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by 1337p337 16y ago
I agree, although most CL and Scheme implementations seem to be stuck in the Lisp box, from which escape is painful. Racket (PLT Scheme), Chicken Scheme, and Lush do a pretty good job of providing good access to the OS, but SBCL and CLisp (
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned MonaOS. It's a small, Scheme-based, x86 OS. It's got a lot of parts written in C and assembly and is occasionally buggy, but is fun. It is largely a one-man show, but it's already fairly functional. There a
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by 1337p337 16y ago
It's not a scientific metric; I did preface this by saying that "bloat" is a subjective term. But LOC of the codebase is a pretty good rule-of-thumb metric; I'm not pretending any more credibility than that. It's not hard evidence, but it
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by 1337p337 16y ago
There ought to be asterisks before the dots in those two find commands, which have instead turned into italics. My apologies.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Well, bloat is somewhat subjective, so "evidence" is hard to come by. I don't know about the other poster's reasons, but I agree, so here are mine. That xulrunner/FF/thunderbird/etc. are built from the same tree is the first indicator. T
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I installed this stuff recently, after playing with Inferno for a while. I couldn't get Plan 9 to boot on real hardware or in qemu until a couple of years ago, but once I got up and running, the documentation was a little less than satisfac
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Depends on what "cut" means. It's been lower than projected, but still is higher than the previous year. The education budget, for example, is constitutionally prohibited from cuts; in fact, it's required to grow. The most recently decri
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by 1337p337 16y ago
No, it's a great plan. What California really needs is more taxes. (Please forget that Gov. Davis was recalled just a few years ago for raising vehicle registration taxes.) Not just that, but web retailers have it easy, and encoding ever
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by 1337p337 16y ago
It's funny you should mention being married, because that's why I don't have a Facebook account. I signed up for MySpace because a girl elected to give me her MySpace username instead of her phone number. I haven't logged in since before m
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by 1337p337 16y ago
As pointed out by pg above, it seems not to. An educated guess (read: wild speculation on my part) indicates that, due to the ranking algorithm of HN (versus Twitter's simple sort, where new things show up first and order never changes) re
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I'd not heard this term for it before, and it sums up the horror accurately. You have enriched my life. The Scrollbar of Sisyphus breaks the back button (click "Back", browser remembers where you had scrolled to, can't go that far down, lan
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Twitter is a web UI for a stream of messages. It shouldn't be CPU-intensive.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Firefox's memory leaks are mostly due to JS. On the other hand, if you read the article, you'll notice that the problem is cross-browser.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
As much as I love the minimal UI, the mobile version is crippled by comparison. If they flesh out the features (which can be done without bloating it) or they deprecate the old UI like they're threatening, then I'll use it constantly. The
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Not just programmers. I've done some work for a lawyer, and a lot of filings and briefs use monospace fonts (wide margins and double-spacing, too). Most drafts and manuscripts are the same, to make things easier to mark up. I think it's
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by 1337p337 16y ago
The article glosses over monospace fonts, and leads with Assange, quite possibly for Google News juice, before admitting on page two that it's just a convention preferred by lots of typographers for proportional fonts. In proportional fonts
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I agree that the government's job is to keep others from infringing on individual rights, but I don't see a content provider's rights being violated. Let's say Verizon starts offering "everything on the net except NetFlix" as a package. T
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I like the recipe in the article; it's easy to cook, and it's what I often have for dinner: lightly fried meat and vegetables, although I usually have rice rather than beans. But for things that I plan on heating later, I prefer things th
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Or boxing! I prefer Muay Thai, but any competitive fighting sport is good, and almost any city will have some variety of boxing gym available. It's a good skill to have in general, but it's difficult to beat in terms of a workout (especial
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by 1337p337 16y ago
That's pretty lousy, but people can switch cell providers. Especially easy since, if I recall correctly, MetroPCS is prepaid, so there are no contracts to hit your wallet if you do switch. It is significantly harder to switch governments,
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by 1337p337 16y ago
> Why? Because of... heh, The Government! ahem : >> The government has two roles: to keep others from infringing on my rights, and to keep its nose out of my damned business unles I infringe on others'. > And when it gets c
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by 1337p337 16y ago
In what way has the government protected freedom of speech? The first amendment is about stopping the government from restricting speech, and it's only when the government restricts speech that there's even a reason. In fact, the governme
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Or even compared to, for example, the constraints on plays in the Elizabethan era when Shakespeare wrote, or the syllabic constraints on haiku. One would think that there would be a bigger "dancing bear" (it's amazing that the bear dances
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I totally agree. The main reason I play with Haiku is that the UI is really responsive. OSX seems to be optimized for screenshots, looking pretty in a manner that often gets in the way. I get beach-balled a lot on the Macbook I have at w
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by 1337p337 16y ago
That may have almost happened; Palm bought the rights to the old BeOS code.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Widespread adoption doesn't seem to be a goal, but really as long as the POSIX APIs are supported in a reasonable manner (...or you are Windows), it doesn't matter much. It's nice to use, and it gets to take advantage of portable open-sour
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Having loved BeOS when the free demo version 5 came out (I was very late to the game), and also being an OS junkie, I was eager to try out Haiku. The interface certainly looks 1997, but it feels reasonably smooth. It is lightweight and f
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I think that the lack of understanding about how this stuff works really is the root of non-tech people being apparently apathetic about it. Of course, the observation is all anecdotal on my part, and a lot of people seem to have anecdotal
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by 1337p337 16y ago
This is like the bizarro version of the late _why's unHoly ( http://github.com/whymirror/unholy ), the README for which contained this: "You know, it's crazy that Python and Ruby fans find themselves battling so much. While syntax is dif
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I don't know which Lua you're used to, but as of 5.1, it's incredibly fast; I may be benchmarking the wrong things (the big one I tried was finding the first 2,000,000 primes by trial division, which should lend itself well to hotspot optim

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