Julian Squires

Eccentric layabout; polyphonist

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@hillelogram "Testing calcifies interfaces" — Andy Chu, 2017

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

After thirteen years, Martin's Inferno, a chiptune collaboration between myself and @retsynNL, has finally received a proper release: https://t.co/g1UzrliQHR
Please enjoy.
#chiptune #vgm #newMusicRelease

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Tonight: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso presents Blanc and Schlick's "X-splines: a spline model designed for the end-user", at @evolvingweb. https://t.co/4fbOvhYbAi

[ICFP Contest 2018 @ICFPContest2018]

The ICFP Programming Contest 2018 has started! The Lightning Division Task Description has been posted.
https://t.co/elGtH0VMAN
#icfpcontest2018

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Montreal paper-lovers: PWLMTL is tonight at @LightspeedHQ: https://t.co/OnIRDQhjaG

Edith Viau will be speaking about Arrow's impossibility theorem as it applies to scheduling meetings!

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Tonight! Zhentao Li will be talking about OMeta at Papers We Love Montreal, hosted at @evolvingweb, sponsored by @0xCD03! Parsing and DSLs for everyone! https://t.co/PlEgJN3Oia

[Kyla Tilley @KylaTilley]

What's happening? I put out an EP, that's what's happening. https://t.co/di160dwzzj #newreleases

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@cdiggins Thanks! More coming soon; I feel like the flu has taken me out of commission for months, but spring is coming...

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@Hillelogram Common Lisp has a sophisticated but dynamic type system; unfortunately it's rarely used except as hints to the compiler, but check out for example SATISFIES: https://t.co/e4jTNUlKVr
This is a bit like a contract.

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@Hillelogram I have worked places where a company decided to use, specifically Prolog and Erlang (two different companies) despite them being very unpopular, where they were exactly the right tools for the job. Projects were successful and long-lasting.

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@bodil I think this is because the industry is so focused on novelty and churn; very few people study the history of computing, even though much of what we're doing is the reinvention of ideas from the 70s and 80s.

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@Hillelogram I think this is deeply true; I just want to use TLA+ from emacs like everything else; I fire up that awful IDE and my heart sinks: there's no way I can convince someone else to use this.

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@silentbicycle @DRMacIver This is also a great intro example because it is 99% of the time my first actual property test in a real project

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@adriancolyer I hope you will also cover Rigorous Benchmarking in Reasonable Time https://t.co/QStmJ62EQn — cites Georges; warns of normality assumptions

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Fun paper: The World's Fastest Scrabble Program https://t.co/6KtrC92loT — later work from this includes nice connections with BDDs

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Great paper: David Warren, "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" (1980)

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

@486timetable @danluu I wrote this article to try to convince you (and people of similar opinion) otherwise, perhaps: https://t.co/wdnOnVQvoO

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@silentbicycle This instantly reminded me of "Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures" https://t.co/bezGRZWJFf

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

I'm talking about diffing trees at PWLMTL tonight: https://t.co/ZmAXQvQkcv
Mostly how Zhang-Shasha works, but also RTED, others. Lisp code.

[Julian Squires @tokenrove]

Papers I am reading:
interesting use of kNN for tree diff https://t.co/h94Y9AtFU8
JSON CRDT
https://t.co/84Hoa37yYv