Author Archives: Graham Lee

FAQ update

Posted on 2007-02-14 by Graham Lee

Just a warning about @defs not necessarily being a good idea, some code from Mike Ash to add polish to the forwarding example and…um…I’m sure I added something else. Oh yes, the fact that _cmd is the name of the … Continue reading →

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Why Java is so damned lame, part exp(I*M_PI)

Posted on 2007-02-08 by Graham Lee

Gah. Back when I used to work for Oxford University, I had to do the occasional bit of Java programming for a WebObjects app. Being quite a bit more familiar with ObjC than with Java, I always found this a … Continue reading →

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TGD – expanding the field

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Graham Lee

Some primarily stochastic thought processes which occurred when I tried to apply Richard Dawkin’s hypotheses to the Æsir. If your default browsing font doesn’t contain a glyph for the ligature, well, tough ;-) I suppose one of the first things … Continue reading →

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That syncing feeling

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Graham Lee

So, ITunes tells me my iPod is up-to-date, and that it won’t copy a few songs to my iPod because the iPod software needs updating first. The word which springs to mind is "erk".

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Scary stuff

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Graham Lee

Possibly the scariest diagram anyone will ever have to look at. It’s even less penetrable than that Eric Levenez history of unix thing.

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Sacrilege!

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Graham Lee

As I wrote the @interface to an object today, I found myself wanting for but one thing: – (NSArray <MyProtocol> *) foo; Where – as if you hadn’t guessed it – the pointy bracket bit (the lengths to which I … Continue reading →

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Eating one’s own dog food

Posted on 2007-01-12 by Graham Lee

I feel foolish for having made this error (especially after having so patiently explained how this stuff works on Mach), but today I did it. I reported the amount of free memory on a Linux system as being the amount … Continue reading →

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客観的なc計算機言語

Posted on 2006-12-18 by Graham Lee

Just heard from someone who wants to translate the c.l.o-c FAQ into Japanese. Sweet!

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Copyleft

Posted on 2006-12-11 by Graham Lee

It is complete: I no longer even own all the code I write in my spare time, on my own equipment.  :-)

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TGD – John on acid

Posted on 2006-12-07 by Graham Lee

I’m about halfway through my OmniOutliner document of notes made while reading TGD now…. There’s a paraphrase in TGD saying that if the epistles of Saint John the Apostle represent John on pot, then the book of Revelation is "John … Continue reading →

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