Time loop
June 2008
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Przesyłka do Stanów Fedeksem kosztuje 300zł…
Dziesięć sezonów w 4.5 miesiąca. Teraz zostało już tylko Atlantis i oczekiwanie na Continuum…
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“There was some kind of a problem with his paperwork when he arrived from the U.K. so he was invasively searched, handcuffed, placed in a cell overnight, and deported the next day. According to his lawyer, he may never visit the US again.”
—Michael Feathers, “Culture of Severity”
“Years ago I tried to translate TeX’s line-breaking algorithm into Python code. In Knuth’s Computers and Typesetting, the algorithm is given in a Pascalish language. Some functions did lots of pointer shuffling that would be have been straightforward to translate into C, but to write Python code I had to actually disentangle the linked-list surgery to figure out whether it was list.append(x) or list.insert(0, x) or whatever.”
—A.M. Kuchling, “Explaining things: math vs programming”
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Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming →
itc.conversationsnetwork.org
A short talk by Simon Peyton-Jones on STM. It may sound interesting, but it’s still a concurrency that doesn’t scale to more than one machine.
