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Oct 9, 2016
A major problem with captchas is that OCR is good enough to fool it some of the time. Will machine learning do the same to Mechanical Turk?
Oct 9, 2016
It wasn't until I wrote a Scheme interpreter that I really understood the relationship between lists and cons cells.
Oct 9, 2016
Nightlight: An embedded editor for Clojure https://sekao.net/nightlight/ Very cool -- embedding an editor in the live application!
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Nightlight
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Oct 9, 2016
Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/esug/perfection-feedback-loops-or-why-worse-is-better (on the striving for perfection vs iteration)
Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better
Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better
The document discusses the concept of perfection and feedback loops. Some key points: - Perfection does not exist as context and problems are constantly changing. Feedback loops are more important than trying to build a perfect solution. - Exponential growth means problems can increase enormously over time, so waiting for perfection means missing opportunities for improvement. - Systems that incorporate feedback through iterative improvements can surpass "finished" solutions that lack feedback. Open source and agile development are examples. - To build effective systems, focus on feedback loops rather than distant goals, and accept imperfection as progress is made through small iterative changes. - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Oct 9, 2016
If you want to get your feet wet with Pharo Smalltalk, the videos and materials from the MOOC are now available!
Index of /image
Oct 9, 2016
Linux 4.8 would crash due to aggressive asserting: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html (interesting thread: hard to segment critical code in a monolith)
Oct 8, 2016
Woohoo! Landed my first patch in Emacs core! https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/ed399f26fa78fa69171e32b34af9a77debf57fad 🎉
; Minor improvement in documentation of generators · emacs-mirror/emacs@ed399f2
; Minor improvement in documentation of generators · emacs-mirror/emacs@ed399f2
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Generators): Add a 'require' to the example code. (Bug#24539)
Oct 8, 2016
I'm surprised by how often Wikipedia is a good resource for technical documentation. I'm using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format to write ELF files!
Executable and Linkable Format - Wikipedia
Executable and Linkable Format - Wikipedia
Oct 8, 2016
What's the antonym of 'hostile fork'? 'Friendly fork'? 'Affectionate fork'?
Oct 8, 2016
The author of nasm-mode has a great opinionated blogpost on different assemblers and their advantages/disadvantages:
NASM x86 Assembly Major Mode for Emacs
Oct 7, 2016
Current status: replacing prog2, an emacs lisp special form, with a macro: https://gitlab.com/wilfred/emacs/commit/91967f11ed8a69ea29215e8219cafaef5f550fe2 Unsure if there's interest upstream.
Make prog2 a macro rather than a special form (91967f11) · Commits · Wilfred Hughes / emacs · GitLab
Oct 6, 2016
Rust's error messages can refer to multiple parts of code, and include increasing amounts of prose: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html looks promising!
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Oct 6, 2016
Design for experts; accomodate beginners https://pchiusano.github.io/2016-02-25/tech-adoption.html (on the relationship between language power, learning curve, and adoption)
Paul Chiusano: Design for experts; accomodate beginners
Oct 6, 2016
Current status: experimenting with CI for @guilelang!
Setting up CI for Guile
Oct 5, 2016
I think three months is the perfect length for a side project. Long enough to build something cool without getting sick of it.
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