21 hours ago by Ismail

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ language, was here in Oslo today and gave us a brief (5 hours?) talk about "The design of C++0x". It has helped us see the big picture and understand how standardization process is working. I got a "video" taken by him, accidentally, because my phone's camer ...

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2 days ago by diogobesson

Ao começar este post, eu me lembrei de uma situação onde uma amiga havia questionado ingenuamente o conceito de código-fonte. Para os leigos, portanto, forneço a citação do Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss (v.1.0.5a): código-fonte n substantivo masculino Rubrica: informática. sistema de símbolos utiliz ...

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2 days ago by Geoffrey K. Pullum

It is an exhausting business trying to keep up with the extraordinarily dumb content of the continuing flow of truly awful grammar texts as the amateurs crank them out. I am so grateful to Brett Reynolds for having shouldered some of the burden by putting reviews of recent ghastlies on his blog Engl ...

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2 days ago by slacy

flymake is an emacs mode that lets you “compile” (or syntax check) your code on the fly. For Python, this means that you can run several syntax checkers, like pep8 or pylint, or pyflakes (or all of the above) while you’re editing your code in realtime. To get this set up in emacs, do the following: ...

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2 days ago by Geoffrey K. Pullum

Let me return to the issue of wildly incompetent grammar text writing and the question ( which I posed here) of whether and how you can find three adjective phrases in the following list of word sequences: thank you said Jim Janet ran home the poor injured duck a shivering and frightened give me tha ...

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2 days ago by MDS

I’d just like to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who visited The Outspoken Omphaloskeptic yesterday. I’m not sure how or why it happened, but yesterday the site received the most traffic of any day since its navel-gazing inception. There were over 30% more visitors than on the previous busiest day. Less ...

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2 days ago by 3of9

So, now that I've got Syntax up and running... I've been running Snowglobe in Deferred mode pretty much full time now.It's cexi.Actually, I think its the future of SL. The eye-candy it unlocks is truly extraordinary. I can't bring myself to turn it off, and return to the flat, dull world of the stan ...

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2 days ago by Benjamin Zimmer

Mark Liberman's post, " On beyond personal datives?", has generated quite a bit of discussion in the comments section, much of it related to Larry Horn's paper, " 'I love me some him': The landscape of non-argument datives", in Bonami & Hofherr (eds.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 7, 200 ...

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3 days ago by admin

This is a short video that explains four basic rules for coding Xhtml. Most validation errors can be avoided if these rules are followed. Duration : 0:8:41 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fhtmlindex.net%2Fxhtml%2Frules-for-xhtml'; addthis_title = 'Rules+for+XHTML'; addthis_pub = ''; Technorati Tags: auth ...

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3 days ago by Mark Liberman

Yesterday, Daniel Mahaffey wrote to ask about his friend's "unusual indirect object sentences". Thus after backing into a dog in a crowded kitchen, she said "I nearly stepped on me a dog". Daniel reasons that this is analogous to the benefactive pronouns in phrases in standard written English like " ...

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