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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   Thanks! In org-mode I can even access list nodes within the files in the SpeedBar immediately! I agree with markokocic: Emacs is brilliant. I tested many editors but always returned to Emacs. In the beginning Emacs is a pain to learn but on
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   > anyone who doesn't already know C++ should avoid the investment of learning it ACK. I know many languages, and my advice after using C++ for several years is: Don't dare try to do everything in C++. Use C++ only when it is absolutely
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   I was first disappointed ... then amazed! Disapointed because the author's link to the benchmark website lead me to the wrong impression that Lua would be almost 30 times slower than Java 7. Then I googled around and discovered the awesome
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   > if you mean that it is possible to "blast satellites out of space", then yes, it is true No I meant the story about the hackers. No doubt about it that the nations could (and would) blast their satellites out of space. I wonder how th
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   Is this story really true? If so then I am amazed that hackers could be so naive at all.
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   This is very good news. We desperately need an open source alternative to the closed platforms which play along the DRM censorship technology. My dream Pad would support "dual view" modes in the sense that it could be used as a Pad and as a
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   The fundamental question is: How compatible will PyPy ever be? Which kind of applications can be run with PyPy? http://pypy.org/compat.html mentions compatiblity according to the standard library. This is fine for (web) servers and comman
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   > This is a bit silly to say 'Hollywood' is trying to destroy the internet No, unfortunately it is not "a bit silly". The content industry MUST finally get control over the Internet to survive. I am convinced they use SOPA etc. not to f
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   by bitcracker 15y ago

   > And make $250/hr contract rates. There is ludicrous demand for iOS work. I don't buy this. Any links? How many developers can expect such rates in face of more than 250,000 apps in competition? I think only some big publishing houses
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Thanks, I'll have a long close look at it.
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Any stellar constellation software recommended? I looked around the links but unfortunately there wasn't any stellar constellation software. Could anyone recommend an open source software which is able to compute constellations (visible fro
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Conways game of life animated in APL: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4&fmt=18 I didn't count the number of lines but I guess it's even less than ten.
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    What was their background? When your first language you learned was C++ or Java then you tend to use the same programming strategies in other languages which probably don't fit at all. It is not enough to know a language, you have to really
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    > I don't agree with this. I also disagree. > C++ is a massive language that virtually nobody understand in full. A professor (expert in C++) told me that there is not even a formal standard of C++. I believe C++ developers make thi
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Yes, APL is an excellent language but suitable for prototyping only (imho). Here a sample for Conways game of life in APL: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4&fmt=18
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Interestingly this article doesn't dive deeply into the most awesome Lisp feature: Macros. Here a quick glimpse: http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/Lisp-Notes/Macros.html And here an insightful statement of someone who was sceptical but became
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    If Lisp is too powerful then you are too weak :-) Lisp requires a new way of thinking - in recursion, lambdas, mapcars etc. - to write good code which reflects the awesome abilities of Lisp. Unfortunately many people don't grasp it. They do
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    I think they are afraid of Youtube, and they are even afraid of becoming obsolete. I think this is the real reason for SOPA. What happened through the Opensource movement is beginning to repeat in the movie industry. Twenty years ago Big Bl
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    > surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now. Because they ... just work? :-)
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Yes: I am from EU and know that lobbyism works. I participated in a lobbyism against EU wide software patents some years before. Serious lobbying works in the sense that you contact EU people and tell them your complaints with solid facts i
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    The beauty of Unix is its simplicity. This made Unix so reliable. If you want to write a beautiful terminal as _addon_ I have no problem with that. But I would not accept a _replacement_ of the old fashioned terminals. Because they are so s
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    If you want to write really short code then take a look at Shen: http://www.shenlanguage.org/Documentation/index.htm It supports Lisp, Scheme and Javascript as backend.
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    > how can I do all of those and at the same time write in > less code. It's not about writing the same algorithms in less code but about the way you design them. When you write Lisp code the same way as say Java or C++ then it's li
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    > Now, I'd like to build a web-app with some storage backend >(mixed of RDBMS and NoSQL). Can do REST API. Requires > web-service integration. Will perform nightly batch > computation using Hadoop. Would like to have aut
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Enslaved? This word reminds me of C, C++, Java, C#, ... :-) It's funny that all these modern languages have copied - and are still copying - features which Lisp had for decades. I know really many programming languages but the power of Lisp
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    > In my experiments readying information to be sent accounts for hefty 30%+ of code. Unfortunately I don't have time to dive into your design but AFAIK the GA144 doesn't need 30% preparation code because every instruction can be execute
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Your are focusing on classic applications only. The GA144 is so different from the classic way of computing that it requires new approaches of development. One very interesting feature of GA144 is that all 144 cores can share instructions o
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Racket Scheme ( http://racket-lang.org ) is a good Scheme implementation and provides plugins for other languages. C, for example: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/jaymccarthy/c.p... Plugin Database: http://planet.racket-lang
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Don't use an entertainment toy for TeX. iPad is a very nice piece of hardware but it is only a consumer (gamer) device - not a full featured Computer. Its good for games and ebooks but I would never use it as a developer engine. Why do you
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    by bitcracker 15y ago

    Thanks for your good answer! Quantum theory is really strange and amazing.