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Sean McGrath

Another sad loss

my mum used to say that bad news and good news travel around in groups of three...we had steve jobs. then denis ritchie, and now, apparently, john mccarthy.lisp was one of the great inventions in all of computer science. its influence on all programming languages - including those that chose to make themselves not-lisp-like, has been immense. if ever a p... (114 天前)

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Boooookkkkkkksssssssss

having a soft spot for paper books may seem odd for somebody in my line of work but i absolutely *love* books - paper books.join that with an interest in legal publishing and, well, this pic from inside the loc is like a picture of disneyland to a child.i had the great fortune to get a tour of the law library in the loc a while back and it is absolutely ... (126 天前)

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Denis Ritchie RIP

wow. today i learned that denis ritchie has passed away. very sad.i met him once at an unix conference in london when the plan 9 operating system was being evangalized as the logical successor to unix.i still have my copy of "k and r" - the book properly known as the c programming language book written by kernighan and ritchie. a true classic and, as far... (126 天前)

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Steve Jobs remembered

my first paying job in it was to implement a stock control system in visicalc on an apple ][ running the cp/m operating system. one of these. a bit later i worked on a lisa and then a fat mac.it was the mac that started my love affair with text processing thanks to the apple imagewriter printer and then the amazing apple laserwriter.one of my final year ... (132 天前)

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A coming epidemic of disabled programmers?

i am very glad to see that rsi (repetitive strain injury) is the subject of a talk at pycon ireland.the world is full of programmers in the 20-30 year old range, regularly pulling 18 hour coding sessions without giving it a second thought. only taking breaks for restroom use, eating at their desks...you can do that in your twenties and thirties but chanc... (147 天前)

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Visual Tables and Meaning

john lewis commented on my post about the thorny issue of visual tables and content semantics. john goes on to ask if the tables can be removed from legal or para-legal documents somehow?i do not think so unfortunately. the inter-weaving of pure content and semantics are too deep. douglass hofstadter's article in scientific american about knuth's meta-fo... (148 天前)

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On URIs and URNs: Every problem can be solved with a

john sheridan is pondering uris and urns. i have pondered that a lot too. the idea of having another degree of independence between names (e.g. cites to legislation) and actual dereferencable identifiers makes a lot of sense of course. we don't want to tie ourselves down to implementations or platforms or server hosts if we can avoid it. especially if th... (167 天前)

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