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Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop: a POPL Workshop
If you're interested in programming languages, and especially if you might want to make a career in programming languages research, you may wish to attend PLMW - the POPL programming languages mentoring workshop.
We've got a whole bunch of great speakers, who will be talking about cool research, and about how to make it in the research community ( Read more... ) -
Election Geekery
I've been offline for a bit while I panic about thesis stuff - but an election's happening here in the UK, so I thought I'd take a moment to link to a couple of handy tools:
Vote For Policies
Who should you vote for?Both of these sites anonymise the policies of our major parties, to allow you to see how well your tribal instincts match up with ( Read more... ) -
Facebook worm.
I just got hit by a facebook app worm ( Read more... ) -
Random 11pm thought: Privacy through insecurity.
If you haven't considered the potential for (and potential dangers of) total lack of privacy in the information age, go watch this before reading the rest of this post ( Read more... ) -
Random 6am Thought
If the economy is like an ecosystem; then perhaps pushing your company into an aggressive monopoly is kinda like being such a dominant species that you can wipe out other species with impunity, and significantly alter planetary ecosystem. Good medium term strategy, potentially quite bad long term strategy ( Read more... ) -
Temporary email addresses
ISPs are now keeping records of everyone you email (if you live in the EU)Not the contents of the mail yet - so perhaps it's not quite time to break out the PGP ubiquitously (and it's not a lot of use if you only use it for suspicious things, so it's pretty well got to be all or nothing). But what if you wanted to make your email flist just a ( Read more... ) -
Functional Reactive (web) Programming
I just saw a talk by Shriram Krishnamurthi.
He showed us something live - essentially the thing I'm doing in this sub-one-minute video.
From some of the questions asked afterwards, I gather that the concept may not be a new one, but I don't care - I'd not seen it before, and the idea blew me away.
In the video, I show the scheme setup. The good ( Read more... ) -
False Positives and Security.
Bruce Schneier continues to document the increasingly ridiculous war on the unexpected:
Offshore oil rig evacuated after someone dreamed of a bomb.
Sheridan College under lock-down because someone notices a tripod.
Man arrested for posession of an MP3 player.
While reading, I found myself thinking about the fire service. I remember being taught ( Read more... ) -
Stop. Moshertime.
Run the following script in the same directory as a copy of "Killing in the name of" by Rage Against The Machine.
( ragetime.pl )