March Link Dump

Slightly stale leftover morsels from a month’s browsing:

Lisa Emulator Released: The interface and multitasking features were way ahead of their time in 1983. The truly document-orientated approach, with automatic saving and versioning, is still ahead of what we have now.
Plasma Pong: Fun with fluid dynamics.
The Figures Behind The Top Web Apps: Some interesting stats, although it’s a shame only DropSend had the guts to reveal their revenue.
PyPy: A Python implementation written in Python that’ll be able to compile itself. My head hurts.
Free Photoshop Brushes: A handy round-up of sources of free textures and symbols.
Creating web sites for the Wii Opera browser: A JavaScript library for detecting the Wii and button presses from its Wiimote. Particularly helpful if you’re a web developer looking for an excuse to blow cash on a console.
Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want: This makes sense for many roles/companies, as long as it’s implemented fairly. Any boss that judges an employee’s worth based on how long they’re sat at their desk is a fool.

Fri 30th Mar 2007, 11:29am GMT

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I believe being able to write the next version of the programming language in the current version is the sign of a "proper" language / it "growing up." That's based on comments about POP11 (one of the more obscure languages in the world) from when I was at university, so who knows if it's accurate or not.
There was apparently a lot of excitement when POP11 had enough functionality to be able to write itself in itself, so maybe the same is happening in Python circles at the moment.

— Paul Silver, 30th Mar, 5:12pm

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