Archiv der Kategorie: Technik

Palindrome

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

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Technischer Rückschritt

Wehmütig blicke ich auf manche technische Errungenschaft vergangener Jahrzehnte zurück, die die Menschheit inzwischen schon lange verloren hat und vielleicht nie wieder zurückerlangen wird. Da ist zum Beispiel die Möglichkeit, am Anrufbeantworter (heute: Voicemail) einzustellen, wie oft er es klingeln … Weiterlesen

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Programming Tweets of 2011

February The new Twitter takes the “eventually consistent” principle of NoSQL very seriously: the data displayed is consistent on Judgement Day. March “We cannot predict whether such a query will timeout every time. This will be learned heuristically between keyboard … Weiterlesen

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Unconditionally Make Implicit Prerequisites

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

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My Debian Initiation

Having switched from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze and pondering ways to combine the security of a largely stable operating system with the additional functionality afforded by individual newer software packages, I recently wondered: Apt pinning seems complicated, why not just … Weiterlesen

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Unicode Man

Holy shit, this is awesome: <deep portentous voice used for film trailers>When the fight for internationalisation hots up, mild mannered web developer Martin Sammtleben becomes Unicode Man, defender of diacritics, champion of challenging codepoints. Faced with an ASCII-fixated enemy, Unicode … Weiterlesen

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Highbrow Java

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

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Developments in Desktop Environments, Part 2: The Glorious Future

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

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Developments in Desktop Environments, Part 1: The Awkward Present

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

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text/html decoder

Prompted by this page. Keywords: Firefox, Ubuntu Firefox Modifications, ubufox, WTF.

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