penguin sounds » ideas http://penguinsounds.org programming blog Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bjorne Stroustrup lecture http://penguinsounds.org/2007/08/09/bjorne-stroustrup-lecture/ http://penguinsounds.org/2007/08/09/bjorne-stroustrup-lecture/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:15:42 +0000 taybin http://penguinsounds.org/2007/08/09/bjorne-stroustrup-lecture/ I saw Bjorne Stroustrup give a lecture as part of the New York City Google TechTalks. Pretty interesting stuff. More updates to the language that I was expecting. Some much desired features too.

Two downsides:

  1. the language is going to be that much more complicated. I’m looking at you, seperate meta-type system for controlling templates
  2. it took so long for the STL and templates to get good enough support, I doubt I’ll see any of this until 2015
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follow lampshadish at http://twitter.com

I finally signed up for a twitter account today after some prodding from my friend.

I gotta say, I’m not really feeling it. As a programmer, I really don’t want to see constant notifications distracting me and taking me out of the zone. And if I hide Twitterrific and set the update timer to 10 minutes, what’s the point?

Right now, the best use of Twitter is as a distributed notification framework, like Growl, but the notifications show up on your cellphone.

This would be an excellent feature for someone to add to Lingon.

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