The Shadow Scholar
The man who writes your students’ papers tells his storyhttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329
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View ArticleRuby: MRI WeakRefs in C
Simple patch for C WeakRefs in MRI 1.9. Should be portable to MRI 1.8.http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4168https://github.com/kstephens/ruby/commit/0942a955c649c39d3be4db13dbfb0ba...
View ArticleRuby: Thread stack leak patch accepted into REE.
This patch reduces the stack buffer memory footprint of dead Threads as early as possible, rather than waiting until the Thread can be GCed.This is applicable only to the zero-copy context switch...
View ArticlePatch: MRI 1.8.7: syck: fix buffer overflow when parsing YAML from a String.
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4493http://code.google.com/p/rubyenterpriseedition/issues/detail?id=66
View ArticleRuby: REE RUBY_HEAP allocation parameter and page alignment improvements.
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View ArticleWeapons of Mass Assignment
Diaspora: how four college students spent $200,000 in four months creating a broken Rails 3 app:http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/5/107701-weapons-of-mass-assignment/f...
View ArticleThe Most Important Book On OOP In 20 Years
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View ArticleYear Million
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View ArticleRule 110 in HTML5 + CSS3
Interesting post over at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4222http://elilies.com/rule110-full.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110Wasn’t familiar with Rule 110, but this caught my attention:...
View ArticleThe Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV
Joe Damato drills deep into the implied contracts of the MRI/C API:http://timetobleed.com/the-broken-promises-of-mrireeyarv/The need for RB_GC_GUARD(v) is probably due to faulty register spilling in...
View ArticleAlan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasn't happened yet
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View ArticleCheapAdvice
Dumb Code is Clean Code.Smart Code is Dirty Code.Advice is not Aspects.Advice is objects.Advice is dynamic.SlidesCode
View Article50th anniversary of Objects? - Alan Kay
50th anniversary of Objects? – Alan Kayhttp://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/
View ArticleJohn McCarthy: dead at 84
We can take his ideas to the stars and back again.http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-8...
View ArticleBrain simulation is the new frontier
Brain simulation research is more important than putting a man on Mars or starting wars.We will see exoscale computers simulating raw human bandwidth in within 10-15...
View ArticleCOLAs or CLOAs? : are lambda systems fundamentally simpler than object systems?
Should Combined-Object-Lambda-Architecture really be Combined-Lambda-Object-Architecture?Ian Piumarta’s IDST bootstraps a object-system, then a compiler, then a lisp evaluator. Maru bootstraps a lisp...
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