Tag Archives: research

del.icio.us bookmarks for November 12th, 2007

The original metacircular evaluator on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - “Page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 Programmer’s Manual, showing the ‘evalquote’ function written as an m-expr. Basically, you’re looking at all of Lisp defined in terms of itself.”
Instantbird - An IM client made with XUL. Could it be the future of Thuderbird?
Synergy - “Synergy lets […]

del.icio.us bookmarks for October 23rd, 2007 through October 25th, 2007

How Hard Could It Be?: Five Easy Ways to Fail, Managing Technology Article - Inc. Article - “A huge number of technology projects go wrong. This is news to no one.”
Debian Administration :: Speedup DNS requests with a local cache -
mr - The mr(1) command can checkout, update, or perform other actions on a […]

del.icio.us bookmarks for September 3rd, 2007 through September 4th, 2007

A Designer Universe? - This article is based on a talk given in April 1999 at the Conference on Cosmic Design of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
Cartoons from Evolution: a journal of nature, 1927-1938 -
YouTube - A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces -
Javascript Object […]

del.icio.us bookmarks for August 16th, 2007 through August 19th, 2007

Coding Horror: Thirteen Blog Clichés - AS the first comment says, “it is still possible to follow all these guidelines and still be crap.”
Monad tutorials timeline - HaskellWiki - Writing monads tutorials has indeed become a genre in itself.
in theory: Lies, Damn LIes, and the Number of Sexual Partners -
Unqualified Reservations: What’s wrong with […]

Re: Unqualified Reservations: What’s wrong with CS research

Mencius Moldbug’s article What’s wrong with CS research gets it completely right on programming languages:
Choosing the best notation is the entire problem of programming language design, and this problem is neither mathematical nor scientific. A programming language is a user interface for programmers, and if you can reduce UI design to math, science, or any […]