Lex Spoon

I'm Lex Spoon, a software enthusiast living in Atlanta, GA. I write on Substack and on my home page in addition to here.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

DLL hell as a job description

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I've had a hard time explaining my views on package distribution. Let me try and wrap it up this way: DLL hell is a job description. D...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Public access to publicly funded research

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Bravo to those supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act . If it becomes law, then publications resulting from publicly funded rese...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Exclusively live code

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Dead-for-now code splitting has the compiler divide up the program into smaller fragments of code that can be downloaded individually. How...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Microsoft sticks to their guns on synchronous code loading

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Microsoft's Doloto has been reannounced, and it sounds like they are planning to stick to synchronous code loading: Profiling informat...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Ethics oversight of computer science research

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Most people wouldn't be aware, but in American universities, computer science research gets substantial oversight to ensure projects tre...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Daily life of Swedes and Danes

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Bryan Caplan's impressions about Danes and Swedes generally match mine about Danes and Swiss. One of the most striking things about Den...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Optimizing not just for size, but compressed size

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Ray Cromwell has come up with a new optimization goal for a compiler , and two examples of it: I was drawn to a reversible transform the bro...
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