[Self] Year Of The Metal Tiger

[jhaelan]

Astute readers may have noticed a certain dearth of posting over the past fifteen months. Suffice to say, with the banking crisis and all, things have been a tad busy and any and all spare cycles have been focused on keeping me sane and solvent

Without turning this into a [Work]-related rant, I expect to shortly be on my fourth or fifth boss over

Comments

[vatine]

If you feel like stretching James Programmer Brain, have a poke at The Go Language. I am not sure it would be a good thing, but I am pretty sure it would be an interesting thing. It makes for a Most Bizarre way of writing a sieve of Erastothenes, essentially using (very lightweight) threads to implement the sieve (and, co-incidentally, actually making for a pretty efficient implementation, too).

[jhaelan]

Filed under 'future weird techy stuff' next to Befunge - I'm playing with Processing presently alongside some of Mr tufte's books

[vatine]

Cool. Go is certainly brain-breaking in interesting ways. Cheap threads is only part of it.

I mean, a language where "an acecpted good way" of sieving for primes is to do it by instantiating a thread (OK, "goroutine") for each prime found and simply filter is.. Well...

[realtan_dannan]

welcome back. the new place sounds amazing.

[jhaelan]

It is extremely funky, especially consider the rent is two-thirds previously! Will post address and links to Google Street View, etc soon and some photos once we're properly settled in

[jhaelan]

Thanks!

[d_floorlandmine]

Sounds like the unwind was well-deserved. Looking forward to seeing the photos of the new house. Keep taking care of yourself, dude.

[jhaelan]

Deserved I'm not sure about, required more like!

[jhaelan]

It's a traditional Singaporean affair. You have minimal stuff in the indoor kitchen space and make sure you can effectively hose it down and you cook in the outdoor covered space. We're probably going to cook inside - else it feels like a BBQ everyday - but likewise we're pimping for minimal fittings

[alexmc]

Can we just take it for granted that I read this and said something positive? Cheers

[jhaelan]

Definitely, sir :)

It reminds me of a RPG campaign I ran where one of the players had was unfamiliar with the culture in-game we were dealing with, though his character wasn't and his response to a particularly tight spot of diplomacy was, "I was say something witty and rakish"!