Monthly Archives: April 2010

Security: Simultaneously Weak and Amusing

At the urgings of a friend, I recently set up a script that takes a picture (with iSight) every time the lid of his MacBook is opened. To be fair, the sense in which I actually did any work is quite marginal, as two tools — ImageSnap and Sleepwatcher — handle any aspect of the [...]
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High On Lisp

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Thunks and Haskell

I’ve been spending a bit of time this weekend playing with Haskell, and I came across an interesting problem while writing a few functions that, overtly, would seem quite simple. Notably, Haskell is a lazy language, storing promises of later evaluation in what are called thunks. Having some reasonable amount of experience in Clojure, lazy [...]
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