News You Can Bruise for 2000 June 7

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 02:56:

I put up (a slightly edited version of) an email from foaf regarding how software development works in the real world.

I know I shouldn't be awake right now, but I am.

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 03:02:

My latest KatzDot: Open Source Sex - It's About Time

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 04:31:

Jake on lutefisk. Jake, it might be better for you if you don't read about the preparation of the lutefisk.

Eating lutefisk for Christmas seems to me like eating unleavened bread for Passover, except that unleavened bread can be made appetizing.

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 10:50:

a < b < c works. It was actually pretty easy, because what I did was sneak in before outputting the assembler code and change a < b < c to a < b && b < c, which the compiler already knows how to output as assembler. Still to do: operations on whole arrays and string comparisons.

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 14:54:

Cyborg lampreys! In what other field are new developments described as "laudably perverse"?

Permalink [No comments] Wed Jun 07 2000 18:32:

My grade on the semantic analyzer: 84. Average grade: 36.4. I kick ass! I don't quite understand the syntax of my grade email, though. I get five points off for "infinite loop" (when?) and after the list of test cases my analyzer failed on it says EXITS 09. Why, Spock, why?