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“# Proper tail-recursion
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“Enter the URL of the site you’d like to subscribe to. We’ll find the RSS feed for”
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Archive for December, 2007
links for 2007-12-31
December 31, 2007links for 2007-12-29
December 29, 2007-
“people in the Cheney circle who feel very sorry for the cook when he is chewed out unfairly. Because, after all, they do not send disagreeable judges to be tortured in concentration camps for failing to send others there. This is an important distinction
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“With the rise of Ajax and microformats, are these still useful, or are microformats “light” enough? As picograms are lighter than micrograms, we’ll explore how lighter than “lightweight” formats JSON (lighter than YAML) and reStructured Text (lighter tha
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via http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters46/index.html
“A very clever wiki-syntax, keeping the source very legible. Used in TRAC.” -
“an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is
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“Key Words: instant messaging • IM • text messaging • texting • SMS • computer-mediated communication
While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technol
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“Is Atom a format or a protocol? It’s both! Use it for syndication and publishing”
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“In June 2001, wireless phone users sent 30 million text messages in the United States, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, an industry trade organization. By June 2002, that number had increased to nearly 1 billion.”
links for 2007-12-28
December 28, 2007-
“A function to be invoked to create the new substring (to put in place of the substring received from parameter #1).”
links for 2007-12-27
December 27, 2007-
“So basically, there are 4 dimensions:
* Static (expressions have types) vs. dynamic (values have types)
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Mount Desert, on the Coast of Maine … – Page 87
by Clara Barnes Martin – Mount Desert Island (Me.) – 1877 – 95 pages
ALL the west of the Island is as easily reached from Southwest Harbor as from
Somesville. Doa MOUNTAIN may be ascended by taking -
How does it compare to Google Docs?
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Works on Firefox 2, doesn’t work on Blazer 4.3
links for 2007-12-26
December 26, 2007-
A compilation of critical remarks about Jakob Nielsen
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NOTE: Our altar is open to all people who desire to be closer to God and strengthened in their faith. If you wish to receive the bread, simply open your hands. We are consecrating grape juice as well as wine. The wine is in the silver chalice, the grape j
links for 2007-12-25
December 25, 2007-
December 20, 2007
Dear Friends,
The rush is on! Please take a break from your last-minute chores to reflect on the wonderful event we are preparing to celebrate. May His Peace be with you this week
and every week!
———Planning for the Epi
links for 2007-12-24
December 24, 2007-
“This file is both a HTML file and a literate Haskell program. If you rename it to .lhs you can compile it with GHC 6.6. This is a functional, if limited, JPEG decoder. It only decodes grayscale, 8-bit images and is overly sensitive to the options used.”
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“Here’s some suggestions in order of their size (as a compressed image rather than install or memory requirements). Most run on x86 hardware and are graphical.
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“It’s horrible, terrible, inhuman torture. I can hardly imagine worse. I’d prefer permanent damage and disability to experiencing it again. I’d give up anything, say anything, do anything.
The Spanish Inquisition knew this. It was one of their favorite
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“prepared by Alan Kay for his students and is presented here for those who want to learn more about the ideas and philosophies that influenced the creation of Squeak.
MARSHALL MCLUHANGutenberg Galaxy
Understanding Media
LEWIS MUM
links for 2007-12-23
December 23, 2007-
“You can take the eternal, divinely inspired answers, and then choose among the questions until you find one to which the answer is right. In this way it is entirely possible to switch your position on such matters as slavery, democracy, divorce, the posi
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“Our brain is wired with “seeking circuitry” and relishes exercising “the regime of competence.” TV shows like “Lost” and video games like “World of Warcraft” are addictive because they reward exploration. Instead of employing narrative ar
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via http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/
an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists – one that challenges the existing paradigm of meaningful social analyses being possible only on the
links for 2007-12-22
December 22, 2007-
“He identified that “Five categories of elements define not only the construction of a tale, but the tale as a whole.”:
1. Functions of dramatis personae (see below)
2. Conjuctive elements (ex machina, announcement of misfortune, chance disclosure
links for 2007-12-21
December 21, 2007-
“Small file size <35KB Total, <10KB Compressed!
Only 2 files (js + icons) required for operation.
Flexible Configuration replace textareas or divs
Multiple editors can optionally use single controls
Save content via AJAX or HTTP Post
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“A survey of expected waypoints on the path to a real semantic web, built mostly from stones the W3C has rejected”
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“fValidator is an open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation.”
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“main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. “
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“1. It’s taking money out of the pockets of working photographers;
2. It’s putting money into the coffers of large corporations, whose executives like CC-enabled crowdsourcing even better than Third World child labor;
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“Evergreen is currently in use by Georgia Library PINES, a consortium of 270 public libraries. Additionally, libraries in British Columbia have committed to migrating to Evergreen, and Prince Rupert Library and Fort Nelson Public Library have already put
