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Representation Invariant: The limits of touch-screens
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Friday, January 11, 2008. The limits of touch-screens. If a touch-screen is too big to wipe on your shirt sleeve, it's going to get too nasty to use. It's going to be too nasty even to sell,. Cause the floor-model in the shiny-shiny electronics store will be covered with greasy fingerprints. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nothing to See Here (Richard Tibbetts). Thoughts on Lisp: Things that other languages shou.
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Representation Invariant: May 2007
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Wednesday, May 23, 2007. My original plan for this blog was to post a longish post once a month or so. That's still the plan, I'm just behind schedule. Coming soon: the first in an occasional series on what is still interesting, novel, or otherwise distinguishing about Common Lisp; and following that, a geeky tale from my previous job on how clear water killed a robot submarine. Stay tuned. Nothing to See Here (Richard Tibbetts).
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Representation Invariant: January 2008
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Wednesday, January 23, 2008. I've just changed the blogspot settings so that posts and comments are separate feeds. That seems to be how most of the cool kids do it these days. Updated: in addition to the per-post comments feeds, there's now a link for an all-comments feed at the bottom of the main page. I wound up hand-editing the blogger template to add that; surely there's a better way? Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Ruby and Python, by defa...
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Representation Invariant: 50 in 50: finally on video
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Saturday, November 22, 2008. 50 in 50: finally on video. Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel's marvelous performance art programming languages talk "50 in 50" is finally online in video form. I saw this debut at HOPL III a couple years back, and have been wishing for a video ever since. Via Lambda the Ultimate. Yeah, I haven't posted in almost a year. Get used to it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nothing to See Here (Richard Tibbetts).
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Representation Invariant: October 2007
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Monday, October 22, 2007. Theory as software architecture (or the other way around). I read Scientific American magazines out of order. I just read the March '06 edition wherein I encountered a piece called " The Limits of Reason. These observations struck me as an interesting lens through which to view software development. Problem statement - Theory (architecture) - Existence proof (program). If our programming efforts succeed, we prove t...
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Representation Invariant: November 2007
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Sunday, November 25, 2007. Thoughts on Lisp: Things I don't like about lists. Lisp, of course, is named because it is a LISt Processing language. So I'll start right at the foundations with a list of things I don't like about Lisp's lists:. List" isn't a tagged type. A pair (known to Lisp as a cons. Is a tagged type. " List. Two or more lists can share pairs. Now imagine what happens if you sort one of them. Pair-based data-structures don't...
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Representation Invariant: September 2007
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Tuesday, September 11, 2007. Book review: Learning JavaScript, by Shelley Powers. I don't usually bother with book reviews, but Learning Javascript. By Shelley Powers, is an exceptionally bad technical book. I could write a page-by-page critique, but I'll limit myself to five things that illustrate the problems with this book:. Most blatant, the publisher's confirmed errata. The JavaScript interpreter initializes the global object with a nu...
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Representation Invariant: September 2009
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Saturday, September 26, 2009. I started this blog before I co-started a company of similar name. To more clearly separate my opinions from my company situation, I'll be posting over at engvhack. Now (Where, in the first post, I mention company work; but the parts where I say various people are idiots, you need to understand, are wearing my personal hat, not my professional hat.). Nothing to See Here (Richard Tibbetts).
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Representation Invariant: Moving...
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Saturday, September 26, 2009. I started this blog before I co-started a company of similar name. To more clearly separate my opinions from my company situation, I'll be posting over at engvhack. Now (Where, in the first post, I mention company work; but the parts where I say various people are idiots, you need to understand, are wearing my personal hat, not my professional hat.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Representation Invariant: November 2008
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Software, systems, programming languages, and related esoterica. Saturday, November 22, 2008. 50 in 50: finally on video. Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel's marvelous performance art programming languages talk "50 in 50" is finally online in video form. I saw this debut at HOPL III a couple years back, and have been wishing for a video ever since. Via Lambda the Ultimate. Yeah, I haven't posted in almost a year. Get used to it. Nothing to See Here (Richard Tibbetts). 50 in 50: finally on video.