“A wrist friendly language for the CLI”
Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility.
This is pretty slick. A simple ‘scripting’ language that can interface Mono.
I noticed Pete did this over at /dev/null/ and I thought it was a cool idea; so, here are the top search terms from the month of May that steered folks to this site:
A bill establishing an official poet laureate in Minnesota met a tragic fate.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty penned the fatal verse when he vetoed the bill. The Republican governor took the action Friday but didn’t announce it until Tuesday.
“Even though we have a state ‘folklorist,’ I also have concern this will lead to calls for other similar positions,” Pawlenty wrote in letter accompanying the veto. “We could also see requests for a state mime, interpretive dancer or potter.”
Pawlenty is so cultured. Comparing poetry to street mimes. That is awesome! Yes, poetry really serves no purpose other to fill the coffers of pan-handlers. Who needs poetry? Blah! Poetry is lame. What has poetry ever accomplished anyway? It’s not like poetry has ever had any meaningful impact on society. Like in affecting public policy, or opinion. If anything, I would say mimes have contributed more to society.
The game is simple. Once players get within about 30 feet of each other, they can shock other players by pressing buttons located in their headband. Those around them get a jolt of between 80 and 120 volts, depending on their distance from the button-presser.
Suhweet! I can’t wait to sign up at my local Parks and Rec.
“It gets, like, really painful,” said [the creator] … who admits he’s been shaking a lot more since he started experimenting with the game.
As of last Friday, Wikipedia started using Mono for indexing and searching the Wikipedia, it was tested first on one server and it is now being used on all three servers.
Wikipedia’s search backend uses Mono and dotLucense, the same search backend that is used by Beagle Desktop Search. Previously, Wikipedia had been using GCJ and Lucene to do the searches but after some tuning, Mono became the new engine.
Mono 1.1.6 which was the originally tested configuration was slow, but version 1.1.7 introduced our simplified IO layer which improved IO performance significantly (2x-3x) and upcoming versions will an extra boost on IO, but most importantly the regular expression library (which MediaWiki uses) will also get a performance boost.
Mono: Debian and Ubuntu.Mono is now on Debian/Unstable.
What makes a city cutting-edge? And which American metropolis can rightly claim the title of top tech city? More than a year ago, a crack team of editors and researchers here at Popular Science launched an exhaustive effort to find out. We input reams of data from dozens of private and government sources, tabulated our results, and came up with … Minneapolis.
Wikipedia is in the vanguard of a whole wave of wikis built on that idea. A wiki is a deceptively simple piece of software (little more than five lines of computer code)
“Those must be some long lines.” – Urs
Science News Online, May 28, 2005
A geneticist armed with computer simulations of prehistoric populations says that only about 200 to 300 people crossed the ice age land bridge from Asia to become the founding population of North America. Of that pioneering group, there were just 70 adults of reproductive age, contends Jody Hey of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.
The US military is developing miniature electronic sensors disguised as rocks that can be dropped from an aircraft and used to help detect the sound of approaching enemy combatants.
The devices, which would be no larger than a golf ball, could be ready for use in about 18 months. They use tiny silicon chips and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is so sensitive that it can detect the sound of a human footfall at 20ft to 30ft. The project is being carried out by scientists at North Dakota State University, which has licensed nano-technology processes from Alien Technology, a California-based commercial manufacturer of RFID tags for supermarkets.
The only thing surprising, to me, here is that this is being done at NDSU. What? At any rate, Sensor Networks are cool.
Police said they were searching for a gunman who ran up to a woman while she was walking her dog Monday night and grabbed the bag she was holding.
It contained poop.
Question is: whose poop was it?
Aaron Fulkerson 