Teach your kid programming with ants and spider webs.

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$ echo '(p34 "13 d0 c8 30 1c 9e 07 c9 60 b1 58 08")' | under -e \ > | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib under -f ~/lib/sr.conf 2>/dev/null (:otherPartySMS ["Happy 2011!" type=alphanumeric])
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I've just realized that scientific papers (e.g., on algorithms and data structures) are quite easily found with scholar.google.com. What a stupid person I was by simply googling for them!

`under' utility decodes binary DER data to S-expressions and/or encodes those back to DER.
Aren't you curious of how iteratees may look in C?
$ echo '(p1 (p2 "48 45 4c 4c 4f") (p3 ""))' | under -e | hexdump -C ( Read more... )

C programming language is not very popular nowadays.  I don't care. I like the language.
It was very interesting to learn how linked lists are implemented in the Linux kernel.  This picture illustrates them nicely:

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"The best way to evangelize your technology is to show somebody something."
Just some interesting reading, and a worthy quote, nothing more. To you, Haskell programmers and Doom fans...
[via programming subreddit]

The hypothesis behind invisible writings was laughably complicated. All books are tenuously connected through L-space and, therefore, the content of any book ever written or yet to be written may, in the right circumstances, be deduced from a sufficiently close study of books already in existence. Future books exist in potentia, ( Read more... )

The last part of the series is the shortest: I've just uploaded playlist format description and .pla files' generator to http://github.com/vvv/topla
Have fun!

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Simon Peyton-Jones gracefully shunts some haskell-cafe thread:
Friends
One of the absolutely best things about the Haskell community is that it is almost invariably respectful and usually friendly. People often remark on this when they join the community. Beginner questions are greeted with polite and helpful replies. Category theory and ( Read more... )