January 2012
3 posts
Mac Quirks I shan't miss
In no particular order
“Put-back” from Trash is not available >50% of the time
Cut-paste does not exist - moving files is painful; drag-drop is no solution, since the windows dance around uncontrollably.
Needing to buy software, find hacks, or create hacks to fix these things which should work properly out-of-the-box
No Winamp alternative (cmus via homebrew comes closest)
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Breadth-first search
“Practice writing every day”. Sure, why not; though I think now-and-then is more achievable. I certainly need to practice.
I don’t think I will get chance to see my supervisor before heading back to the UK on Tuesday night, but was pleasantly surprised to see his name crop up in the minutes of the recent Barrelfish workshop in Cambridge. I hadn’t realised he was so...
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Thesis post #1
Still fishing around for a solid topic at the moment; waiting on mail back from supervisor and a response on the barrelfish mailing list about one of their topic’s availability. So it should be Haskell and Barrelfish or one or the other, but remains to be seen exactly what.
Yesterday’s talk with my examiner about structure, procedure etc went well. I’m confident that whatever...