LEX SPOON

PROFESSIONAL

Introduction

Job materials

• vita
• research statement
• teaching statement

Computing blog

Research

• package distribution
• scala bazaars
• type inference
• muswiki
• steiner trees

Publications

Hackery

Contact

PERSONAL

Introduction

Pictures

Personal blog

Recreation

• bridge
• chess
• computer games
• martial arts

Rants

Lex Spoon's Blog

I'm Lex Spoon, a computer-science researcher. I post various thoughts about computing.

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• GWT, host thyself (May 28, 2008)
• George on Democracy in Second Life (February 9, 2008)
• No Tomboy on OS/X (February 1, 2008)
• OS/X first impressions (January 25, 2008)
• The preprint is out! (December 20, 2007)
• Building your own DVR (December 17, 2007)
• JAOO '07 (September 24, 2007)
• Ubuntu looks good (September 16, 2007)
• Late Binding of Execution Order (August 1, 2007)
• Jay Thaker and hyperlinks in news articles (May 15, 2007)
• Linux on Dell's? (April 6, 2007)
• Egdorf's new Lisp Machine (March 18, 2007)
• PERFORM, digital copyright, and the status quo (March 13, 2007)
• Real names on Wikipedia? (February 1, 2007)
• Guzdial on "why?" (January 30, 2007)
• Coyote Blog on digital copyright (January 28, 2007)
• Copyright in the digital age (January 2, 2007)
• CUPS is impossible to configure (December 31, 2006)
• Bizarre Substitutions in Windows Batch Files (December 1, 2006)
• Guy Steele on Fortress (October 25, 2006)
• Trip report on LCSD (October 22, 2006)
• Interface evolution (October 13, 2006)
• Brin on learning to program (September 14, 2006)
• Net Neutrality Roundup (July 1, 2006)
• One more delay for Scala in Debian (June 28, 2006)
• DDP at PLDI (June 17, 2006)
• It's the patents, not patent-trolling companies (May 16, 2006)
• Exim lecturing its users (April 29, 2006)
• Weaken DMCA, not extend it! (April 25, 2006)
• Debasish Ghosh blogging about Scala (April 3, 2006)
• Why a Debian package of Scala is taking so long (April 2, 2006)
• Debian Election 2006 (March 26, 2006)
• Debian is Too Large to be Polite? (March 26, 2006)
• Scala or XML for Documents? (March 24, 2006)
• The Insidious Eval Button (March 20, 2006)
• The Components Utopia (February 9, 2006)
• Paying if you spam (February 6, 2006)
• Private Universes of Package Distribution (January 13, 2006)
• David Chisnall on Where Unix Sucks (December 14, 2005)
• The Hacker's OS of Today (December 11, 2005)
• WCRE Trip Report (November 11, 2005)
• Recording for the Unwashed (November 9, 2005)
• Google's nice and tame? (November 4, 2005)
• OOPSLA Trip Report (October 21, 2005)