, a profession which superseded hunting, a dusty parody of it, sans blood. The search for knowledge is too highly lauded ( Read more... ) -
on false equivalences
The term oppression is pretty heavily loaded and wikipedia's quality standards are certainly not met by the article at that link. But I want to write a bit about oppression ( Read more... ) -
technicalities: interactive scientific computing #2 of 2, goldilocks languages
In my previous post I discussed Ousterhout's Dichotomy at some length and suggested that it was ubiquitous in computing. In this post I will discuss some famililes of language that reject Outsterhout's Dichotomy, their history, and a new language called Julia ( Read more... ) -
Swift
Today Apple introduced a new language called Swift, along with some pretty hot livecoding environment which, while neat, is an area I'm not very expert in so I'm going to ignore. I am certain the livecoding nerds will discuss it elsewhere.
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quality online journalism, editing and curation is worth more than print
I'm not sure this hasn't been written better before by brighter minds than me, and I recognize that it's a contentious statement. However, in light of a recent post by mathowie about the current plight of metafilter, I thought I would reiterate (or perhaps initially state) my opinion on the matter:
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technicalities: interactive scientific computing #1 of 2, pythonic parts
This is the first half of a two-part blog post that is motivated-by and mostly "about" two software ecosystems I've been poking around at recently. The first (and subject of this post) is I'll roughly call "interactive scientific Python", which includes primarily SciPy/SymPy/NumPy, IPython, and Sage; the second (subject of next post) is a new ( Read more... ) -
technicalities: specs (Lisp, ML, ALGOL, Ada, JS2, ES4, RnRS, Redex, POPLmark, Rust, K, Comp/JSCert)
According to the History of Programming Languages website (currently offline) there have been somewhere around 8500 programming languages developed since the Autocodes of the early 50s. The internet archive has scraped HOPL's taxonomy at least as well as a few references and at least the primary year indexes (the year of my birth, for exampleIt's ( Read more... ) -
Technicalities: maude
As part of "more public blogging" resolution, I'm thinking I'll return to occasional technical notes. This will be the first in a series of "things I've been looking at in the past few years", during the general haitus I've taken from writing technically ( Read more... )