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by cwp 11y ago
Yes, it is a continuation, although it's more comprehensive than call/cc. When you save a Smalltalk image it serializes not only the call stack but the entire heap. It's rather like a core dump that can resume executing. It&#
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by cwp 11y ago
Actually, those are the very languages I had in mind. Perl too. Yes, they have many more active developers than Smalltalk. But you know what? I was part of the Ruby community before Rails, and it was tiny. That was after it had been around
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by cwp 11y ago
Sigh. Nothing killed Smalltalk. It's not dead. Neither is Scheme. Yeah, both of those languages have pretty small communities, but that's viable in the Internet Age. Heck, even Self, which nobody ever used for actual shipping soft
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by cwp 11y ago
As an engineer it's pretty easy to get used to dismissing opinions about technology from people that don't understand it. At times that's reasonable, but it's also easy to take it way too far. Sam seems to have a healthy
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by cwp 11y ago
I suppose so. Nix allows me to run N services on M machines arbitrarily with no virtualization and no overhead. My team builds a distributed application. We have nix expressions that define packages for all the parts of the application, and
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by cwp 11y ago
Yeah, Nix on SmartOS would be awesome. With the right filesystem jiggery, the nix store could be shared across zones. That would make the whole system faster and more efficient. Also, specifying a Manta job via next would be amazing. I&#x27
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by cwp 11y ago
The appeal of Docker is that containers give you repeatable deployments. Once you have an image, you can deploy it in a well-defined way. But it punts on the question of how you build the image. Nix provides repeatable deployments at the pa
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by cwp 11y ago
Yeah, I use npm2nix a lot, and it does produce very large files (a few thousand lines of code). But in practice it's fine. I very rarely look at the generated code. If I need to update a dependency, I change my package.json file, run n
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by cwp 11y ago
These days Squeak uses Monticello, which is a modern DVCS.
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by cwp 11y ago
Yup. This is pretty much what I do as well, but for Node and Python projects. The best part is that I develop in exactly the same environment that the app has in deployment.
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by cwp 11y ago
I appreciate the idea of going after a very strong mandate. If he runs that way, and wins, he has a very convincing case that the people want him to make the reforms he promised. But, it also makes it very hard for him to win. He has to fin
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by cwp 11y ago
I'd love to see a Smalltalk VM running directly on Xen. The language has always been a bit awkward on PCs because in its heart it still wants to be the OS for a Xerox Alto. It ought to be right at home on virtual metal!
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by cwp 11y ago
I was waiting for the paragraph that read "I'm not talking about pure functional languages because X, nor am I talking about Rust, because Y." So, yeah, uncontrolled side-effect are a PITA. Solutions exist.
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by cwp 11y ago
Mine too. And companies have done that. It's great.
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by cwp 11y ago
Still, you should welcome this debate. It makes "shorter copyright length" seem like a reasonable compromise, rather than crazy and radical as the publishers would portray it.
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by cwp 11y ago
In the article, they talk about brightness in terms of lumens per watt. That boils down to energy efficiency: you can get a brighter display with the same battery life, OR keep the same brightness and get better life.
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by cwp 11y ago
Considering the environmental impact of diverting whole watersheds to Southern California and the the power requirements of pumping it over mountain ranges, this seems like a great way to end the drought. The only reason it hasn't been
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by cwp 11y ago
Wow. I knew it's been a long time, I didn't realize I joined so near the beginning. Mine has "Why we made this site" submitted by pg.
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by cwp 11y ago
No. This is the whole point of promises.
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by cwp 11y ago
Wow. A clear violation of Betteridge's Law. Yes, most people have an irrational fear of radiation. I've run into the Fukushima thing myself. People think of it as a horrible disaster , and when I point out that the death toll is
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by cwp 11y ago
He didn't say "all browsers", he said the majority. It's been a long time since the majority of web traffic came from IE.
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by cwp 11y ago
So, by "narrow issues of statutory construction," you mean the laws he was charged with breaking don't actually apply to what he did? I wouldn't go so far as to call him "innocent", but it sounds to me like his
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by cwp 11y ago
You also have to be willing to kill all the people currently living on it.
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by cwp 11y ago
I agree. The value of SN is that it's abstract . It assumes a certain structure (the one that western music uses) and describes melody in terms of that structure. It doesn't concern itself with the actual sounds involved (eg. fre
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by cwp 11y ago
Sure it is. All parts of a Smalltalk program are present as objects that can be manipulated by sending them messages. Classes, methods, variable bindings, closures, stack frames, even individual messages are objects. As a practical matter,
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by cwp 11y ago
Just curious about this sentence: > There are package managers out there that are cleanly factored from the underlying OS (Homebrew, Nix) but they aren’t typically used in Docker images. I agree that Homebrew is probably not useful. It&#
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by cwp 11y ago
Yes. See Smalltalk for a language with object-oriented homoiconicity.
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by cwp 11y ago
You don't think N(M-1)/M sites not being affected by the next heartbleed wouldn't be significant?
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by cwp 11y ago
No! Let's have many implementations all with completely separate code bases. Then when the next security bug is found it won't affect the whole internet.
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by cwp 11y ago
Deviousness? You're saying you're too clever to fall for their diabolical plan to give you the information you're looking for?

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