Andrew's (Tumbling) Interwebdiary
A Hideous Triumph of Form and Function
AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
Although I hate how sometimes InfoQ’s articles read like commercials (and this is no exception, but at least it’s for an open source project), this article is still pretty good at explaining why I should care about Atom. Most of the things I’ve read in the past talk about blog syndication or other things for human consumption and, while important, they just don’t excite me as much.
Simple and elegant protocols that can build distributed and fault tolerant systems which can be consumed by machines as well as human-oriented clients however: oh yes…
The Comonad.Reader » Recursion Schemes: A Field Guide
Charles Petzold: The Annotated Turing
I’m about 1/3 the way through this now and I’d highly recommend it to discerning programmers everywhere.
The book gives a lot of background information that you’d not get just reading the paper by itself. Turing’s paper doesn’t start until page 64 – everything before that is an introduction to number theory (with emphasis on Cantor and Hilbert).
Setting up msttcorefonts (2.2) …
These fonts were provided by Microsoft “in the interest of cross- platform compatibility”. This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties.
You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format.
I saw this while installing the Ubuntu msttcorefonts package. I’d often wondered about how certain fonts from MS became “web safe” and I guess I have my answer.
In any event, dick move, MS! How does withholding something like fonts (especially inferior ones) make me choose Windows?