Recentlog
- slef,
in writing “your country continues to turn into Big
Brother”, talks about Labour's apparently hostility to civil
liberties.
I
commented there this topics reminded me of Chris Lightfoot (born 1978, died 2007); I have to say
thinking of Chris now makes me feel quite sad. I've never had such a
connection to someone I
haven't met face-to-face: I had an email exchange with him
—following
some issues I found in the construction his excellent Political
Compass—
on the whole idea of using the internet to conduct lightweight opinion polls,
and
on what kind of statistical methodology they required. Chris was a very
substantial person, both very politically engaged and deeply committed to
getting to the truth. The world is a poorer place for his death.
- wingo, in dynamic dispatch: a followup, writes that
The salient point is that in latent-typed languages, all of the
static type analysis techniques that we know are insufficient. Only runtime
analysis and runtime recompilation can capture the necessary information for
efficient compilation.
I'd like to return to this claim in a future post; suffice it for now to say that,
for a sufficiently knowledgeable group contained in "we", I doubt that this is
true.
- kgb wrote a diary entry, which
was a
perfectly decent diary entry. It wasn't on my recentlog because, for some
reason, his
account appears to mine with rating 2.1. I'll add his diary separately to my
RSS feeder; I'd like to find why he's rated so low, since this seems to be a
concrete case where Advogato's diary rating machinery has failed.
This edition of
Recentlog introduces a new format for linking to old
advogato diary entries. Hope you like it.