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by cygwin98 15y ago
That's GREAT news. Delicious is one of the web apps I can't live without. Hope the new company can update the firefox plugin such that I can upgrade to Firefox 4.
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Mirage on Xen: OS No More(openmirage.org)
3 points by cygwin98 15y ago|0 comments
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Here are my random thoughts about the reasons (not in a specific order): 1. they are not part of a software company, say, not generating revenue directly, so they are not high on the payroll list 2. the pay is based on the overall performan
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Mirage : OS runs on top of Xen Hypervisor, written in OCaml(openmirage.org)
1 points by cygwin98 15y ago|0 comments
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Maybe I misunderstood this article. It seems to me there is a security issue in X Server, which gives out keyboard input info to all running X apps. That's fine. If that's X Server, just fix it then everyone will be happy. Why introduces al
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by cygwin98 15y ago
That makes sense. For example, standard SQL is not considered a programming language, as it's not turing complete, neither is HTML for the same reason. Interestingly, some proprietary SQL dialects such as PL/SQL (Oracle) and T-SQL (Microsof
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by cygwin98 15y ago
When one of my external hard drives failed, I decided to backup my photo library to some online storage space. After some quick research, I settled down at Google Picasa Web, the price was very affordable ($5/year can buy you 20GB). It also
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Picasa Web for Online Photo Backup? Not at this moment(google.com)
2 points by cygwin98 15y ago|1 comments
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Actually, there was a heated discussion on such an issue a month ago at Reddit [1], when AWS started acting up back then. Someone was asking why cann't Reddit buy beefy servers and co-lo them. The arguments were that considering the traffic
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Thanks for the info. Surprisingly, when I was googling RBParser, I got two different results: one being the RBParser class from Smalltalk (I guess that's the one you meant), the other is a new project with the same name hosted on github [1]
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by cygwin98 15y ago
The intriguing part of PLCSD to me is that it uses F#, which is the language I use as the tool for my project, :) I took compiler course during my university days, so the theory part is not a big issue to me. That's why this free book comes
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what projects the students have to implement for the course?
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Maybe it's just me. I feel HN has become very sluggish this morning. Does that mean lots of redditors come over here? Edit: Wierd, got downvoted. I do think this is related to the topic, so the failure of Amazon can have a domino effect, sa
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by cygwin98 15y ago
As I've been working on my pet compiler project recently, I began to collect some compiler-related online resources, this book is one of the hidden gems. The author (Torben Mogensen) has been so generous to give it out for free, that's why
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Out of curiosity, by parsers and compiler-compilers did you mean Lex and Yacc? It is always a significant undertaking to implement a dynamic language in that way.
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DuinOS: small and simple rtos for Arduino(arduino.cc)
1 points by cygwin98 15y ago|0 comments
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Basics of Compiler Design(diku.dk)
158 points by cygwin98 15y ago|10 comments
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Getting Started with FSharpChart - fsharpteam(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by cygwin98 15y ago|0 comments
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New update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release(blogs.msdn.com)
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by cygwin98 15y ago
My concern is that those combinations can significantly reduce Rails apps' maintainability. I wonder if jQuery is that good, can it be rewritten in CoffeeScript? Such that we can settle down at CoffeeScript, which looks like a better langua
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by cygwin98 15y ago
So in 3.1, if you were to write frontend code, are you supposed to write it in CoffeeScript, or jQuery?
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Maybe I misunderstood the situation here. I thought the adoption of CoffeeScript is more like going the GWT way (not quite, but similar) --- you write code in CoffeeScript and let it generate all vanilla Javascript code doing the frontend w
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by cygwin98 15y ago
I recall there was a post a week ago saying that Rails 3.1 will go with CoffeeScript. Maybe they received lots of negative feedback on that shot, so they fall back to plan B.
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by cygwin98 15y ago
# pwd /usr/ken # vi vi: not found Wow, it's like I was traveling in a time machine back to 70's and saw Ken Thompson hacking. One thing that has always taken for granted is that vi is the ubiquitous editor in Unix world, it's NOT true, :)
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by cygwin98 15y ago
Is recur kind of workaround? Any performance penalty? Please bear with me as I'm not familiar with Lisp family languages. I'm interested in ML languages. There is a project to port OCaml to JVM, but I don't see any sign of progress, so I th
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by cygwin98 15y ago
I keep hearing that current JVM implementation prevents tail call optimizations [1]. Is it still the case nowadays? Kind of curious on that since there seem to be lots of folks on HN use Clojure in production systems. [1] http://stackoverf
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by cygwin98 15y ago
As brilliant as the algorithms listed in the book are, I find them less and less interesting in and out of themselves nowadays. Those data structures and search algorithms have really become basics. I just don't understand why people still
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by cygwin98 15y ago
I played with googlecl for a bit and quite amazed by what it can do. However, in order to use vim as the editor, the user has to always append '--editor vim' to the command line, which feels a little awkward to me. I want more than that, sa
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by cygwin98 16y ago
There are some insights in this article. In fact modern time companies were originally formed in a very similar way as military units. Although in military when losing a battle, an incompetent general can lose his army and/or his life, a CE
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by cygwin98 16y ago
That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

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