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Yay, Justice! 22 Aug 2013 | 01:57 pm
http://i.imgur.com/otQcAz9.jpg http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/bradley-mannings-sentence-is-excessive.html?_r=0 Andrew
Are you 'my MP'? How do I express anger at the UK govt? 19 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
[I emailed the UK Ambassador in Chile. Had no response yet. Will update here if I do, but won't post any (preumably private) reply.] Hi Jon, I'm an ex-pat, living here in Chile. I enjoyed the interv...
Julia 19 Aug 2013 | 02:39 am
I'm reading about Julia - http://docs.julialang.org It's fast (LLVM JIT). It's got multiple dispatch by type (and optional type annotations / assertions). Clear, well-defined scoping. Coroutines. Abs...
Dispatch by Type in C (C11 _Generic) 17 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Huh. So C11 supports dispatch by type. It's hidden behind a macro called _Generic which lets you define a set of cases. More info at http://www.robertgamble.net/2012/01/c11-generic-selections.html T...
Herbie Hancock (and Zakir Hussain), Santiago 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
[Edited to fix typo in title; sorry] Last night we went to see Herbie Hancock, whose 2013 tour includes S America. It was pretty damn good. As you might imagine, given Hancock's age and history, thi...
How To Enter Teatro Caupolican 15 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
Teatro Caupolican, in Santiago, San Diego 850, just to the south of the city centre, is a mid-sized (4,500 seats) theatre. It's big enough for a famous group, but small enough that everyone sees the s...
Two Good Jazz Books 14 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Thought I'd mentioned the first of these here before, but I can't find anything - Miles Davis's autobiography is as good as everyone says. The other recommendation is newer - Marc Myers's Why Jazz Ha...
16bit CRC Algorithms 31 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
Wow, there is a pile of misinformed crap out there on the internet! If you need to implement a 16bit CRC algorithm, this is an excellent reference: http://www.barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/How-To/C...
Hyperloop, Waves, and Unexciting Reality 29 Jul 2013 | 01:18 am
There's been some discussion on HN and blogs about Hyperloop: http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/ http://conscience...
Narrative and Memory 28 Jul 2013 | 10:52 pm
[This is about software development, not MS or Literature...] Recovery from an MS outbreak is very slow - I am still getting better after 8 months. It's also intermittent and inconsistent - there are...
