Four Links
November 11th, 2009
Email is down—strange how hard I find it to get started in the morning without my regular fix. While I’m waiting for someone to turn the firehose back on, here are four recent links:
- The Best Hand Painting Art Ever. Gosh, we’re a creative species, aren’t we?
- Ripley: Automatically Securing Web 2.0 Applications Through Replicated Execution. A new project at Microsoft Research that tries to prevent evildoers from subverting rich internet applications by duplicating execution server-side. Neat idea.
- The CIX Top 20. Lots of interesting companies here; lots of good ideas.
- The Go Programming Language. I’m underwhelmed: it’s as if the last 20 years of programming language research hadn’t happened. Now, Google backing Haskell… That would be interesting.
> The Go Programming Language. I’m underwhelmed: it’s as if the last 20 years of programming language research hadn’t happened.
Amen.
Not only that, but after decades of operating system research the best widely used OSes are warmed over UNIX derivatives and the most widely used desktop OS is – oh, I just can’t say how ugly it’s internals are.