Thought Palace
Little boxes made of words (& pictures).
Assembled by Jens Alfke, techgeek.
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Quote reblogged from The New AestheticMy friends and I who are building websites — we’re kids! We’re kids playing around with tools given to us by adults. In decreasing order of adultness, and leaving out an awful lot, I’m talking about things such as: the Von Neumann stored program computing architecture; the transistor; high-throughput fibre-optic cables; the Unix operating system; the sci-fi-ish cloud computing platform; the web browser; the iPhone; the open source movement; Ruby on Rails; the Stack Overflow Q&A site for programmers; on and on, all the way down to the code that my slightly-more-adult co-workers write for my benefit.
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Photo reblogged from Buzz Andersen
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I’ve gotten pretty blasé about new tech, but I’m drooling at this — a 31” monitor with 140dpi resolution. That’s 3840 x 2160 pixels; four times the pixel count of a 1080p HDTV (and apparently the same as the upcoming “4K” ultra-HD TV format.)
At 140dpi it’s not a “retina display”, but you won’t be looking at it as close-up as you would a phone. For desktop use it should be awesome.
I have no idea what it’s going to cost, but Asus’s prices are usually pretty reasonable.
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Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language:
Like C, Terra is a simple, statically-typed, compiled language with manual memory management. But unlike C, it is designed from the beginning to interoperate with Lua. Terra functions are first-class Lua values created using the terra keyword. When needed they are JIT-compiled to machine code.
—Zach DeVito, Stanford
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Photo reblogged from The New Aesthetic
“An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label” found at http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg, via @shyhoof.
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Go 1.1 includes many improvements over 1.0.
The most significant improvements are performance-related. We have made optimizations in the compiler and linker, garbage collector, goroutine scheduler, map implementation, and parts of the standard library. It is likely that your Go code will run noticeably faster when built with Go 1.1.
There are some minor changes to the language itself, two of which are worth singling out here: the changes to return requirements will lead to more succinct and correct programs, and the introduction of method values provides an expressive way to bind a method to its receiver as a function value.
Concurrent programming is safer in Go 1.1 with the addition of a race detector for finding memory synchronization errors in your programs. We will discuss the race detector more in an upcoming article, but for now the manual is a great place to get started.
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JChris: “Stuart Langridge from Canonical wearing the best t-shirt inspired by an HTTP proxy bug ever.”
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Douglas Crockford (JavaScript guru and originator of JSON) models one of our Couchbase “You Had Me At JSON” t-shirts at QCon Tokyo
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Photo reblogged from The New Aesthetic
Twitter / redcatco: “We live in a world where even trash cans can kernel panic.”
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rms2:
Preface
Recently, and with increasing frequency, developers have been speaking out about the difficulties they’ve had trying to implement support for iCloud in their products, and journalists have been reporting the news. I told our story to Ars Technica, and they’ve made their own report….
