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I’m beginning to teach myself Haskell, because we all have to. I started doing the 99 Haskell problems and came across a beautifully cunning solution to problem 6, “Find out whether a list is a palindrome.” Let’s first look at … Weiterlesen →

I’m pretty new to make so maybe the following is trivial and/or horribly bad practice, but here goes: I have this bunch of output directories, each containing a file called en.tok from which I want to make a corrected version, … Weiterlesen →

Here’s examples from my actual code of five lesser-known Java features, in increasing order of how much fun I had discovering they exist. Anonymous classes These are fairly well-known, so let’s go for a freaky example – an anonymous class … Weiterlesen →

Yesterday I looked at recent trends in the development of computer desktop environments and noted that the traditional desktop (+ windows + panels + menus) metaphor is being abandoned in favor of a simpler “one thing is on screen at … Weiterlesen →

Once upon a time, when computer operating systems learned to multi-task, their basic user interfaces started to reflect this ability: applications now ran simultaneously in a number of windows that could be freely opened, closed, moved around and resized on … Weiterlesen →