the thinkpod

My thesis

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It being nearly a year since I finished my work on my BSc thesis, I think it is prudent that I put it online somewhere, in hopes of someone ever finding it useful. A Formal Approach to Domain-specific Languages

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First impression of Scala

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Even though generally speaking, I am against choosing symbolic programming over verbose and well-readable code, I have to admit that this code snippet taken from the Wikipedia entry on Scala is nothing short of beautiful: def qsort(list: List[Int]): List[Int] = list match { case Nil => Nil case pivot :: tail => { val (smaller,…

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Reality

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Is there ever the possibility of somehow getting a precise, unquestionable definition of reality, that regardless of what we divine from the universe around us, usually using our more mundane senses, the reality of it cannot be challenged and put to question?

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Access super user shell

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I recently had a problem with my Debian box; namely, that I couldn’t access my superuser shell the usual way by typing: su – As this is a problem with the user bit of the “su” command not being set properly, you can fix this by logging in as root (or any other user with…

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Learning Gradle

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Gradle, is another build automation tool I’ve been introduced to by colleagues and friends. For those who are not familiar with it, Gradle (with words taken from the official site) is: Gradle is build automation evolved. Gradle can automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment and more of software packages or other types of projects such…

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