ich hab das buch im urlaub am strand gelesen und hab unterm sonnenschirm geheult.
have tracing JIT compilers won?
very interesting thread on LTU (featuring, among others, LuaJITting mike pall)
Data compression is the art of reducing the number of bits needed to store or transmit data. Compression can be either lossless or lossy. Losslessly compressed data can be decompressed to exactly its original value. An example is 1848 Morse Code. Each letter of the alphabet is coded as a sequence of dots and dashes. The most common letters in English like E and T receive the shortest codes. The least common like J, Q, X, and Z are assigned the longest codes.
Data Compression Explained, by Matt Mahoney
Anyone know the name of the programming challenge where you're supposed to make the program function incorrectly as subtle as possible? I remember that in a previous challenge you were supposed to write a luggage handling program for an airport, but every now and then it were supposed to send a bag to the wrong flight. I think it was a monthly challenge.
Do you mean the obfuscated C contest? http://www.ioccc.org/
If you regard the obfuscated c entries as being 'subtly incorrect' I must say I am fairly impressed
hehe
pretty: HTML clocks using JavaScript and CSS rotation (no canvas)
i just love mark twain - thanks to bruce schneier for that bit:
I hunted up statistics, and was amazed to find that after all the glaring newspaper headings concerning railroad disasters, less than three hundred people had really lost their lives by those disasters in the preceding twelve months. The Erie road was set down as the most murderous in the list. It had killed forty-six—or twenty-six, I do not exactly remember which, but I know the number was double that of any other road. But the fact straightway suggested itself that the Erie was an immensely long road, and did more business than any other line in the country; so the double number of killed ceased to be matter for surprise.
By further figuring, it appeared that between New York and Rochester the Erie ran eight passenger trains each way every day—sixteen altogether; and carried a daily average of 6,000 persons. That is about a million in six months—the population of New York city. Well, the Erie kills from thirteen to twenty-three persons out of its million in six months; and in the same time 13,000 of New York's million die in their beds! My flesh crept, my hair stood on end. "This is appalling!" I said. "The danger isn't in travelling by rail, but in trusting to those deadly beds. I will never sleep in a bed again."
time is the best teacher. unfortunately, it kills the student
anon?
This page gives brief, visual reference for the most common commands in git. Once you know a bit about how git works, this site may solidify your understanding.
Max Ray Vision - now that's a name for a hacker.
are the winter olympics dead or is it just me?
harhar:
SO IM LIKE FIBBING WIT N OK?
LOL ITERATE FIBONACCI TERMS LESS THAN N /LOL
SO GOOD N BIG LIKE EASTERBUNNY
BTW, FIBONACCI LIKE BUNNIES! LOL
(...)
COMPLAIN "NOW IZ" AND DATE OWN today THING
IZ BIGNESS ARGZ OK KINDA LIKE 1?
N CAN HAS 100
NOPE?
N CAN HAS NUMBR ARGZ LOOK AT 1!!
LOLPython!!11!elf!
document fragments sound like parts of a treasure map. and for some people they are.
Serious efforts are being made to get more typeface choices on the web to enhance web typography. Still, most of us prefer web-safe fonts like: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman and Arial. Though choices are limited, yet the number can be increased by exploring other pre-installed fonts.
note (to-read): revised font stack
Here is “Hello World” in PHP.
Hello World
On pistols and lead, now Bohr had to prove
The defendant is quickest to move.
Bohr accepted the challenge without a frown
He drew when we drew, and shot each one of us down.
This tale has a moral, tho' we knew it before.
It's foolish to question the wisdom of Bohr.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence.
aaaahh!
However, because of everything I've read (and learned about PHP, the language) since the announcement I'm not particularly excited about HipHop.
me neither. a php-to-c++ compiler ... how boring!
also:
Almost every single website on the internet is I/O bound, not CPU bound, web applications spend their time waiting on external resources (databases, memcache, other HTTP resources, etc.). So the part of me that develops websites professionally isn't super interested, Facebook is in the exceptionally rare circumstance that they've optimized their I/O to the point that optimizing CPU gives worthwhile returns.