RamiK

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by RamiK 13y ago
Because CPython came first. Because Python isn't about performance. Because it's not really 6.3 times faster for most(any?) use cases. Because VMs are misunderstood as superfluous abstractions where a good interpreter should be in
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by RamiK 13y ago
Google could take a cue from this an implement Google Native Client (NaCl) in JavaScript like they do with Dart.
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by RamiK 13y ago
Is there a break down of what get's worked on by whom? Would be interesting to see what the hardware manufacturers are doing other than their own drivers. Probably fairer to if we're counting LOC...
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by RamiK 13y ago
Every standards body that is even remotely financed by governments or companies is a lie. ( http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... ) Committees rulings are a lie. ( http://www.text
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by RamiK 13y ago
Very nice looking glyphs. Notes: * I think "sadipscing" shows a minor kerning issue after the "i"s in the 14pt example image. Or is it the monospace's odd number of pixels issue? * Similarly the "k"s. * Ma
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by RamiK 13y ago
Qemu(KVM) works as well.
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by RamiK 13y ago
Plan9 been free and open source for over a decade (2003). At first it was released with some very unusual constraints(Lucent Public License v1.0). But those were quickly lifted(Lucent Public License v1.02). GNU's stance on the revised
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by RamiK 13y ago
I'm not sure about "insane". Over the years I personally moved from a dedicated TeX workstation towards using a Wheezy stable qemu virtual machine with TeX Live and Texmaker. From there, a server-side online compiler isn&#x27
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by RamiK 13y ago
A couple of things need to happen in the kernel first before the VT100 could be deprecated safely in favor of the later VTs. It all starts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmscon
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by RamiK 13y ago
CompuLab's Utilite Standard has that: http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models
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by RamiK 13y ago
Google's Chromecast: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast
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by RamiK 13y ago
So, this is like the machine spirit from WH40K? That's sorta awesome. As for the whole religious \ racist thing, I've been around computer scientists and mathematician long enough to know a great many of them tend to favor one the
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by RamiK 13y ago
Nothing here is fascinating to me. Many devs confuse Vim for an IDE. Not sure why... Don't get me wrong though, first thing in every Debian install I do is to replace vim-tiny and nano with vim as the default editor. I like to think I
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by RamiK 13y ago
So the company you work for is filled with engineers and the best hiring practice they could come up with is to give the final call on staff hiring to a humanities \ social "sciences" graduates... Maybe you should consider Google&
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by RamiK 13y ago
Wouldn't a TeX engine written in Ecmascript make more sense? A Web2JS of sorts maybe... Though I'm more inclined towards using XeTeX since it solves a lot of problems without gluing a whole new language (LuaTex anyone?) in there.
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by RamiK 13y ago
"This isn’t a language for use in UIs or game clients, but it is an extremely competent language for making servers, infrastructure or parallel/distributed processing systems." Golang has a GUI tool kit: the "net/ht
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by RamiK 13y ago
Debian (wheezy stable - latex [VM]; aptosid - surfing\reading\developing; raspbian - testing hardware) Sabayon (surfing\reading\developing) Fedora (packaging [VM]) Gentoo (server) ... Plan 9 ([VM] - cpu server; 9pi terminal - developing) ..
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by RamiK 13y ago
Seems to compile fine under x64 Linux and a Plan 9 Qemu VM. Regarding the ARM, I failed to compile it on 9pi (Plan 9 for the Raspberry Pi) though I think it should be fine in Raspbian. It's possible you'll want to pull from tip to