Author Archives: josemaria

D language developers decided that those structures are so simple that they should not maintain any kind of state. As a consequence you need to relay on external functions for finding out their length: import std.container; import std.range; import std.stdio; … Continue reading →

37 minutes of pure gold.   Narcissistic Design – Stuart Halloway from Reaktor on Vimeo.

Scientists reproduce results; engineers build impressive and enduring artifacts; and theologians muse about what they believe but can’t see or prove. From «Empiricism is not a matter of Faith» (PDF)

If you get errors in Vim like: E484: Can’t open file /tmp/vRDNVqe/0 It’s because you probably are using the Fish shell. The fix is simple, just tell Vim in the ~/.vimrc config file to use a different shell for running … Continue reading →

Just follow the instructions in: http://askubuntu.com/questions/285642/skype-crashes-with-a-segmentation-fault/285916#285916

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-earth-was-not-a-fluke/

We started the week expecting to publish one David Foster Wallace post. Then, because of the 50th birthday celebration, it turned into two. And now three. We spent some time tracking down free DFW stories and essays available on the web, and … Continue reading →

To grasp the difference between today’s plutocrats and the hereditary elite, who (to use John Stuart Mill’s memorable phrase) “grow rich in their sleep,” one need merely glance at the events that now fill high-end social calendars. The debutante balls … Continue reading →