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@TrustTommy is that brother's or brothers'? And if former, which one? |
@TrustTommy but instead you can update your blog? |
@briancollins COBOL can fork(), you know |
@briancollins ok, what to teach for concurrency? "Erlang" is the default answer, but I'm sceptical. |
@andrewcatton good point |
@boucher good list. though I'm not sure about TAOCP - unnecessarily heavy for most purposes, imo. (still great books, of course.) |
MapReduce, even. Though MadReduce sounds fun. |
To get started: I'd include lots of existing systems (SBCL/Squeak internals/implementation, 4.4BSD), SICP, & a reimplementation of MadReduce |
if you were putting together a CS curriculum, what would you include? |
@aroonicus hm, will check it out |
DJ-Kicks have produced some truly rocking stuff. |
UNIX bug: it's too hard to control buffering in pipes (fflush() in awk, unbuffer(1), sed -u, grep --line-buffered, ...) |
wants to be somewhere brighter than Vancouver |
Bank of Ireland is a penny stock again |
End of previous tweet reads "very neat", but twitter web interface screwed it up. |
Tip: ssh <computer-name>.<mobileme-account-name>.members.mac.com, and Back To My Mac automatically sets up the tunnel. Very ...... |
Frustrated. |
Browsing photos on facebook felt faster before they ajaxified it. Zero UI feedback = bad. |
Email templates are the mail client shark jump. Outlook in 1999 (or whatever), Mail.app in 2006, Gmail in 2008. |
Go see Hunger - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...(2008_film) - powerful. |
