PUBLIC MARKS with search lists

Many of my friends — technically knowledgeable, demanding email users — use and love Gmail. None of them use Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. Raw user count is the wrong metric; Gmail has already won.

Moi aussi j'utilise Gmail, tous mes abonnements aux mailing-lists et les inscriptions aux sites avec peu de valeur ajoutée. Etant donné que Gmail ne permet pas de trier ces mails, et qu'il est sujet aux faux positifs dans le filtrage des spams, c'est à peu près tout ce qu'on peut lui confier de sérieux.

Google is like Apple in this way. It starts by taking over the premium end of a market.

Bien d'accord, Google a pris le premium des boîtes mail poubelle. Je n'utilise plus jetable.org ni mailinator.com : Gmail fournit un service identique.

command line parsing done right

Finaloption is a command line parser, intended to make writing command line applications easy and painless. It uses built-in Python types (lists, dictionaries, etc) to define options, which makes configuration clear and concise. Additionally it contains possibility to handle subcommands (i.e. hg commit or svn update).

We Value:

Validated Data over Expert Opinion

Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collection

Complete Workflows over Long Feature Lists

Achieving Results over Writing Reports

Collaborative Design over Design by Referendum or Design by Fiat

Ease of Use over Ease of Coding

Well-designed Critical and Common Workflows over Complete Coverage of Every Possible Workflow

As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we show that two features of functional languages in particular, higher-order functions and lazy evaluation, can contribute greatly to modularity. As examples, we manipulate lists and trees, program several numerical algorithms, and implement the alpha-beta heuristic (an algorithm from Artificial Intelligence used in game-playing programs). Since modularity is the key to successful programming, functional languages are vitally important to the real world.

resources below in what I perceive to be lightest to deepest engagement — publications and blogs, books, local events, organizations, mailing lists, webinars, workshops, conferences, and schooling.

The exhibition takes its name from an essay by Walter Benjamin, who writes about the memories sparked by the act of unpacking his collection of books after having them stored in boxes for two years. While Benjamin speaks as a collector and looks at books as objects tied to their owner, these architects will be speaking about the ideas found in the books and the influence on their own work. As someone who reads voraciously, I'm most interested by the recommendations, something that also occurs at the Storefront for Art and Architecture's curated micro-bookshop. Hopefully MAS will provide more online content for the exhibition, such as these lists, as it should be interesting to see any overlap between architects (if any) and to discover some lesser-known gems.