Solarsail

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by Solarsail 12y ago
>If you feel restricted by a type system, you're using it wrong. A type system is a useful tool, not an impediment. It only prevents you from doing wrong things. Only a perfect type system is capable of preventing only wrong things,
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Looks kinda like you reached a 3:1 resonance between the small planet and the mini star. I wonder if it's actually dynamically stable, in that the mini-star is actually pushing the earth-sized planet towards that stable orbit.
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Well, if you're only looking for logic languages instead of Prolog itself, then there's http://www.princexml.com/ written in Mercury.
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by Solarsail 13y ago
I wasn't implying that they were tolerant. Only that intolerance of intolerance, as it were, is one of the most extreme form on intolerance around. Taken to its extreme, it is intolerant of a very large swath of human thought. Relig
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by Solarsail 13y ago
To not be tolerant of intolerance is to be more intolerant than any religious fundamentalist or extremist.
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by Solarsail 13y ago
And Prop 8 itself was a constitutional amendment. It was only overturned due to the constitution above it; And that constitution was not amended. (Also speaking as a non-american).
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by Solarsail 13y ago
I would rather avoid a browser that was either pro or anti women's rights. Or pro or anti abortion. Or pro or anti slavery. Or pro or anti human. Although an anti-human browser might be cool... Tools should not be politically orie
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by Solarsail 13y ago
You could argue compilers are good at making transformations to a program for optimization, but they are in many ways information starved. Cooperating with a compiler in the way http://www.yosefk.com/blog/humans-and-co
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Picking a(n extremely small) nit (with a fine tooth comb): Fortran compiler. There are no Fortran interpreters in existence, anywhere, that I've been able to find. For FORTRAN 70, Fortran 90, or any other versions. If someone manage
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Shakespeare is only superficially readable. In reality, the logic executed by the program is very nearly unrelated to the way the program reads to a human. Essentially it's a cute syntax over the same old FORTRAN, much like lolcode.
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by Solarsail 13y ago
As far as I can see from this article, this law doesn't block German companies from serving German-served ads from German servers to Italians. It doesn't block anyone else outside Italy from serving any ads from anywhere to Itali
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Out of nearly-off-topic-curiosity, does this language have a website(page)? Was it new when you started your project? Have you been able to use libraries from other languages? Or is this really an island of 5 people? (Suddenly that soun
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by Solarsail 13y ago
(Assuming you're asking from a really long distance out) Well, there's two current implementations of it (with Rakudo being actively developed): http://www.perl6.org/compilers/features As for example code, t
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by Solarsail 13y ago
I'd be surprised if that was an exception; I'm only a decade younger (and Canadian) and only missed out on The Lord's Prayer. But sung the anthem every morning. And I'm not in a small town... If that's changed,
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Why, then, is the president limited to serving two terms? There's essentially squat keeping the president doing anything at all resembling what he said he would do during his second term. (Said by a non-American, who views this aspec
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by Solarsail 13y ago
At the same time, it is incredibly easy to fake being sorry. In addition to that, in the case of an innocent being held in jail they would have no real reason to be sorry for what they didn't do. (I could accept that this latter poin
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Ignoring Node for a moment, Ruby and Python currently have a noticeably higher barrier to entry for the kind of personal home page that PHP was named for. <html-stuff><html-otherstuff> <?php $todays-date ?php> <making
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Where do you get that civilization has to be 'civil'? One alternative definition I'm fond of (yes, admittedly only fond of) for civilization requires no such thing: The use of agriculture to supply food rather than hunting
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by Solarsail 13y ago
Wasn't the original concept for SPSS (at least in O'Neils The High Frontier) to build them out of mined asteroid materials? At that point the cost of the proposal is disconnected from the cost of launching the panels. I've