Well, I have long been wanting to get away from Wordpress and begin to blog again a little more. I have decided to use Octopress, if it does not do what I need (like typeset maths etc), then hopefully I can fix it. I can write posts in Emacs and only »
A few months ago I reread Simon Peyton Joneses article on STM in the Beautiful Code book and decided to try and translate it into clojures STM See the paper here He says ‘Atomic blocks as we have introduced them so far are utterly inadequate to coordinate »
This year I did the Facebook Hacker Cup again. I didn’t do as well as last year, only getting to the first round and solving just one problem. It was interesting and fun though. I was in position 1952 of about 10,000 with 877 people solving more problems »
Whenever typed a command that didn’t exist on some of our servers I got the following: $ poop Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug Please include the following information »
It annoys me when sometimes a solution to a 4clojure problem gets a bit long to type and test in the little edit box. As they say it is not an IDE, and doesn’t try to be, so I wrote a little app that fetches the problems down via the api and wraps the »
Well, I guess this could be considered an early 2012 retrospective as this is my first blog post this year (so much for the goal of doing one a week, a goal I am not sure is actually all that worthy to be honest) Firstly, about the 101 goals in 1001 »