guess the world doesn’t want to be eaten…
11 Jan 2012 5:54pm GMT My favorite quote from Cory Doctorow’s excellent Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose computing. This stuff matters because we’ve spent the last decade sending our best players out to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it’s just been an end-level guardian. Must [...]
e-readers are doomed! doomed I tellsya!
6 Jan 2012 7:40pm GMT Matt Alexander, at The Loop, resurfaces the by-now well-known idea that e-readers (specifically eInk devices like the Kindle) are doomed to quick extinction. The reasoning is based on the following, quoting from the article (many of the points are repeated two or three times, “technology” in particular): Technology. The technology is “[...] inherently stunted. E-ink is [...]
mini-ode to “hello, world”
2 Jan 2012 9:32pm GMT “FORTRAN begat ALGOL, which begat CPL, which begat BCPL, from whence B, and then C, arose…” I hadn’t looked at Scala in a while, so I head over to www.scala-lang.org and start looking through docs. First the tutorial, and sure enough the first thing they do is show a Hello, World example. It suddenly struck [...]
space pilot 3000
1 Jan 2012 10:47am GMT Hey! Only a decade late. Happy New Year’s everyone!!!
hacker cooties
24 Dec 2011 12:34am GMT I am definitely enjoying this, the tail end of 2011, living largely in disconnected mode, barely looking at news, catching up on books and movies. Come January, there will be time for frenetic engagement with the electronic world. Something I wanted to share though, was a fragment on Charlie Stross’s “how I got here in [...]