Just Keep Bouncing

My wife and daughter and I are in San Diego for the week escaping the gloomy Vancouver winter. It’s been a great relaxing time. Except for a few seconds yesterday, the stuff of every parent’s nightmares. Andrea and Emily had gone up to the second pool area of the resort, which we hadn’t been to

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Reflection and Lazy Evaluation FTW

For when you have a gigabyte of JSON data to process:

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Left-recursion in Parsing Expression Grammars

Sérgio Medeiros and colleagues have published a paper that fleshes out their previously unpublished algorithm that I used for IronMeta‘s left-recursion handling, along with a very kind mention of IronMeta itself.

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eBay Follies

I’m trying to sell a Nokia N9 smartphone on eBay. I first listed it a couple of days ago, and only a day later someone had bought it using the “buy it now” option. They provided rather detailed instructions of how and where to email them the final invoice, that did not include going through

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Paschal Greeting

I led a brief multilingual Paschal Greeting in church this past Easter Sunday. When I was researching the greetings I found the Wikipedia article and various websites not very useful for getting actual pronunciations. With the help of more research and some native speakers I came up with the following list. The second line of

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