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by colomon 16y ago
I'm wondering what the author would make of Perl 6, which both embraces Unicode and allows the programmer to create new operators from arbitrary collections of Unicode symbols. It seems like his fondest dream and his worst nightmare at the
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by colomon 16y ago
I am (as I type this on a different system) in the midst of upgrading my MBP with one of these babies. :)
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by colomon 16y ago
So they're going to announce 10.7 about the time I finally get around to installing 10.6 (if all goes according to plan).
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by colomon 16y ago
I solved all three in Perl 6... ;)
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by colomon 16y ago
I read it as we should be wary of a false negative. I was going to write that your other possibility seemed like good advice too, but on consideration, it probably isn't, at least without caveats. In this particular example, it sounds like
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by colomon 16y ago
According to John Carmack ( http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack , search for Apple), Apple asked him to also be at the conference, and he turned them down because of the conditions they wanted to put on him to do it.
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by colomon 16y ago
I once made it a month into the cold season here in Michigan before realizing that my house's only heating was coming from my computers...
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by colomon 16y ago
I don't see any sign you're telling the author anything he doesn't already know. At least, it looks to me like his complaint is precisely that using and with are awkward solutions, because they break object encapsulation in a particularly
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by colomon 16y ago
Hey, no fair citing a "must read" book which is $100+ on Amazon.com. :(
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by colomon 16y ago
Suspect parent was meant as a joke, but it does seem like this legal action might have interesting ramifications for Parrot. (Both positive and negative.)
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by colomon 16y ago
What sort of thing are you looking for? The current central repository for Perl 6 projects -- http://proto.perl6.org/ -- has a number of cool projects, but they don't necessarily all run under the current Rakudo, as there have been two w
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by colomon 16y ago
I'm fascinated that so many of the commenters here seem to be focusing on the fact that the algorithm mentioned doesn't work in every case. My reaction was different -- I thought of a case where it would be less than ideal, and allowed it
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by colomon 16y ago
Ann Arbor (and U of M, etc.) is in Washtenaw County, not Oakland.
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by colomon 16y ago
Amusingly enough, I tried to sell two of the books he pictures there at my garage sale last weekend...
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by colomon 16y ago
I'd gladly use such a keyboard with my MacBook Pro, when it's sitting on my desk. Right now I'm typing on a standard Mac keyboard in my lap, and have to reach up to use the MBP trackpad.
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by colomon 17y ago
That's funny, I tried using the Visitor Pattern very heavily for a while, and ended up deciding it wasn't worth the trouble. Using it made me feel very virtuous and proper for a few years, but I've rarely if ever used it in the decade sinc
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by colomon 17y ago
Actually, Rakudo Star is probably about two months off at the moment. Q2 was the originally announced timeframe, then April was batted about, but the lead developer has had major family health issues taking up his time, so we elected to pu
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by colomon 17y ago
I'm presuming this is a joke, because given the restrictions Apple has stuck on emulators, I can't see them letting a version of MAME (presumably with illegally copied ROMs?) through. That said, it's a killer idea, and I think it might well
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by colomon 17y ago
The last time I can recall listening to an entire album while doing absolutely nothing else was 1995. (Jethro Tull, "Roots to Branches")
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by colomon 17y ago
And there is also a good amount of jazz music with lyrics. In fact, there is very little music out there in any genre that has the lyrical heft that Jon Hendricks or Kurt Elling have in their denser vocaleses. But yeah, on your first point
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by colomon 17y ago
Hey, please leave off with the negative stereotypes of librarians...
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by colomon 17y ago
Glad to see there is a prettier way of doing it in Haskell! Do I understand then that this basically building up a sort of parallel language for expressions in Haskell which optimize really, really well?
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by colomon 17y ago
Their code is import qualified Data.Vector as U main = print . U.sum $ U.enumFromTo 1 (100000000 :: Int) Possibly it's just because I don't grok Haskell, but that strikes me as incredibly ugly for such a simple operation. As
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by colomon 17y ago
For the record, I've written 18,000+ test cases in the last year. When you can write reasonable tests, they are an awesome tool for programming. I just object strongly to the notion that any possible bug can be reduced to an automated tes
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by colomon 17y ago
And of course, the testing for any bug can be easily automated. Not! Look, some things are very easy to test in unit tests: Does sin(180) return the right value? If I do operation X on supposedly const object O, does O have the same value
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by colomon 17y ago
Is there a "no longer" missing in that first sentence? Or am I missing something on the SEAforth / GreenArrays web pages? What I see on the SEAforth page seems to suggest that FORTHdrive was discontinued last year.... :(
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by colomon 17y ago
The other thing I keep thinking is, if you're seriously worried about kids not being able to learn to program because their only computing devices are locked down, why not fight back by developing kid-friendly web-based programming platform
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by colomon 17y ago
It sounds like a small thing, but I'm glad just to see an article which doesn't just assume that people who are underwater were foolish or reckless buying a house in the first place. I bought well within what I could afford in 2001, and ro
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by colomon 17y ago
I don't understand the impatient people here. TextMate 1.0 is pretty easily the best editor I have ever used for programming. The lousy multi-file search, my major complaint with it, is no longer an issue thanks to the terrific Ack bundle
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by colomon 17y ago
That's because you're leaving the house and getting away from a constant distraction. This is exactly why trying to work from home at the same time you are being a stay-from-home-parent is incredibly hard. Believe me, I've tried doing prog

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