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Ashlar and Assumptions
by Robert FischerIn my free time this summer, as a counter-balance to the pastoral/ministerial work I was doing, I’ve cranked on a programming language called “Ashlar”. It’s still just getting started, but a big hurdle has been crossed: the runtime is up and running, and the compiler infrastructure is in place.
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So soon we forget
by Brian HurtThe first thing to remember is that the main difference between what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we did to Tokyo, or what Japan did to China (see “The Rape of Nanking”) or the Philippines, or what we did to Dresden, or what Germany did to Coventry or Leningrad or Moscow, or what Russia did to Berlin, etc., etc. was how cheap it was.
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Steve Yegge is an idiot
by Brian HurtAnd to think, I used to have respect for the man. Then he goes and posts this pile of fetid dingo kidneys. I’m going to explain in detail why ditching private (and, by extension, public) is bad. Obviously this needs to be spelled out, because a lot of programmers- including Steve Yegge – don’t get it.
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And….fail.
by Robert FischerOkay, so this is some serious failage on a website.
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Dear deficit “hawks”: bite me
by Brian HurtHere’s the problem I have with the recent furor over the deficit and the debt: my long term memory still works.
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