Viewing profile — Daemmerung

Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food

Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers , which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals…

Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci , written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html

Or Windows CE.

I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZS…

Most of the articles of any size on that site have been cut-and-pasted from elsewhere. Maybe it's a splog-in-training.

M-x dissociated-press

There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SIS…

The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores. Pe…

Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384

Gambit is a Scheme-to-C compiler; Objective-C is a superset of C. Hence all the iPhone sees is a regular subset of Objective-C. http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-ipho…

APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users mu…

Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (eve…

... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a…

On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!

Thanks, Walter. I've tried using XKeymacs ( http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html ) to this end, but had problems with the previous Thunderbird. Perhaps I should try again …

vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....

The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow…

3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.

Scientific American has been declining ever since Flanagan left its masthead, twenty-five years ago. Try American Scientist ( http://www.americanscientist.org/ ) instead-- it remin…

The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README ).

If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbo…

A lucky hole in our current series of rainstorms gave me horizon-wide clear skies, and the moon was not yet risen. I saw a lovely show, about 2 per minute. (rural West Coast, USA) …

Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were in…

"Strips of old tire" (from your cited article) would be thicker than the soles of my Fivefinger Sprints. All of my running surfaces are rocky or gravelly, and the Sprints do not pr…