First, for xwjl. Thanks for a good old late night talking/hacking session that could not have been more timely. Let’s do it more often! There is much work to be done on the masterpiece:
And next, for Mom. Thank you for being aware, in touch, and supportive as you always have been. [...]
The du command always takes forever. Couldn’t the filesystem cache size information and lazily bubble it up the tree so that it can report disk usage faster?
Over the holidays, I went home and spent time with family. We played some games, one of which was Risk. You may recall that this game can get quite slow and tedious when armies and battles get big. Remembering this, I sat down and wrote the javascript risk dice roller and [...]
graph [scroll down] is a small ocaml program that me and a coworker wrote. It graphs data coming down standard in, on your terminal! It’s like, really trivial and yet so useful.
One catch: it currently doesn’t support negative numbers properly. I’d love to see a patch that made it do [...]
Lately I’ve been into challenging myself by setting arbitrary rules for my behavior, usually for a one-month period. The idea is to learn or grow through this exercise. Some things I’ve tried so far:
Going vegetarian for a month. This didn’t feel all that enlightening at the time, but for other reasons I’ve [...]
http://osp2007.janestcapital.com/
Like, duh.
I’m sure this idea isn’t original. It’s too obvious. In fact, I’d bet money that somebody is already doing it.
Consolidate the social networks. Write a nice abstract social network layer, and connect all the data into one large, meta, …social internet.
Wired predicts that in 2007, if this doesn’t happen, the social networks [...]
usbcell is now available in the US. w00t!
let () =
Arg.parse specl anonfun usage_msg;
match List.rev !anonargs with
| [] -> Arg.usage specl usage_msg; exit 1
| args ->
begin
match !conf with None -> () | Some conf -> do_config conf;
let string = "world" in
printf "hello %s\n%!" string;
end
In this day and age, it seems insane that so common a program would have such a bug. Arbitrary code execution, just by opening a tar archive?
It’s time to rewrite gnu in a real programming language!