I’m working through ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham right now (book review on Monday), and I found this little chestnut: Experienced Lisp programmers work bottom-up as well as top-down. While they’re writing their program down towards the language, they also build the language up toward their program.This way, language and program meet sooner, and [...]
The Background On June 26th, ICANN decided that the world needs more top-level domain names. Instead of the big three: .com, .org, and .net, we can now look forward to top-level domains such as .pepsi, .nyc, and .travel. This plan wasn’t forged from malice. There are quite a few benefits to the proposal. For example, [...]
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]
