Brave New World

[I wrote this little silliness more than a year ago. Didn't find an appropriate time to post it (it served mostly as critique of the computerized semantics I usually like so much). Now, with Sweden (where I live) on the brink of legalizing a little Echelon of our own (or their own, as it were), it seems as good a time as any.]

.. Sometimes I wonder if what we do is just a fancy way of digging our own graves.

Echelon> Event 116822052.26#113967:
  Instant Message detected: thinking.. done (in 0.032 ms).
  Storing inferred knowledge as:
   [ foaf:mbox_sha1sum "286e3265...";
     emo:likes <urn:bbdb:1997:python> ].
  in context:
   <urn:gov:surveillance:event:116822052.26:113967>
     a :NLPResult;
     :timestamp 116822052.26032;
     :trustability 0.681132 .
  Done. Running ruleset..
   CoreBot>
     - No known subject for:
       owl:inverseFunctionalProperty
         foaf:mbox_sha1sum with "286e3265..."
       , using BNode _:a21c3dd723ffe39
       (subject of 31102 previous facts).
     - rdf:type foaf:Person inferred for _:a21c3dd723ffe39.
     - No unknown knowledge gained. Done.
   EmotionTracker>
     - increasing likability of <urn:bbdb:1997:python> .
   MicroSoftAgent>
     - increasing demand of <urn:bbdb:2006:ironpython> .
     - increasing threat of <urn:bbdb:1998:opensource> .
  Backtrack threshold at 1337
    - refactoring reasoner dependencies.. Done.
  Done (passed through 4211 reasoners).
  Done (in 0.11 ms).

Echelon> System Update:
  "Owner Change. Renaming."
  Done (in 0.002 ms).

SkyNet>

Ode To Keepers of Yaks

I am the Yak Shaver
The digression gangsta
I cannot concentrate-ah
I'm living it badd *word it up*

[there would be more verses but right now I'm off to a bookstore shopping for synonym books in urban language - on the way of course realizing I should order one online and become occupied by downloading the latest Opera to my phone so I can view the online shops better - then realizing my battery is low and divert to an electronics shop to get an USB recharger - all in due course for my promising career as a lyricist of course]

The art of Yak Shaving must never be lost to the world. It's my way of life (do the detriment of any spare time of course).

Fvyyl Indeed

Oh. My. God. I had no idea.

From now on, I shall only do pynff-based OO. Or BB, as it were.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: rot13 -*-

qrs whfg_n_fvyyl_rknzcyr():
   cevag "Bu, ubj fvyyl guvf vf.".qrpbqr('rot13')

vs __anzr__ == '__main__':
   riny('just_a_silly_example')()

Yes, it runs fine. Try it. (Note: in Vim you can use g? on selected text. Just so you know.)

Programming Languages for Cineasts

• C: Robert Duvall
• C++: Jack Nicholson
• Perl: Chuck Norris
• Python: David Hasselhoff
• Ruby: Jackie Chan
• Java: Richard Gere
• C#: Patrick Swayze

This list may be completely revised without prior notice.

.. I really need to sleep more at night. Sorry 'bout this. Or in the words of the nascent Darth Vader: Noooooooooo...

Think Outside The Box

I just realized it. The reason for the increasing popularity of dynamic languages may just be:

• Some years ago, many developers sat in front of humongous 19" CRTs and about 1600x1200 or whatnot.


• Nowadays, most of us sit with sleek notebooks with quite the lesser screen size and resolution.

Thus, it's much more of an annoyance that we have to scroll through rows and rows of boilerplate and wrapped lines of type declaration harnessing. It simply has to go.

(Nevermind productivity or the fact that these new tiny things pack enough CPU power to make DNA sequence processing a BLAST (pardon the pun).)