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by BruceM 13y ago
The compiler has multiple backends. The "HARP" backend outputs native code for x86-linux, x86-freebsd and x86-windows. The C backend outputs C and works on x86_64-linux, x86_64-freebsd and Mac OS X. We have an in-progress LLVM bac
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by BruceM 13y ago
White space is required around operators. This allows the names of bindings (variables, methods or whatever) to be very flexible. Things that represent a boolean can end in '?'. Operations that mutate can end in '!'. In
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by BruceM 13y ago
The LLVM backend and Coroutines support are a bit more than would fit into a hack-a-thon. The LLVM backend is actually making good progress with someone who has been working on it for a long time (with some breaks). The postgres client libr
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by BruceM 13y ago
People have in the past ... I think we're at the point where someone could do so again with our current release. I hope to do so, myself.
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by BruceM 13y ago
This can be a difficult thing to answer, as choice in programming language can be something very personal in that different things resonate in different ways with each of us. For me, some of the important things are: * The language is much
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by BruceM 13y ago
We're also having our hack-a-thon this weekend (July 13-14). We're expecting around 15 people to participate on IRC and perhaps a Google hangout. Hopefully we'll be making some good headway on things for our next release (whi
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Open Dylan 2013.1 released(opendylan.org)
87 points by BruceM 13y ago|26 comments
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Pakistan's bin Laden Dossier(aljazeera.com)
1 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
We'll also be releasing the Open Dylan 2013.1 release this week in preparation. We've fixed a lot of things so far this year.
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Dylan Hack-a-thon: July 13-14, 2013(opendylan.org)
30 points by BruceM 13y ago|3 comments
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Silencing Speech by Crippling Access(bayreporta.com)
1 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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California public records law 'eviscerated' in budget bill, critics charge(mercurynews.com)
1 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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Against the myth of the heroic visualization(andrewgelman.com)
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by BruceM 13y ago
See http://www.theglobalmail.org/blog/day-by-day-in-detention/63... for additional context.
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Visualising the 'incidents' in Australian migrant detention centres(behindthewire.theglobalmail.org)
1 points by BruceM 13y ago|1 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
He's working through OCRing over 7 million of these documents. He could use some help doing so, so contacting him would be great.
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Search IRS 990 forms from non-profits(lukerosiak.info)
3 points by BruceM 13y ago|1 comments
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A Ringside Seat as Istanbul Protests(hughpope.com)
6 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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How the Guardian built multimedia interactive Firestorm(journalism.co.uk)
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Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web(arstechnica.com)
335 points by BruceM 13y ago|200 comments
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Experiments in python and d3 from R: GDELT made easy(quantifyingmemory.blogspot.com)
1 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
I think it is good to see a segment of the population (one with a large voice) being pushed to understand and pay attention to computer security. Perhaps this will help more things become more secure by default, or enable things like two-fa
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How Journalists Can Protect Themselves From the U.S. Government(slate.com)
2 points by BruceM 13y ago|1 comments
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GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location, Tone. 250M entries so far.(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by BruceM 13y ago|0 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
Comments from the Sunlight Foundation: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/09/open-data-exec...
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by BruceM 13y ago
The White House also posted a blog entry about this with many additional links: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/09/landmark-steps-lib...
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Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information(whitehouse.gov)
180 points by BruceM 13y ago|24 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
The MPS GC is a commercial quality garbage collector that runs on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X in both 32 and 64 bit configurations. It has a long history behind it going back to the Harlequin Lisp company in the 1990s. This release
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First release of MPS GC with full documentation (1.111.0)(mailman.ravenbrook.com)
15 points by BruceM 13y ago|1 comments
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MLWorks: SML compiler from Harlequin returning from the dead as open source(ravenbrook.com)
89 points by BruceM 13y ago|29 comments

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