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Someone else with the disease. 🙂
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Nice Quora question about code at early Google. What I take away from these stories is that pushing out ugly prototypes of your products will not prevent you from building a world-class engineering organization in the future.
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Bloody hell, Prolog can be frustrating sometimes!!!!
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Doh! I may have been a bit previous in saying that I’d got the hang of Prolog syntax.
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Prolog Error Messages
Awesome response from SWI-Prolog when you just query an unbound variable. 🙂 ?- X. % … 1,000,000 ………… 10,000,000 years later % % >> 42
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Wow! Playing with Prolog at the moment. It’s awesome. I seem to have finally achieved some kind of fluency instead of fumbling around without knowing how to drive the thing. It probably helps that Erlang has accustomed me to the syntax and other conventions.
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At Aharon’s prompting I had a play with node.js over the weekend. It is very good. I can see why it’s “the next BIG thing”. (See the nice starter tutorial with a very impressive minimal twitter reader.) Trying to think of something fun to do with node.js now. Also, what with getting into Urbi, “events”…
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Resolver Systems have a new “cloud-based” pythonic spreadsheet called “Project Dirigible“
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Urbi is a great, parallel, event driven language for programming robots.Watch the tutorial video. Absolutely packed with interesting control structures to handle the implicit parallelism and event-driven nature of the language. Several important ideas : free subsumption architecture (you actually run many different programs in parallel, each dealing with certain motors and sensors, but interacting…
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An idea for an Android GUI designer. Interesting to see the state of the art here. It’s an improvement on XML … but still, not as far forward as you’d hope.