Lex Spoon

Guy Steele ruminated a few weeks ago about run-time types : When Bill Joy and I were working on The Java Language Specification 14 years ago...

Today's browser oddity is that Chrome instantly fails a script tag download if the requested URL has already failed a couple of times. ...

"Microsoft lost a patent case involving a company called I4i in May, after a jury ruled that Microsoft infringed one of i4i's paten...

Matt Mastracci has done some experimentation and found that most browsers provide some callback or another for indicating that a script tag...

Guy Steele has written an interesting post about tail calls being needed to implement certain object-oriented designs : In this blog post we...

I mentioned there is a second issue I'd like to raise about the leaked emails between Phil Jones and Michael Mann: how can scientific t...

The recently leaked emails between Phil Jones and Michael Mann raise a number of issues about scientific progress. I'd like to address ...