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Note that the homebrew package is out of date and will not work with APFS, or with the latest compression codecs.

I adored Eliss when it released. I still use it at one of the single best examples of how a touch UX radically changes the computing experience by aligning software behavior with p…

For unknown reasons, ARC has truncated my code-comment. It read: // => `45`, because `this.a` is resolved to `window.a`, as `window` is the global variable used as the method conte…

Yeah, I agree with the other comments -- the greatest JS scoping gotcha involves unbound methods. var o = { a:13, add:function(b){ return this.a + b; } }; o.add(42); // => `55` var…

I've always heard them referred to as "Generic Functions", though the Wikipedia article is annoying opaque. The important quality (in my practical understanding) is that a generic …

This critique reminds me very strongly of Evan Miller's "How Not To Sort By Average Rating": http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... In both cases, the key …

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Here's that search-interest graph he inexplicably screencaps in the article, rather than also linking to it: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=cassand... I added Cas…

Some of the most frustrating problems I've seen are due to misunderstanding or rare semantics rather than mistakes. Examples might include the specifics of floating-point math, or …

You know, I still have a 50-odd Erlang article queue. So I'm not saying I want every day to be Haskell Day, but I'm also not saying I'd be terribly upset if I had a few hundred art…

You might also look into Berkeley JE. It's an in-process KV store, which might be a minor crimp for you, but it's more mature than god and transparently handles paging to disk and …

The original post has disappeared. Here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zlciYW0...

I don't think trivializing the combinations with Python's builtins, looking up the fib primes with OEIS, or computing factors with Alpha is cheating. I hope, in fact, it's the whol…

David Gelernter is a CS professor at Yale, an author, and as far as I can tell, not really a scumbag. But who knows, he did name his coordination language Linda, because "'Ada' is …

I built and tried this out. I'm rather shocked to see speed and compression ratio better than gzip -9. The results of my unscientific test (compression only): Compressor Size Ratio…