Clojure - datatypes - what I like about Clojure: pragmatic and compact solutions for typical programming problems. Clojure 1.2 will introduce the possibility of having better descriptions of data structures with functionalities defined on them. And not some monstrous construction like CLOS or other Lisp-OO extensions, but rather lean constructs that also fit well with the host environments (JVM and CLR). Looks quite interesting. The downside of all the changes in Clojure: books become outdated faster than they can be printed ...
Deutsche Bank fined for banned bets - but Uncle Ackermann said the Deutsche Bank had nothing to do with the financial crisis! He wouldn't have lied, would he!
Koch insists on cuts in the education sector - quite amusing, first the states demand more independence in education policy and then it's too expensive for them. Will someone ever tell the Union clowns that the NRW-CDU has particularly failed in education policy in the last election?
Köhler criticizes the litigiousness of German politicians - has the Federal August ever noticed how often such lawsuits have been successful recently? How does this fit with the alleged constitutional conformity that he attributes to majority decisions? The fact is that some of the biggest active enemies of the constitution are currently sitting in the Bundestag. To see this, one only has to read the reasons given by the Federal Constitutional Court in some of its recent decisions.
Rubinius : Use Rubyâ„¢ - I'm not a big Ruby fan, but Rubinius (Ruby-in-mostly-Ruby) has been released as version 1.0. And the various projects to bring Ruby to a mostly Ruby-based platform with LLVM underneath still make me envious. I would love to have something like that for Python ... (yes, I know Unladen Swallow and PyPy - but both are still miles away from a serious version, unfortunately)
Street View: Google eavesdropped on open WLANs - that's exactly the problem with Streetview. Not in the pure photos. But in the entire program - the integration of various things in a large-scale scan. The combination with all the databases that Google already has. The merging of various information sources, purely from the geek's perspective as "wow, hey, look at all the stuff we've got, now let's just pull out everything we can". Or put another way: just imagine, the cars didn't belong to Google, but to the state. And the program, the databases and the information gathering frenzy wasn't a company in America, but our state. Would the accumulation of information and data then appeal to you as much as Streetview? If it were the state, at least there would be the appearance of democratic control over this gigantic database.
