Interview with Cox & Forkum

Via LGF, check out this interview with Cox & Forkum that also showcases a bunch of their (fantastic) work.

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Exegesis 6

Via use Perl, the crazy genius that is Damien Conway has just released Exegesis 6.

This Exegesis explores the new subroutine semantics described in Apocalypse 6. Those new semantics greatly increase the power and flexibility of subroutine definitions, providing required and optional formal parameters, named and positional arguments, a new and extended operator overloading syntax, a far more sophisticated type system, multiple dispatch, compile-time macros, currying, and subroutine wrappers.

Discussion on LtU.

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Comparison of compression formats

While using 7-zip the other day, I did an informal comparison of every compression format 7-zip supports. While the 7-zip format compresses the best, it also takes the longest to compress. What really surprised me was that bzip compression was by far the fastest, and 7-zip only had slightly better compression than it. Bzip also has much better compression than normal zip, and it compressed much faster than zip. I'm wondering how much of the slowness of the algorithms is incidental, due to 7-zip's implementation, and how much of it is fundamental to the algorithms. As for decompression, zip was by far the fastest, with 7-zip coming in a few seconds behind, and bzip taking roughly twice as long as 7-zip.

However, my comparison might be a bad one, since I was only compressing one 30 meg tar file. For multiple files, or different types of data, its possible the algorithms would show different behavior, though it doesn't seem like that should make that much of a difference.

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12:50 (utc-4)
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The Ultimate Weblogging System

Looks like I have URLs worthy of The Ultimate Weblogging System

I'll consider using dashes more often, based on his suggestion.

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12:02 (utc-4)

 

The perils of shared servers

It bugs me that we have people like this writing code that (potentially) has to run on the same server as mine. Sigh.

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11:58 (utc-4)

 

Movie takeback

I said before that there haven't been any good movies lately with the exception of Finding Nemo. This just reminded me, Bruce Almightly was a surprisingly good flick.

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