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Measuring Effectiveness of a Domain Specific Language

2012/04/05 · by erich · in Comp*, Ideas, Language

Also, at CGO I met Hassan Chafi, who is working on a graph-based Domain Specific Language. Even though I never seem to find time that I can explicitly devote to studying them, DSL’s are, to me, an compulsively fascinating topic….

Experience, CGO 2012

2012/04/04 · by erich · in Ideas, Language, People, Self, Tech*

I attended CGO 2012. The speakers were universally boring, but the conversations that you have with other attendees can be quite interesting. For example, I have been thinking that the hodge-podge babel of languages that makes up web applications should…

Express yourself: to the compiler and to your fellow developer.

2012/04/04 · by erich · in Comp*, Ideas, Language, Self

The keynote speaker at CGO 2012 (Chris Lattner, LLVM) put some crazy thoughts into my head. Want compiler to know about: memory disjointness aliasing Usage of data structures (array of struct vs struct of arrays) whether arithmetic is done on…

Thoughts on Hugo’s Thought Experiment

2012/04/01 · by erich · in Economics, Ideas, People

Dear Hugo Salinas Price, In your article, Second Thoughts on the ‘Thought Experiment, you raised a sequence of 5 items which together form an objection which led you to believe that the Thought Experiment had to “go back to the…

Anarchism in Iceland

2012/03/26 · by erich · in Idiocracy

Just read this interesting post[Polycentric Order: First Draft of Anarchic Iceland] about Icelandic history. Apparently, from 930 CE to 1096 CE, they had a tribal form of government with no really official rules. Just that the chieftans met for 2…

Information Uncertainty Principle

2012/03/25 · by erich · in Comp*, Ideas, Physics

Through Denning’s Presentation Great Principles of Computing I heard of this fascinating tale regarding Buridan’s ass. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since…

Why Grading Sucks

2012/03/21 · by erich · in Education, Mind/Cognition, Observations, Self

It’s not just that the student provided solutions are unexpectedly “creative” and don’t fit the designed rubric. Nor that they make you wonder “Why am I even trying?”. Nor that they invoke thoughts such as “How did we ever make…

Segregate Third-Party JS Libraries

2012/03/12 · by erich · in Comp*, Ideas, Information Flow

Typically, web authors simply load whatever library they’d like to use with full trust. In JS, such loading amounts essentially to a #include. I’m flabbergasted that this practice remains normal. It could be paranoia, but even without invoking all the…

Editor Wars

2012/03/08 · by erich · in Language, Punditry

Normally, I use vi for most of my editing work. But, I’ve been hearing much about emacs and its ability to do a better job at syntax highlighting, code completion, spell checking, even a writegood-mode for detecting passive voice. Emacs…

Illegal Everything

2012/03/03 · by erich · in Idiocracy

John Stossel (I’m really starting to like this guy) recently did an episode titled “Illegal Everything” in which he make the following observations/arguments: Legalizing drugs does not lead to more use, but does lead to less violence. (example: Portugal, as…

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