I was zoned out for the first keynote of the morning - not enough coffee to pay attention :) I’m coming around now that Gillmor is up (looks like he’s moving his blog here soon). Heh - he’s riffed the political slogan "It’s the economy, stupid" into "It’s the Gestures, stupid". Sounds like a key point of his talk is to get a simple point across: The user community is in charge and can no longer be effectively "talked at". There was a lot of talk about that yesterday, as well.
This goes back to attention.xml (something I’ve been ignoring, truth be told), which is a technology format that can be used to track what it is that you are paying attention to. Maybe I should look at it - I’ve had people ask for that kind of personal (not necessarily shared) information gathering in BottomFeeder, as a way of helping filter what they actually read as opposed to what they subscribe to. Seems that some of the ...
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Crawling towards Past AchievementsFrom: cincomsmalltalk.com
Post Date: 2006-05-11 10:18:33
Don Box points to the new support for lambda expressions in C#:
Expression expr = a => a + 3;
Console.WriteLine(expr); // prints "a => Add(a, 3)"
Func
func = expr.Compile(); // LCG’s an MSIL method from the expr Console.WriteLine(func(4)); // prints "7"
Yes, it’s nice that Microsoft has added this to C# - it gets them up to Lisp and Smalltalk levels of technology, only a few decades late :)
Personally, I fi...
more Speaking of Math...From: cincomsmalltalk.com
Post Date: 2006-05-11 07:54:36
Lee Gomes of the WSJ reports on the TopCoder contest, and comes to this conclusion:
The results have been carefully tabulated by a computer and, thus, are beyond dispute: Of the 48 best computer programmers in the world, only four of them are Americans. But what that bit of data says about the state of the U.S. education system is open to debate. Hmm. So Lee, if I set up an online survey, can I take those results as representative? What you have here is a self selecting pool of respond...
more No more appointment viewingFrom: cincomsmalltalk.com
Post Date: 2006-05-11 05:08:27
Once you have a DVR, it becomes irresistible. In fact, getting a second (or more) suddenly seems reasonable. We now have 4 devices recording various things for us:
2 ReplayTV devices
1 Media Center PC1 HD capable DVR from the cable company
Decadent as that sounds, they come in handy. There are nights when multiple things we watch air at the same time, and we have them picked up by one of those devices. The Replay TVs are the nicest ones; we can stream between rooms, and...
more ResurgenceFrom: cincomsmalltalk.com
Post Date: 2006-05-12 14:25:09
It’s starting to look like a board game renaissance . Can Smalltalk be far behind :)
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