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Archive for September, 2013

Promises are first-class objects for function calls

Thursday, September 12th, 2013 Posted under deferreds, javascript, programming, python, twisted. | 17 Comments »

Have you ever programmed in a language without functions as first-class objects? You can't return a function from a function, can't pass a function as an argument, and you certainly ... Read more..

The mockery pervading human affairs in all their aspects

Thursday, September 5th, 2013 Posted under books. | Comments Off on The mockery pervading human affairs in all their aspects

From Tacitus, on the eventual rise of Claudius to Roman emperor, from The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics, p127): The more I think about history, ancient or modern, the more ... Read more..