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Academie francaise
Pascal Cuoq on 16 October 2011

This ranty post is because I never tire of trying the content management system on weird characters for its URLs. No, this post is really because David Mitchell himself has a new post up I find interesting. It very much follows the same general direction his posts usually do (if...

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frama-c-discuss
Pascal Cuoq on 11 October 2011

Following a discussion about Open Source, science and the difficulty of making a living in this day and age, I went and looked at the frama-c-discuss mailing list archives to confirm a suspicion. Suspicion confirmed. The public mailing list is a waste of time. I vote we close it pure...

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Bar joke
Pascal Cuoq on 29 September 2011

So I walked into a bar, and I said: Ah! Ah! There's a new Firefox, and one item in the release notes is \Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases". Nice phrase. We'll remember it for when we too fix a memory leak. Someone who knew about Firefox internals...

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About
Pascal Cuoq on 27 September 2011

It struck me, writing both the last and the next posts, that I mostly assume that the reader — you — has already read and remembers the gist of previous posts and/or the documentation. I am pretty sure this would be considered a bad habit in some circles. In fact,...

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Frama-C description
Pascal Cuoq on 14 September 2011

A webpage hosted on fedoraproject.org describes Frama-C as follows. I'm quoting the paragraph entirely although it is copyrighted by Red Hat Inc. and others. If I'm not too lazy I will criticize thoroughly which will make this fair use. frama-c is a C source code analysis tool which may be...

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