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Monthly Archives: January 2012
guess the world doesn’t want to be eaten…
Posted by on January 11, 2012
My favorite quote from Cory Doctorow’s excellent Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose computing. This stuff matters because we’ve spent the last decade sending our best players out to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it’s just been an end-level guardian. Must [...]
e-readers are doomed! doomed I tellsya!
Posted by on January 6, 2012
Matt Alexander, at The Loop, resurfaces the by-now well-known idea that e-readers (specifically eInk devices like the Kindle) are doomed to quick extinction. The reasoning is based on the following, quoting from the article (many of the points are repeated two or three times, “technology” in particular): Technology. The technology is “[...] inherently stunted. E-ink is [...]
mini-ode to “hello, world”
Posted by on January 2, 2012
“FORTRAN begat ALGOL, which begat CPL, which begat BCPL, from whence B, and then C, arose…” I hadn’t looked at Scala in a while, so I head over to www.scala-lang.org and start looking through docs. First the tutorial, and sure enough the first thing they do is show a Hello, World example. It suddenly struck [...]
