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Linkage: 2007.11.19

Nov 19, 2007

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JGame<br/>

Here is the 3.0 release at last! It has full support for mobiles, and four of the games were specifically adapted to run nicely on mobiles. There have been major structural changes to the project (and the zip is more than twice as large now).

Todd Veldhuizen papers<br/>

The original intent of templates was to support generic programming, which can be summarized as “reuse through parameterization”. Generic functions and objects have parameters which customize their behavior.[*] These parameters must be known at compile time (i.e. must be statically bound).

F# Introduction<br/>

F# provides a language in which functional programming is easy and expressive, while at the same time practical and well-connected to the underlying .NET type-system and programming model. A exciting language for the .NET platform indeed!

E8<br/>

Semantic web… again<br/>

Various software tools such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) allow information to be annotated in machine-readable fashion.

Usenet: Python composition vs. inheritance<br/>

To illustrate the confusion, take your Pet-Owner example. When you say “A Pet has an Owner”, the verb “to have” has the sense of “to possess”. But possession alone is *not* the right sense of “to have” to suggest using containment.

A developer’s view of Android<br/>

Google provides three versions of the SDK; one for Windows, one for Mac OSX (intel) and one for Linux (x86). They also provide two development environments — one is Eclipse based, and the other is a “roll your own.” The Eclipse based environment is quite feature-rich and should suffice for most developers. There is no reason that you can’t use both Eclipse and “roll your own.”

Why did Symbolics fail?<br/>

The MacIvory was a Symbolics Ivory chip (yes, we made our own CPU chips) that plugged into the NuBus (oops, long-since gone) on a Macintosh (oops, not the leading platform). Later, they finally gave up on competing with the big chip makers, and made a plug-in board using a fast chip from a major manufacturer: the DEC Alpha architecture (oops, killed by HP/Compaq, should have used the Intel). By this time it was all too little, too late.

Comic Book Periodic Table of Elements<br/>

We recommend that you start with oxygen to see some of our best stuff.

The first 4004 program<br/>

When the shifter is filled with the correct pattern, and the desired row is in the right position, the hammers can be fired by bit1 of RAM0 port. E.g. when SQRT(2)=1.4142135623730 is printed, the following list of data should be sent to the shifter

Type Theory<br/>

What type theory does is create a new kind of collection object, called a type. The idea behind types is to create a stratification, similar to the idea behind ordered logics. In first order logic, you can only reason about primitive atoms, not about predicates. In second order logic, you can reason about atoms and first-order predicates, but not second-order predicates. And so on.

Multics History<br/>

Multics was conceived as a general purpose time-sharing utility. It would be a commercial product for GE, which sold time-sharing services. It became a GE and then Honeywell product. About 85 sites ran Multics. However, it had a powerful impact in the computer field, due to its many novel and valuable ideas.

Crypto-gram Newsletter<br/>

Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter from security expert Bruce Schneier. Each issue is filled with interesting commentary, pointed critique, and serious debate about security.

Time-machine for all<br/>

There are quite a few approaches out there which more or less do the same, but rsync is available on virtually every Unix out there (even the DSL with its 50MB footprint includes rsync). So using other tools might be more convenient, but I’ll stick with the omnipresent rsync.

Why Spaces is broken<br/>

I believe a major part of them problem is that Apple tried to make virtual desktops accessible to the average user.

Age of code in Vim<br/>

I recently read a blog post by someone (forgot the name) suggesting to use code highlighting for showing other things than syntax. One example was to show code age, i.e. which revision a line of code belongs to. This could be useful to find a newly introduced bug by having a visual indication of the age of each line.

Chipmunk BASIC<br/>

Recently I got a chance to play with the CommodoreOne being developed by Jeri Ellsworth, and found that even though it was great working on a P2S/2 style keyboard, it was darned hard to do any stuff with graphics symbols since they aren’t printed on the keys. (one of the reasons I don’t do serious Commodore stuff via the emulators too) So, knowing ‘I can do something about this’ I have went to work on generating the key legends for IBM/Mac Keyboards.

Play NetHack online<br/>

-m

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