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Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

This is an oldie-but-goodie: Guy Steele’s “Growing a Language” talk from OOPSLA 1998.
It is amazing to me that Guy, whose is something of a legend in language design, and who thinks so clearly about what makes a good language, was also key in designing Java. Java has been extremely slow to grow in the sense […]

YouTube Scalability Talk

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Cuong Do of YouTube / Google recently gave a Google Tech Talk on scalability.
I found it interesting in light of my own comments on YouTube’s 45 TB a while back.
Here are my notes from his talk, a mix of what he said and my commentary:
In the summer of 2006, they grew from 30 million pages […]

Pipe RGB data to ffmpeg

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

A while back I asked on the ffmpeg mailing list, how to pipe RGB data in to ffmpeg. I described it as follows:
in my code I am building video frames, 720×480×24bit. I have in mind generating a large number of these, as long as a full DVD worth at 30fps, then using ffmpeg (followed by […]

TEDTalks - Ideas Worth Spreading - Video Worth Watching

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

TED is an annual conference at which a bunch of (hopefully?) remarkable people say remarkable things. I’m using the word in a Seth Godin sort of way: remarkable things are those which inspire people to literally remark about them.
It appears to be “A-list” event, meaning that I’m not likely to make the cut anytime soon.
Fortunately, […]

Linus Torvalds explains distributed source control

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

On several occasions over the last year, I’ve pointed out that distributed source control tools are dramatically better than centralized tools. It’s quite hard for me to explain why. This is probably because of sloppy and incomplete thinking on my part, but it doesn’t help that most of the audiences / people I’ve said this […]

Excellent JavaScript talk from Yahoo

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Over at Yahoo Video you can watch an excellent talk by Doug Crockford on JavaScript (part 1). (part 2, part 3, part 4) This is likely the best introduction to JavaScript I have seen, and worthwhile even if you’ve been using JS for years.
Why does JavaScript matter?
1) It is ubiquitous now (in nearly every […]