to use is more
useful to large organizations with lots of money. Free software and
easy-to-use software are useful to a wider range of people.
I believe that societies work best when the widest possible range of
people are well-informed.
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nodes, perhaps with a slot for properties, rather than
large structures containing many pointers. This allows structure
sharing, which can greatly decrease the space required to store a
parsed document.
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A well designed
auditory output and accept input
by shocks or sounds. It could look like the Bao Ding iron balls
you're supposed to use to exercise your hands.
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Irony and sarcasm deflate seriousness, and when your seriousness becomes detum
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What we *need* is for some advanced off-world sentience to carpet nuke planet
Earth from high orbit. Call it Equal Opportunity Ethnic Cleansing. I mean,
racism is so petty. Why play favorites? -- RageBoy
now includes
APL, Unix, and Lisp.
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We have always been quite clear that Win95 and Win98 are not the systems to
use if you are in a hostile security environment. -- Paul Leach
The Internet is hostile
.c.knight%40juno.com
[8] http://www.charkbait.com/cs/cshL.htm
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This radically anti-cynical approach to life is not just a shared
disposition but also an act of conscious dissent. -- Alan Bershaw, on the
attitude of Jewel fans
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Techno addiction. More expensive than crack, keeps you up longer than
coke, makes you fatter than pot, but hey... it's legal.
-- Tim Byars [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to repeat stories told by others, but when they do, they
will make sure you know how closely associated they are with the
original teller. (I just noticed that my above remark about Sammy
Hagar confirms this.)
Do these predictions hold true, in your experience?
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pointer and
continuing up to the order-k pointer, after setting all of the node's
out-pointers; while the deletion algorithm starts from the order-k
pointer.
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To forget the evil in oneself is to turn one's own good -- now
or C++, even in the
early days? I seem to recall that you were the only one of the three
founders whose first choice was Lisp.
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Silence may not be golden, but at least it's quiet. Don't speak unless you
can improve
In http://www.cap-lore.com/MathPhys/RLBI.html, Norm Hardy writes:
Just now I have realized an error of several orders of magnitude. The
bandwidth to earth, measured in GHz, does not suffice to carry
the information that the resolution of the very long base line
interferometry of the
to incorporate formalization of agency risk
--- that is, less-than-total trust in information coming from a piece
of software with different interests --- into distributed systems
design.
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Perilous to all of us
On August 7th, an entity known as iDEFENSE sent out an announcement,
which is appended to this email. Briefly, iDEFENSE, which bills
itself as a global security intelligence company, is offering cash
for information about security vulnerabilities in computer software
that are not publicly known,
to write better viruses and worms for
Linux, and they could talk up Linux worm incidents.
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002. The world has lost a great
man. See http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start
.
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002. The world has lost a great
man. See http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=252 and
http://www.kode-fu.com/geek/2002_08_04_archive.shtml for details.
I wanted to install Apache 1.3.27 in a chroot; this explains how I did
it.
It turns out the Apache makefiles have this handy variable root.
You can set root to some directory you want everything to be installed
under, and it apparently won't touch anything outside of that
directory. But the
There's a general class of search algorithms where you're looking for
a path between two nodes through some very large graph, much too large
to search exhaustively. The straightforward breadth-first search,
possibly weighted by some metric of closeness-to-the-goal, performs
reasonably well on
I've been pondering how some of the blogs I read could be more
readable. Some of them could benefit a lot from some improved
guidelines on linking.
- The best links are noun phrases describing either the page linked to
or its subject matter, possibly even containing subordinate noun phrases,
Here's a rambling essay on giving a web browser a sort of Ajax
filesystem interface with event-notification built in.
Advocacy
Why would you want such a thing?
Ajax is necessary because applications built purely on the server side
can't provide the level of interactivity,
I wrote this incomplete essay (design document?) in January. It
describes an unimplemented technique for making server-side web
applications more transparent, inspired by TinyTemplate, TAL, Nevow,
and HTML::Template. I wanted to finish it up before sending it out to
the world, but it's been
I posted the first draft of this at
http://www.relevancellc.com/blogs/?p=36#comments in response to a
query along the lines of What would it take for Ruby to be considered
enterprise software? Transactions?. It received some positive
responses, so I thought I'd save a copy, revise it slightly,
(A quick first draft from some time ago. Needs references.)
I saw a web page for a piece of software called Pepakura, which
takes 3-D models as input and prints out a colored cut-out pattern on
paper, which you can then cut out and assemble to get an approximation
of the original 3-D model.
Maybe you could build an interesting infobot on top of a Prolog-like
system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] blah blahdety blabble blag blocc
becomes a fact:
uttered(xentrac, kragen, localhost, utterance([blah, blahdety, blabble, blag,
blocc])).
Now, we might have a rule
utterance(Y) :- uttered(X,
M and C used to work together on in-house application, but now C has
gone off to join a startup.
M C - Interesting fact: Now that we have more and more people using
our web services on the in-house application, they all see to
prefer REST to SOAP.
C not surprised
M In fact, the only
I happened to read Anton Sherwood's blog the other day. In
http://www.ogre.nu/wp/?p=1642 he mentioned several things that he had
almost invented, i.e. he'd invented them independently and then
discovered they were already well-known.
One was Alex Tabarrok's dominant assurance contracts; another
(3800 words, terribly sorry)
Lots of web pages are computed dynamically from some set of resources.
For example, a blog's front page is computed dynamically from a
(potentially large) set of blog posts. The display of an RSS aggregator,
such as the LiveJournal friends page, is computed
Microsoft's recently-proposed alternative to the $100 OLPC PC was a
device to connect cellphones to TVs for a larger display. You can
generate an NTSC video signal without a whole lot of hardware. Is it
beneficial, and how hard is it?
Is it beneficial?
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My recent trip to Toys
In October, I wrote about how it would be nice for the first-edition
OED to be publicly available:
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-October/000794.html
At this point I have scanned volumes 1 (A-B), 2 (C), 3 (D-E), 4 (F-G),
5 (H-K) (Paul Nguyen did the work), and parts of
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