April 2009
44 posts
Java Concurrency and Volatile - all that jazz →
Seems like bad semantics to me. A mutable object should not be copied and become immutable without an instruction to do so. This is an optimisation and thus shouldn’t be the default.
The variable str(which is a copy in the new thread) would be existing in a scope that it hasn’t been declared for. wtf?
Chinese version of Google Maps →
dhotson:
Really impressive.. the entire city appears to be drawn in a similar style to SimCity 2000. :-O
Programing a Turing machine →
The theoretical model for programming is based on the Turing machine, a finite state machine with an infinite storage tape. The von Neumann architecture, an implementation of the theoretical…
Geocities →
I really hate to admit it, but geocities had a bit of an impact on my life. In ~1995 my dad brought a new computer with a 9600 b/s dial up modem and after a very short time playing around dialing up…
“Are we men? Are we children?
At what age, can I choose how to live?”
– NOFX LYRICS - Herojuana
Heavy Boots →
ummmm… weight –noun Physics. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass.
lol, but really I’m just spliting hairs.
drealmer:
I remember having a hard time convincing a friend that two objects fall at the same speed...
CAADD
Computer Aided Attention Deficit Disorder
“(845): im sorry i didnt take advantage of you..iwaned to
(1-845): i wanted you...”
– texts from last night
Gutsy move…
Heavy Boots →
As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. “My God! How can all those people be so stupid?” I tried to be understanding. “Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it’s not part of their basic view of the world, so they’ve forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake.”
I don't like PDFs →
When I see a link to a PDF I know it’s going to be:
large document with text packed tightly in to columns
an academic paper full of irrelevant information to pad it out to a size worth making a PDF…
Apple pulls down baby shaking game - ... →
“People who downloaded and played the game said the player had to shake the phone vigorously to stop the crying sound. The game ends when red crosses appear on the baby’s eyes, signifying that it has died.”
“New parents, babysitters, and other caregivers can be warned about the dangers of shaking infants.” - Wikipedia Shaken baby syndrome#Prevention
Apple pulled...
“we’ll always be more productive in a language that promotes a type of thought...”
– “Syntactic Sugar”
Coding Horror: How Not to Conduct an Online Poll →
It’s not “hackers”, it’s large numbers of bored people with a little bit of time to spare. This wasn’t a “great hack”, but it would have taken no time at all to setup and the outcome was pretty funny. Human beings can now collaborate on a massive scale for the most useless of purposes, this is an amazing thing
“O’Brien’s Corollary (1991) to Godwin’s Law: The first person to mention ‘Turing...”
– Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » DSL Writers: Put Turing Completeness Out Of Your Mind
“//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only...”
– What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - Stack Overflow
“Or if I’m feeling a bit haskelly, a fountain pen and a stripper’s...”
– createuniverses comments on What “To-Do” List software do you use, or did you write your own?
13 things that do not make sense - space - 19... →
One Div Zero: Erlang Style Actors Are All About... →
"What" ain't no rendering engine I ever heard... →
Thought:
I once thought that in the software industry thinks change so quickly that if I just wait anything I was going to build will be built by someone else.
As years go by I realise that if you leave a job to other people they will evidently do it wrong and then I’ll have to deal with the world and headaches they created.
Brisbane teenager Ethan Johnson rode bike 950km... →
My Hero!
"We're Linux" Video Contest Winners! | The Linux... →
Wow, these ads are terrible.
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next... →
The outcome of vista taking so long to be released is that users got used to nothing changing. So any change is a massive hassle and why bother when Win XP is a perfectly usable electronic typewriter.
The Anthropik Network » Learning to Walk →
I think I’ve posted this before, but since I got new shoes I’ve been thinking about it more.
Modern Static Typing: Less Code, Better Code →
“Consider:
class Artist:
def draw(self):
print "Sketch!"
class Gunslinger:
def draw(self):
print "Bang!"
for obj in [Artist(), Gunslinger()]:
obj.draw()
Artist.draw and Gunslinger.draw are clearly not even conceptually related, and our Artist has wandered unwittingly into a gunfight. I considered this problem to be fairly unimportant from a practical...
“I could think of only one thing: why is something you can measure controversial?...”
– Alex Payne — Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion
Thought
Why is it that no matter how early I start an assignment, I’m always up late finishing it the night before it’s due?
Codekana blog » Blog Archive » On the Speed of... →
“PHP is like the man show. Its for real men (tm) who drink beer by the pitcher...”
– Best April Fools Day joke so far: PHP chooses the backslash as the namespace separator. : programming
“My sister walked in on the family crying, unaware we were about to tell her she...”
– One Sentence archive - story #2983
April 1st Gardening
April 1st, when all news on the web is overly suspect, and thus I’ll spent less time reading it and more time gardening
March 2009
50 posts
“Don’t ever take away from me my pornography
Obviously we don’t...”
– Rancid | Vanilla Sex
“A similar experiment in Moscow virtually collapsed when a multinational team of...”
– Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters