A few people have commented about Yojimbo, including Brent, who gives it a place in his dock. His post has some good points in the comments thread. I’ve already paid for VoodooPad, and put a lot of my brain in there, so I’m not moving my notes anywhere soon. This is a good point to [...]
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File: January 2006
I mentioned that I’d post about some of the papers I found interesting from this year’s PLDI conference. Disclaimer: for the most part this is based on reading the abstracts only, so this shouldn’t be considered a thorough review. Session one is Transactions. I will probably look through these, especially the first paper, “The Atomos [...]
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The technical program for PLDI 2006 is out now – there are certainly a lot of interesting papers in there. I’m looking through them now and will probably comment on a few of the ones I think are cool in another post. PLDI is traditionally a very competitive conference with an emphasis on experimental results, [...]
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Like most students, I’ve been asked to review papers in my area (and a few that were pretty far outside it), and I always try to do a good job – this is definitely a golden-rule situation. If I don’t take it seriously, I am absolutely convinced that karma will get me in the end, [...]
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Maybe it’s a little dramatic to think of it this way, but it has seemed like I have two computing personalities – the one that writes here about Macs, user-app programming and interfaces, goes to WWDC and hangs out with indie developers, and then the other one that actually gets paid – a Ph.D. candidate [...]
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There are a couple minor improvements in the pipeline, but I wanted to get a universal binary version of the I-Search plugin out before you noticed that it wasn’t universal already. It’s the same as the last version, just twice as fat. Get it here. Next up for this project is to move it to [...]
This problem comes up occasionally – I want to send some large files (hundreds of megabytes) to someone else. They’re too big for email, I don’t want to share them with the world, can’t just burn a DVD, and neither of us has a computer that is constantly connected to the internet. I usually resort [...]
New Powerbooks, whatever they call them. I’m not sure I’ll be able to say “MacBook Pro” without a self-conscious wince. 4x faster is a nice number – the memory bandwidth numbers (6.3x faster) are certainly impressive. I’ll have to avoid using one so I don’t start hating my 1.25Ghz G4. A little disappointed that there’s [...]
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Quick note – I tried to build a universal binary version of Blapp because I thought it’d be simple, but I forgot it uses a library that is built with autoconf, and apple’s basic transition instructions for autoconf projects didn’t fly in 2 minutes, so I gave up for now.
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I bought three new albums with my iTunes gift card this Christmas, and I thought I’d share how they’ve turned out so far: Takk… by Sigur Rós. I bought this because I liked their last album, the parentheses one, and because John Allison’s hilarious year end album review seemed to imply it was more of [...]