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Linkage 2007.02.07

RIFE<br/>

Perpetual motion machine<br/>

Heins has an even greater uphill battle. He isn’t an engineer. He doesn’t have a graduate degrees in physics. He never even finished his electronics program at Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec. “I have mild dyslexia and don’t do well in math, so I didn’t do very well in school,” he says.

jsArc<br/>

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Core Language<br/>

One reason Lisp cores evolve so slowly is that we get used to them. You start to think in the operators that already exist. It takes a conscious effort to imagine how your code might be rewritten using operators that don’t.

Turtles all the way down<br/>

Marriage ends genius?<br/>

Within five years of making their nuptial vows, nearly a quarter of married scientists had made their last significant contribution to history’s hall of fame.

Usenet: Functional vs. OOP<br/>

Rubiverse: Evan Phoenix on Rubinious<br/>

Typography of Code<br/>

Syntax highlighting is great. But no matter how well your code is marked, it can never make up for a well thought out typeface. One that is properly spaced, has distinct and readable characters, and is flexible at various sizes.

Mathematical Screwups<br/>

Xen in high-availability clusters<br/>

If you need to have your application always available, you’ll need to investigate if you can run two instances of the application at the same time and what happens if you would connect to another application instance in the middle of a session.

Webgen<br/>

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