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Some thoughts on "little languages" and their role in the software process.

There's a bug in the online shop - the "add to cart" button for the first book doesn't work (second one does).

You're compiling C to LISP, and you're not even telling us??? This being HN, I have to quote you for everybody's benefit: "Vacietis aims to be a C99 to Common Lisp compiler that pr…

My main language is Java these days, but I use lots of other languages as well (e.g. Perl, Python, R, sh, MATLAB, ...). However, C remains the language that I know most thoroughly,…

At home: MacOS X Ubuntu GNU/Linux HP-UX At work 1: Ubuntu GNU/Linux MacOS X At work 2: Windows XP Ubuntu GNU/Linux

IBM is playing Jeopardy, or rather it is letting a cluster of 3000 machines play. Here's an analysis what IBM gets out of it, on the business side and on the technical side.

Time Management: How to Avoid Fragmentation and Distraction

- edit distance for various projects (OCR post-correction, spelling correction, word alignment of bilingual text) - Viterbi algorithm in text part-of-speech disambiguation - Viterb…

The Orange open source toolkit combines machine learning with pre-packaged algorithms and Python "hackability"

add computation of U.S. sales tax/GB VAT/DE Umsatzsteuer/...

A little post about vertical search engines dedicated to support researchers in their hunt for papers.

Four types of abstraction are the magic spells that the aspiring computer scientist needs to know, and SICP/6.001 taught them using Scheme.

Cambridge physicist McKay computed that the average person in the UK spends as much energy as 125-135 light bulbs (on all the time). But where should that energy come from?

Peter Seible, author of Practical Common LISP, has interviewed 15 programmers...

Did you think that state censorship affects just a few corporate entities in China? Not so. Here's how you can find out whether your blog can be read from China or whether it is bl…

In democracies, participation in the political process is now possible online, but that requires some tool support. Ideas need to be shared, votes have to be cast, petitions have t…

As distributed computing is becoming mainstream, a lot of people throw around terms like "cluster", "clouds" or "grid" as if they were interchangeable. Here's an attempt to see thr…

"As of this writing, Cambridge seems to be the intellectual capital of the world." That can be said for at least two Cambridges.