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Archive for January, 2012
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!‘ (‘I found it!’) but rather ‘hmm….that’s funny…’” – Isaac Asimov I had that very experience this evening. It’s funny what gives you insight, what makes you understand. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the whole idea […]
25Jan
Ghost of Done: How Backbone and RDFa are incompatible, and a Grand Unified Theory thereof.
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Last night, I was working on a little demonstration project, teaching myself the intricacies of Backbone/CouchDB interaction. I wrote my first CouchDB views and figured out what they’re for, which is a massive step toward world domination and all that. I was working on the retrieval layer, and thinking about the create/update features, when I […]
This morning, I had an attack of SRMD, aka “Mad Scientist’s Disease.” Many moons ago, I admired a lovely little program called ToneMatrix by Andre Michelle. I had Flash envy hard after seeing it, and I wanted to figure out if it was possible to make such a thing using only HTML. Well, with the […]
So, I’ve been working my way through Learn You A Haskell For Great Good, and in chapter five there’s a quicksort example that reads: quicksort [] = [] quicksort (x:xs) = let smallerOrEqual = [a | a
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