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, December 30, 2009

Run-time types

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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...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Browsers giving up on repeatedly failing script tags

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Today's browser oddity is that Chrome instantly fails a script tag download if the requested URL has already failed a couple of times. ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

More software patent extortion

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"Microsoft lost a patent case involving a company called I4i in May, after a jury ruled that Microsoft infringed one of i4i's paten...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Detecting download failures with script tags

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Matt Mastracci has done some experimentation and found that most browsers provide some callback or another for indicating that a script tag...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Tail call optimization vs. growable stacks

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Guy Steele has written an interesting post about tail calls being needed to implement certain object-oriented designs : In this blog post we...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Evaluating a scientific theory

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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...

Players make poor referees

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