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- 03October 3
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ThoughtThat’s it, folks. This is the last issue of Anarchaia. Life goes on at Trivium. See you all on the other side.
LHC Grid Fest, “When the Large Hadron Collider comes into operation, it will begin to produce an expected 15 million gigabytes of data every year, enough information to create a 21-kilometre-high stack of CDs annually. On 3rd October, the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid consortium announce the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), an e-infrastructure conceived and designed to support this data challenge.”
Ruby Manor, a promising conference idea.
Missed Connections, mapped by state.
das ist als wuerde der ORF
aufhoeren zu senden :) — Manuel Simoni - 02October 2
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Let’s build an MP3-decoder! in Haskell. “The end result is a decoder that is inefficient and not standards compliant, but with hopefully readable code.”
Skunk Bomb?, Israel Takes Chemical Warfare to a Stinky New Level, WJW.
He’ll take you up, he’ll bring you down,
He’ll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way hes gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
— Moody Blues, Legend Of A MindThoughtCreativity is the art of amazing yourself.A Sysadmin’s Unixersal Translator (Rosetta Stone), or: What do they call that in this world? Very useful. Covers AIX, A/UX, DG/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NCR Unix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Reliant, SCO OpenServer,
- 01October 1
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Google 2001, “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” Amazing, but only up for a month.
Visibility is a pager-like thing for your X11 desktop, showing the icons of open windows.
CodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities.
Now you’re telling me you’re not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
— Joan Baez, Diamonds And RustPhotoshop photo frame, the first ever analog “digital” photo frame. WJW.
Origami, the first folding editor, which is even programmable in a Lisp like language
- 30September 30
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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman, and he’s right.
Light Switch Complicator, I like.
Who holds the blank thoughts of people when nothing is said?
And who turns the lights out after you’ve gotten in bed?
I guess I’ll never know why
I’ll just lay here and decay here
— Moby Grape, Lazy MeAsk a Google engineer, whatever you want to know on Google Moderator.
Nostalgia, Kellan Elliott-McCrea: “You remember those dark days after the first bust?”
Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.
But you tell me
- 29September 29
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Critbit trees in C, “This code is taken from Dan Bernstein’s qhasm and implements a binary crit-bit (alsa known as PATRICA) tree for NUL terminated strings. Crit-bit trees are underused and it’s this author’s hope that a good example will aid their adoption.” Yay!
The Meat Hooker: Steak, by mybostinks. “The technique of preparing the perfect steak is quite simple and uncomplicated. It’s an art that has almost been forgotten.”
I’ll go through life searchin’
Tryin’ to find the one
I’d go slip, slip, you’d
go slip, slip away
— Love, A Message to PrettyHow to implement a typechecker? (PDF), by Freek Wiedijk. Also, how to self-verify proof assistants.
A Taxonomy for “Bad Code Smells”, useful reference.
