Tue, 07 Oct 2008

Starkiller: A static compiler for Python

The real benefit of flow-insensitivity is freedom from having to care about time.

-- Starkiller, 2004.

Sun, 05 Oct 2008

Analog literals

A solution to a common problem:

// Consider:

 unsigned int a = 4;

// Have you ever felt that integer literals like "4" don't convey the true size of the value they denote? If so, use an analog integer literal instead:

 unsigned int b = I---------I;

 assert( a == b );

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008

For Timo art with me

Chris Wakelin asks Timo of Dovecot to change his English usage:

I've been meaning to tell you that should be "Yeah" for an informal version of "Yes", otherwise it's a very archaic form of "Yes" or "Indeed" as in "Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death"!

Stewart Dean points out:

But Timo walks through the valley of the shadow for us all.....so maybe he's entitled.....

Psalm 23:4

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Tue, 12 Aug 2008

Geocoding location

Writes Aldon Hynes:

A random thought to muck up the works... What about people posting locations from virtual worlds?

Steve's head explodes.

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Mon, 19 May 2008

Humility in the open source world

"Thanks, Markus. I'm glad to know I was dumb"

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Fri, 16 May 2008

Another satisfied customer (of Dovecot)

everything is perfect.

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Sat, 03 May 2008

Lessons to learn

<vsrinivas> what I really really wish existed somewhere was a 'lessons to learn from N'
<vsrinivas> where N was plan9, coyotos, erlang, alef, ....
<vsrinivas> because srsly, we're not using them. but it'd be nice to understand what worked and what didn't and how it was applicable to reality
<paulproteus> "Programming UNIX as if it were Plan 9"
<paulproteus> "Programming Python as if it were Erlang"
<paulproteus> "Coyotos idioms for kernel designers"
<vsrinivas> something like that
<paulproteus> "Alef for Naught?  Not!"
<vsrinivas> hahahahahaha!

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