DannyB2

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by DannyB2 7y ago
One interesting thing is the idea that app applications and utilities are in a virtual object code rather than native code. This reminds me of the UCSD p-System of the early 1980's. To port the OS all you had to port was the very small
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Why Clojure? Clojure has cons, car, cdr which you can use in the classic Lisp sense. The only thing you CAN'T do is have a dotted pair or dotted list in the last cons cell. One might argue that you cannot surgically alter data structu
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by DannyB2 7y ago
1. no garbage collector 2. No tail recursion 3. There is no cons, cdr or car stuff. Lists are just vector objects and you use push, cat, slice etc to manipulate elements. Only this much is radical enough to say that it isn't a Lisp but
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Just to point something out. IBM sponsored and was the primary contributor of resources to an independently developed Java work-alike called Apache Harmony. (about JDK 1.5 level, IIRC) Apache Harmony was, naturally, under the Apache licen
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by DannyB2 7y ago
You are supposed to confuse Caldera with SCO. But you didn't. GL was one of the best daily reads there ever was.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> would there be less malware, etc? There would be MORE malware. People who couldn't meet the high standards could find income in the lucrative field of malware.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
In the late 1970's, high school, I used a Wang 2200, PCS I believe it was. The BASIC was wonderful compared to anything else around (TRS-80 Level II, PET, Apple). Disks were an out of reach luxury at this time, but Wang's 9-track
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I have to disagree. Sun sued Microsoft because Sun's entire motivation in Java was to keep Java portable. So much so that it was in the contract. It was a private contract dispute between two companies. A civil matter. Not a state
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Not likely. Something more likely. Two things. Make dot NET a truly first class citizen on other platforms. Including the ecosystem of C# and dot NET libraries. Some of this may be difficult due to the long time that dot NET has been Win
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by DannyB2 7y ago
J++ had extensions that were not portable -- in clear violation of the binding license agreement that Microsoft would not add anything to the java.* or javax.* namespaces. Hence the lawsuit. Microsoft could have added any Microsoft or Windo
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by DannyB2 7y ago
10 CODE IN BASIC 20 ??? 30 GOSUB 10 40 PROFIT!
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> Once you start throwing in #DEFINEs and typedefs, > I start to question whether I can trust anything I'm > seeing on the screen to not be hiding crucial secrets from me. What could go wrong? Try my cool optimizations! #defi
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Racket is a Lisp. One that facilitates building other languages.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Yes. I got that out of the article as well, but didn't bring it up. In many applications it is important for support staff to be able to access your account in certain ways, but not other ways.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
So much fail. They shouldn't even be able to know what your password is. They shouldn't have a copy of it anywhere. Only a hash function (or several) of it. It should be impossible for any of their staff to ever obtain your pass
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I also learned on an IBM 1130. At the very end of the era of punched cards. With 029 keypunch. During my 1st semester a new (not IBM) minicomputer with two CRT terminals was installed. Macros had been written on the new system by school
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by DannyB2 7y ago
The real lesson is, no matter what base (radix) you use, floating point math is inexact. The value of floating point is that it can represent extremely huge or extremely infinitesimal values. If you're working with currency / mone
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by DannyB2 7y ago
If it is the same content, then the advantage is that you don't have to give an email address in order to get it for 'free'.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> World focuses attention on humanity's survival We can't focus on global warming. Would we actually focus on an impending asteroid collision, or an incoming alien invasion?
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Java, in a few places, has optional trailing commas. That is, if your last item also has a trailing comma, that is okay. To put this into SQL notation: SELECT col1, col2, col3, FROM Table Now the columns were on separate lines, it is easy
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by DannyB2 7y ago
The shape appears optimized for driving under semi trailers which are perpendicular to the roadway. Nice touch since it includes autopilot.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
While Cloud Print may be an exception, a problem seems to be that Google has perverse incentives. Creating new products is probably over incentivized, while the boring work of operating and maintaining existing useful products is under ince
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I think of PDF like PostScript but not Turing complete. I think of PostScript as an "ink on paper" format. While you can take apart the PDF / PS format, dictionaries, etc. It's not a high level representation format,
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Learning the magician's trick always results in the disappointing feeling: oh, so that's all there is to it.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I would love to see it updated for Clojure and/or Racket.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
If you want to know how to build a Prolog . . . When I learned Common Lisp, I devoured the available textbooks in 1989 and for a few years after. A book from the early 1990s is: Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. By
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> I thought it was more like the "Ship of Theseus" Start on a clean system. Put all of the correctly licensed source code there. Do not include any GPL/LGPL code Now run make. Nothing GPL or LGPL licensed touched your b
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> Best thing is to just not have anything to do with the US of A. The US is about 4% of the world population. The rest of the world about 96%. (Google for "US population" and "world population", use mathematical proc
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Those people don't exist.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
What you say is true. I would point out that the vast bulk of software in the entire world is vertical market business software. Vertical market meaning for a limited kind of user, versus horizontal software such as Word or Excel that ever

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