billsix

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   by billsix 14y ago

   At ILC 2009, Guy Steele asked Rich Hickey how Clojure's STM interacted with I/O. To which, Rich replied that it doesn't. No further discussion continued on the subject. I have found that this rarely enters discussions regarding Clojure, a
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   by billsix 14y ago

   http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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   by billsix 14y ago

   > ESR telling people how to be hackers is pretty galling when you consider what a massive pile of bugs it is/was What is "it"? Fetchmail?
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   by billsix 14y ago

   It is better. C++ is not what the creator of OO had in mind. (Smalltalk is).
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   by billsix 14y ago

   http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
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   by billsix 14y ago

   I've bought mario 64 and ocarina of time 3 times each. (N64, ds systems, and on the wii.) My wii disc drive broke 6 months ago. I tried to repair it, and I failed, as i broke the connection of the data ribbon to the disc drive. This faul
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   by billsix 14y ago

   One time pad requires the key to be as big as the plaintext. This looks like a weak variant of the Vigenere cipher.
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   by billsix 14y ago

   Not on shaky legal ground http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
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   by billsix 14y ago

   But does it come with sandpaper?
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Cyanogenmod should fit most of your needs http://www.cyanogenmod.com
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Originally they used change sets. That didn't scale particularly well. Monticello is a distributed versioning system that was later developed for Squeak smalltalk. http://wiresong.ca/monticello/ . The Cuis project, a fork from squeak,
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Agreed. Especially since he used 'find /Users -name "order*"', which means it was probably written on OS X.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Don't care about demographics on HN
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    by billsix 14y ago

    I don't want to sign in with Google for a typing tutor.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    A "Kinesis Advantage " keyboard and "apt-get install dvorak7min" is all a programmer needs.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Just pipe your data /dev/null to get that web-scale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Because calculus is the first class where functions (e.g. derive, indefinite intergration) take a function as its input, and outputs a function.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    RSA did not "rob the collective human intelligence pool." It empowered us all and inspired others' patent-free works, like El-Gamal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Smalltalk 80. http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html
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    by billsix 14y ago

    True, and unit tests don't help with those concerns either. I'm confused by the original post and these comments. What are you trying to convey? Can you state your point directly? I am not understanding.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    There are lots of theories and examples of alternatives to DRM that protect the rights of both the creator and end user. Such as?
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    by billsix 14y ago

    How does it combine the OO of smalltalk and the functional programming of lisp? What was smalltalk lacking that ruby added?
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Thanks for that link. I'm just surprised that this article is near the top of the front page, next to Apple, John Carmack, Android ported to C#, and an OpenBSD release. Seems to me that a few writer's articles always shoot to the top of thi
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    by billsix 14y ago

    Why is this posted on hackernews?
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    by billsix 14y ago

    I am currently running it on my Toshiba NB 305 net book. I've been pleased with the performance overall, but on the few occasions where I needed more power, I switched desktop environments to lxde and performance was boosted.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    I don't understand how "mv", with relative and absolute pathnames, is implementation leakage.
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    by billsix 14y ago

    I am willing to help but your question is very vague. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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    by billsix 14y ago

    " The unlocked Galaxy Nexus requires GSM compatible service provider for voice calling. In the United States this includes AT&T and T-Mobile. Phones purchased from devices on Google Play are not compatible with Verizon or Sprint."
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    by billsix 14y ago

    1) Simply Scheme 2) The Littler Schemer 3) ANSI Common Lisp 4) On Lisp 5) Practical Common Lisp 6) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 7) Let over Lambda
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    by billsix 14y ago

    I don't understand what "object/functional hybrid languages" means. Smalltalk-80 had functional features, built in to the core. So much so that there was no "if statement"; instead, you would pass a message to a boolean object with two fu