today's leftovers
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RIP Fred 'Mythical Man Month' Brooks • The Register
Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.
Fred Brooks was the project lead for OS/360, IBM's flagship OS for its vastly influential S/360 line of computers. His experience on this project led him to write probably the most famous book about project management, The Mythical Man-Month.
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CACI’s Archon Joins Red Hat Embedded Partner Program
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Youtube Music for Desktop 0.9.3 - PCLinuxOS
Youtube music for desktop is a beautiful application for playing youtube music on your desktop without ever opening your browser. Now available in the PCLinuxOS Software Repository.
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I put an LSP in your LISP ..
I recently wrote about yet another lisp I'd been having fun with.
Over the past couple of years I've played with a few toy scripting languages, or random interpreters, and this time I figured I'd do something beyond the minimum, by implementing the Language Server Protocol.
In brief the language server protocol (LSP) is designed to abstract functionality that might be provided by an editor, or IDE, into a small "language server". If the language-server knows how to jump to definitions, provide completion, etc, etc, then the editor doesn't need to implement those things for NN different languages - it just needs to launch and communicate with something that does know how to do the job.