[xclite]

jon.kiparsky, on 31 December 2012 - 10:31 PM, said:

xclite, on 31 December 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

I got some warm running clothes, because apparently it gets cold in Boston. At some point. Allegedly.

You're still out of town? You missed the snow.

I'm back now. Snow doesn't impress me as much as cold does =p

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I also got a stack of books I'd asked for:
Programming Concurrency on the JVM

Would that be Programming in Scala, then? />/>/>

I like the goals of Scala, but every time I look at it I can't help but think "Scala is the C++ of the JVM and I vastly dislike working in C++." I've found Clojure's model to be a "nice" abstraction over Threads for various types of concurrent tasks, but I think Erlang wins on concurrency of all the things I've sampled in the last couple years. I'll take another peek at how Scala does it, but the language flavor just hasn't resonated with me yet.

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Seriously, one of the things that I'm really interested in about scala is the work they've done to make concurrency transparent. I've got a few experiments I want to do with this, as soon as I make the time. I'm intrigued by the idea of writing classes in Java and controlling them with little Scala classes.

My impetus for reading this book came from a list of suggested books by Rich Hickey for background on decisions he made in Clojure. I figure I'm overdue for some real concurrency reading anyway - implementing naive little thread pools is only the tiniest tip of that iceberg.

[depricated]

xclite, on 31 December 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

I'm back now. Snow doesn't impress me as much as cold does =p

There's gotta be a D&D joke in here somewhere

[BenignDesign]

..... And the loot is in! Just came home from the big party at mom's. My loot list is as follows:

From a mysterious stranger: Gourmet Popcorn Foodstuffs

From my kids: A plastic bracelet, a skeleton key, and a slinky

From my parents: A Crock Pot, a new alarm clock, The Muppets DVD, 2 diabetic cookbooks, and a Star Wars Year-by-Year coffee table book.

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Excellent holiday. Excellent family and friends. Excellent food. Couldn't ask for more.

[magius96]

BenignDesign, on 01 January 2013 - 05:51 PM, said:

Couldn't ask for more.

Sure you could..., "one million dollars, four fast cars, three french harlots, two sluts-a-kissin, and some parts to a powerhouse pc."

[BenignDesign]

Do not need. Do not want.

WTF is with people and their constant need to be unhappy with having enough?

[magius96]

Oh no...I've got enough to make me happy, I was merely pointing out the standard desires to have more more more more.

[jon.kiparsky]

And why does he want a pair of dykes? Is his lawnmower broken?
Or does he need some wire cut?

[magius96]

Wires cut....gonna have to put that power house pc together once all the parts are there.

[DarenR]

windows 8
ruger 9mm
clothes
etc etc

[magius96]

Hmm....ruger to shoot the windows 8 machine, and new clothes to help you stay hidden afterwards.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Got golf balls, a golf bag, tees, and gift certificate to a local pro shop to get a set of decent golf clubs (the ones I have are a K-Mart starter set from the early 80s). And a nice LL Bean sweater.

This Xmas loot officially qualifies me as old.

[BetaWar]

I got...
A canon rebel t3i body
15-55mm lens
55-250mm lens
Nintendo 3DS XL
LoZ: OoT 3DS
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Halo 4
Comfy pants (plaid)
A gift card
And an Artemis Fowl book (don't remember which one it was, but one of the latest three to have been released).

[Cheribasa]

Pokemon Black 2 (finished already)
Plants vs. Zombies (ds)
Super paper Mario : Sticker star
Foodstuffs
Clothes
The traditional noodles

and some lego sets

[magius96]

You just got Pokemon Black 2 and you've already caught them all?