davidad

18-year-old Ph.D. student at MIT,
studying the nature of human cognition through programming language theory;
amateur photographer and musician

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The Case of the 500-Mile Email

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.
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GNU libc: System V contexts

So apparently the C language includes continuations. This is totally awesome.
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Swiftweasel

Score 1 for Arch Linux. It’s like Firefox, but fast.
Posted in unix arch
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Zenity is a tool that allows you to display Gtk+ dialog boxes[…]It comes from the same family as dialog, Xdialog, and cdialog, but it surpasses those projects by having a cooler name.
— http://freshmeat.net/projects/zenity
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