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I really like the look of Doug Landauer's site. I found it because he left a comment on my page. Thanks.
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I'm currently taking a look at wxWindows. I eventually want to see if I can get PythonCard running on my Mac and it uses wxWindows. I'm also thinking of playing directly with the wxWindows API. Might be kind of fun.
comment () 10:45:49 PM
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That's funny. My weblog is the 28th item on Google for the search "sabre tooth tiger". What's really funny is that they are really called sabre tooth cats.
comment () 9:54:34 PM
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So, as the previous post shows (of course) I can embed the image right in my post. Without using the picture tool that comes with Radio. I think I like this way better.
comment () 8:52:44 PM
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I really hate the www at the beginning of some web addresses. I don't see the point. In the previous post I put the URL http://lua.org without testing it and of course it doesn't work. I needed to add www to the beginning. But that www was just some graduate student's bright idea to differentiate the web server from the ftp server from the mail server. We don't need that distinction anymore. Or if we do, I don't want to know about it. I just want to type the important stuff and have it work.
comment () 12:49:33 PM
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Idel: An interesting virtual machine with the property that the running state of the machine can be saved to an object file and resumed on another "machine" (virtual or otherwise). I've always been interested in virtual machines and programming languages ever since I wrote my own Scheme implementation. It was a blast. But that was a long time ago. More recently I've had this idea to do something like Parrot: a virtual machine upon which higher level languages could be built. I'm a big fan of Lua, but one thing I don't like is the authors' insistance that the VM be undocuments. I understand their reasons, but I'd like to do something different. A completely documented VM upon which a language like Lua (or any other high-level language) could be built. Ultimately, the compiler for the higher-level language should be written in the machine code of the VM itself. Then the VM would be the only thing that would need to be ported to support those higher-level languages. Oops. That sounds like Java :) I don't plan to write Java. I want my VM to be language-agnostic. I don't want to imagine the language before I've written the VM.
comment () 12:44:55 PM
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"I didn't realize that by starting a weblog I'd be given automatic membership in a mutual admiration society." [Jonathon Delacour]
I've been worrying about Dvorak's words myself. Thinking about what I see on weblogs, I realized that webloggers are usually not critical of each other. As OnePotMeal (got that link from Jonathon's page, just to get the attribution right) points out however, it isn't that webloggers aren't critical. They are. But they aren't mean. Dvorak wants mean because that's how he is. Webloggers are critical thinkers but easy to get along with. That's a feature of weblogs over, say, forums. Flame wars frequently erupt in a forum. But a forum is a conversation between many people. Fights start often in that kind of environment. A weblog, on the other hand, is one person's creation, even if it is a response to something else on the web. I sure don't want to dirty my creation with a bunch of anger.
comment () 8:58:53 AM
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Am I being dishonest when I don't fully attribute my links? That last post comes from a story I found following a link on Scripting News. But instead of attributing Scripting News, I followed the link and cut Scripting News out. What if I follow a link, that takes me to another link, that leads me to something interesting. Should I attribute all of the links along the way?
comment () 8:44:37 AM
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I have to agree with this assessment of Mac OS X. It is rock solid. And that's what counts in the end. It has a ways to go before it is as refined as Mac OS 9. But I'm betting Apple is committed to perfecting it. Mac OS X is Apple's future and a bright future it is.
comment () 8:40:07 AM
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Day Three of TheBeard™. Can't really see it at all, unless you're right next to me. I've got my doubts this is every going to work.
comment () 8:24:08 AM
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RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues [Slashdot]: I think the recording industry really missed an opportunity to change the way it does business. They should have realized that people like to download and share music and they should have figured out a way to take advantage of that. Instead, they killed Napster and now people go elsewhere. They'll never kill it and now they can't join it either.
comment () 8:03:17 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Will Leshner.
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