Aug 19, 2008
Project Doris
Project Doris is actually the name of a programming language -- actually it's three programming languages. I suppose some explanation is in order.
A History of Project Doris
It's probably wise to begin at the beginning. Right after obtaining my undergraduate ...
Aug 15, 2008
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Ficciones
Chesterton, Dequincey's Writings, Rosae Crucis, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Achilles and the Tortoise, Baudelaire, Heliogabalus, Babylon lottery and Butter, Liar's paradox, Ab aeterno, Torpid, Latin, Berkeley, History of Caesar, God's secret name?, Timeless Way of Building, JHVH, Koran II:261, Judas
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Alasdair Gray, Lanark
Elizabeth Taylor, ...
Aug 4, 2008 one comment
Java left fold
Using Functional Java
public static <A, B> A fold(F<A, F<B, A>> f, A z, Iterable<B> xs) {
A p = z;
for (B x : xs) {
p = f.f(p).f(x);
}
return ...
Jul 23, 2008
Confession
I have tried to write my own text editor. I succeeded, yet failed.
Lame
I mean really... who the hell, in this modern day and age, writes their own text editor?1
Additionally, when said text editor is written, who the hell writes ...
Jul 23, 2008 some comments
Goal
Write with the full knowledge that what I write has no influence over anything.
Goal
Write as if I were reading the blog. If I post something that I wouldn't read during a random internet stumble, then I fail.
Goal
No one reads this blog, ...
Jul 22, 2008
Finally got around to wrapping up the second iteration of Broccoli. Most of the work was put towards changing the syntax. That is, I originally went with a Lispy syntax filled with parentheses to one where different symbols are used ...
Jul 18, 2008
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
aleph-null, aleph-1, logarithms and Richter, elementary number theory,
unit fractions, The Art of Counting, twin primes, number roundness, Ramsey Theory, friendly numbers, perfect numbers, Mersenne primes, 4th dimension
relatively prime, partitions, Smith numbers, Ruth-Aaron pairs, combinatorics,
The Revolt of ...
Jul 16, 2008
In a nutshell
((Richard Dawkins + Christopher Hitchens)/2) - Bluster = Russell
Notes
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Why I am not a Christian by Russell
First causes, J.S. Mill autobigraphy, natural-law argument,
2nd law of thermodynamics, Spaniards in Mexico, argument from design,
excuses for pain and suffering, dashing baby brains, ...
Jul 16, 2008
While Reading Steve Yegge
Read the book, Patterns of Software.
Read about the Emacs/XEmacs schism and Lucid Inc.
Is Emacs too far along to take a commit from the likes of me?
I almost forgot about James Clark's nxml-mode!
LLVM
While reading Bill Clementson
I have very little (read: ...
Jul 16, 2008
Broccoli v0.1.2 released
Thinking about Scala
Scala at the core allows mutable and immutable objects based with the following observation:
Objects can be mutable or immutable. The latter is preferred when it’s possible, since it needs no concurrency control. Also, these days it’s ...