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by claystu 13y ago
This is the kind of article we need more of on Hacker News. The author chose a newer language to build a real project in and then gave us an evaluation of how that language worked as a tool. This is far superior to the typical benchmark-gam
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by claystu 13y ago
What are you running that can't view a pdf?
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by claystu 13y ago
I feel like this point can't be overstated. It's so simple, but so correct.
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by claystu 13y ago
As a Linux user, I'd like to believe that Linux distros enjoy this kind of influence, but I honestly can't see how. How many people are still on Windows? How many are on OSX? How many are comfortable in 2.x and couldn't care
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by claystu 13y ago
I have an interest in forth, the insights of Chuck Moore, and GreenArrays, which is why I was (1) so excited to watch this talk and (2) so disappointed in my in-ability to follow it. I'm not sure what kind of background you need for hi
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by claystu 13y ago
I expected to at least see Fedora mentioned. It's still very much alive and well.
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by claystu 13y ago
Short answer: it doesn't impact my analysis at all. Long answer: Even if it's true that countries are funding PhD programs for national status, that doesn't imply that the programs, themselves, are compromised. The programs s
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by claystu 13y ago
In reality, we're moving them from academia into the commercial world. As for being unequipped, while in the short term they might lack the experience, over the long run, we're betting that educational depth will operate as levera
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Analysis of the law on BioTech Patents(wardandsmith.com)
1 points by claystu 13y ago|0 comments
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by claystu 13y ago
That quote by Bjarne Stroustrup: "I--and my colleagues--needed a language that could express program organization as could be done in Simula...but also write efficient low-level code, as could be done in C." in Masterminds of Pro
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by claystu 13y ago
You can pretty much deduce what their history class must have looked like: war and discovery. It's interesting to note that they spell Sir Walter Raleigh differently than we do now. I wonder if that's a typo. Did anybody else have
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by claystu 13y ago
I love pascal, but once you move beyond the turbo pascal features of Free Pascal and start trying to use the Lazarus IDE and the Delphi look-alike features the going gets really rough. The documentation is terrible. There's a lot there
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by claystu 13y ago
This is exactly what I think too. I suspect the only reason they kept C's pointer token instead of using ^ is to maintain the fiction that this is really a 'C' family language rather than a derivative of Pascal and Modula.
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Pharo 2.0 released(pharo-project.org)
1 points by claystu 14y ago|0 comments
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by claystu 14y ago
That's too bad. I love the Ipad hardware, but I'm just not a fan of the Apple interface. Being locked out of my own computer drives me nuts--especially whenever I try to watch something in Flash.
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by claystu 14y ago
I'm betting you meant "that's nice, but did you have to break the Ubuntu desktop experience to build a tablet interface?"
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by claystu 14y ago
Can you dual boot it to an Ipad?
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by claystu 14y ago
I think it's more that he's been surprisingly honest about Apple at times when most people expect someone in his position to be an uncritical fanboy. I'm always impressed when Woz criticizes Apple or praises one of its competitors. It makes