I’ve written earlier about my travails looking for a good RSS aggregator. Since then, I have been a happy user of Bloglines for many months. Together with a subscribe bookmarklet, it succeeds very well at what I think is the most important feature of an RSS aggregator: low overhead. It just works!
Recently however, a few applications on our intranet have started producing RSS. And suddenly, Bloglines doesnt cut it any more! So I’m off again on more adventures in RSS land. Maybe bloglines should open source its engine? :)
How Java’s Floating Point hurts everyone everywhere was written in 1998, and I’ve seen a reference to it every now and then. Makes as much of a fascinating read today as it was six years ago. Apart from a critique of Java’s floating point implementations, its also a reasonably good overview of the pleasures and pain of numerical analysis. Did you know that you could get completely different solutions to complex functions depending on how your compiler treats the difference between +0 and -0.
What has struck me most, is that it seems one needs to be knowledgeable in linear algebra as well as computer architecture - as classic a case of leaky abstractions as one can get.