As not to give false ideas of what this post is about, let's lay it out up front. I'm going to show you how to be able to get work done in emacs. You're not going to be an emacs guru after reading this. You're not even going to be as productive as possible. That being said, you will be able to accomplish your work as well as you could as a mid-level vim user. ...

Here’s a paper I wrote recently with Martin Sulzmann and Edmund Lam: Comparing the performance of concurrent linked-list implementations in Haskell (to be presented at DAMP’09). The basic idea is to analyse the performance and scaling characteristics of the various concurrency synchronisation methods available in GHC: STM, MVars, and IORef with atomicModifyIORef, by using each of these to implement a concurrent linked-list abstraction. The bottom line is that we found two orders of magnitude differences ...

فکر کنم یکی دو ساعتی میشد خوابیده بودم یکی از دوستام زنگ زد بهم که پوریا دوس‌دخترم فکر کنم سرطان سینه گرفته همین الان احساس کردم تو سینه‌ سمت راستش یه غده هستش حالا چیکار کنم؟

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The image above comes from a London art exhibit, Splatter, which we reported here last month. The show has now closed (yesterday was the last day) but in case you missed it, artist James Cauty has posted several pics from the opening and slashfilm.com has posted several more. And if that isn’t enough, Cauty is selling exclusive merchandise here. My only question: is this stuff authorized by Warner Bros.? (Thanks, Steve Gordon)

Nearly 60% of LinkedIn users have high personal incomes and hold executive-level or consultant positions, and those who are decision-makers in their jobs are more likely to be active networkers, according to a survey of members of the professional networking site conducted by LinkedIn, Anderson Analytics and software partner SPSS. The first-ever survey of LinkedIn [...]

As most of you know, I draw a comic featuring a guy who inexplicably has no mouth, who lives with a cartoon dog that inexplicably has no mouth. And I end up with Spasmodic Dysphonia, a condition that prevents me from speaking.Today in the news, the author of the book "100 Things to Do Before You Die" died at the age of 47 after hitting his head at home. That probably wasn't on the list.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_en_ot/obit_freemanAlso ...