The Twit Cleaner
(notes on behavioral categorization of Twitter accounts)I don’t follow a lot of people on Twitter, but I still sometimes have trouble deciding whether the accounts I’m following are worth it. Folks...
View ArticleDead uncle Allotheria
Summaries of the rest of CCS’10 are still coming eventually, but what I want to talk about today is the Difference Engine No. 2 which I have now seen demonstrated twice: Mozilla had its annual meeting...
View ArticleClassical Mechanics Interlude: Acceleration to stop in a constant distance
Over on twitter, @MegaManSE askeddoes anyone know the equation to find the acceleration to stop a moving object in a constant distance given some random starting velocity?I didn’t, at the time, know …...
View Articleunearthed arcana (music division)
Some time ago—I don’t remember how long precisely—I started working on a mixtape. I got as far as writing down a bunch of songs in categories, and then I lost interest, and the list has been cluttering...
View Articlegit backend, hg cli
LWN has an article with a nice chunky comment thread talking about the history of DVCSes and how git has basically taken over the category. Mozilla, of course, still mostly uses Mercurial, but there’s...
View ArticleIdeas that don’t make money
The sad Internet news of this week is that the multiplayer online game/community Glitch will have to shut down next month. The announcement makes it sound like mostly a financial problem (not enough...
View ArticleAdria Richards Did Nothing Wrong
Editor’s note, 2022 November: There used to be an angry rant here. I still think Adria Richards did nothing wrong, and I think I was right to say so at the time, but I no longer think the rant itself...
View ArticleA Contest
In honor of the Feast of All Fools, and because if anyone has noticed it, they haven’t told me, I hereby announce that there is a joke in the references of my most recently published paper. Whoever...
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Redesigning Income Tax
Here is an opinionated proposal, having no chance whatsoever of adoption, for how taxes ought to be levied on income. This post was originally scheduled for Income Tax Day here in the good old U.S.A.,...
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