December 06, 2003
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Part of going back through my email inbox involves finding things about which I said to myself, “I’ve got to blog that. Someday.” Plus, things I just noticed today.
- A month ago, Jospeh Zitt emailed David Weinberger and me to tip us off to the new online edition of the Zohar, the genre-defying medieval mystical Judaic tract. It's a scholarly effort from Stanford University Press, it’s online in the Aramaic critical edition — though the press is withholding the English translation, and the pages are set up in frames. Still, a wonderful resource and many thanks to Joseph for pointing it out (here he thought I would never pick up the link!).
- Doc was right, and is right, about Napster and radio, and about blogs and print media. Something fundamental has changed, and aggrieved execs can moan all day about preserving the law as it emerged under radically different social, industrial, and economic conditions — but those conditions don’t obtain, those laws will work only at the cost of hog-tying emergent technologies (at a time when the U.S. economy is already faltering and hesitant), and the way forward will ultimately be shown by people with the foresight and willingness to implement a system that derives its architecture and rationale from the circumstances of digital production.
- Bob Carlton pointed me to a site of parodies of Anglican hymnody. . . .
- A while back I pointed away to The Right Christians; now I need to remind anyone interested that a while back, Chris Tessone shifted gears from linguablogging to theologoblogging.
- We’re making plane reservations for our trip to New Haven for the 4th, and Margaret asked me, “What does it say about us that we’re joyously arranging a January plane trip away, not to Aruba, not to Florida, not to Disney World, but to New Haven, where it’ll be cold and gray and slushy?” It says that (a) we’ in love and will happily go almost anywhere together, (b) we’ll have a chance to visit with my cousin Daniel, and (c) New Haven was a very very important part of our lives getting to today
- St. Luke’s has me sympathizing with what Harrison Ford said: “I’m getting a very bad feeling about this. . . .”
- Not only did the elusive Tom Matrullo blog today, he wrote a very lovely piece about my busy Thursday. I bloghop not so much by way of my blogroll as by way of my bookmarks, of which I keep three folders dedicated to the weblogs I visit. Tom still holds a place of honor near the top of the “every day” folder, as I always look forward to more of his wisdom. He was right about Napster too, after all.
- I got as far back into my email box as October. We will choose to look upon that as success.
Posted by AKMA at December 6, 2003 10:47 PM
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Let's take a moment to reexamine that. What we've done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we're storing data in it. That's the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that's really called favoriteNumber, and it's the one we're working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn't big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
When the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
When the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
