Running with Zippers

May
12th

Mon

Addiction to addiction: the horrifying reality Serious discussion and good humor. This bit (from the Cracked article linked) is oh so true: Technology has obviously made books unnecessary, so the sight of even one book in a friend’s home should be cause for concern. If the person has gone as far as to purchase an entire special shelf to hold all of his books, it’s probably time for an intervention.

May
10th

Sat

vscaladoc - Google Code A variation of scaladoc, the documentation tool for Scala. It’s looking great, have a look at the API documentation for vscaladoc to have a taste of it.

May
9th

Fri

Tell us why your language sucks (Haskell edition) In the same vein as the Why OCaml sucks post, but now with Haskell. The idea is to criticize languages you use and like. A healthy exercise.

May
8th

Thu

Scala in the TOP 50

Speaking of Scala, it has just made it into the top 50 languages tracked by the TIOBE index. The index has its flaws, of course, and people should not make serious decisions based on it, but this fact signals that Scala is really growing in popularity and use. Let’s hope it keeps growing.

James Gosling likes Scala During a meeting in the Community Corner (java.net booth) with James Gosling, a participant asked an interesting question: “Which Programming Language would you use *now* on top of JVM, except Java?”. The answer was surprisingly fast and very clear: - Scala.

Why Ocaml Sucks Interesting analysis of the shortcomings of OCaml, written by a fan of the language.

May
7th

Wed

Puzzles

I’m thoroughly enjoying Puzzles for Programmers and Pros, but judging by the title I expected more puzzles that required programming. I guess I’ll take a look at Programming Challenges by Skiena and Revilla.

May
6th

Tue

Real World Haskell The book is already available for pre-ordering at amazon. The page says it will be published around August. I don’t know if it’s likely to be published so soon, but many new chapters have been published recently at the beta site.

O Que É a Literatura Apocalíptica Post longo (e com referências!) no LLL sobre o assunto.

May
4th

Sun

Uncanny valley of the dolls The complete set of videos of a lecture about the psychology of the uncanny valley.

Apr
25th

Fri

I'm on the drug that killed Paul Erdős Modafinil for scientists and how to be a responsible drug user.

Apr
23rd

Wed

Campaigning in the World of Warcraft Do WoW players have no humor?