elblanco

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by elblanco 16y ago
Wow, '99-'00 was a rough year for MSFT.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> he's far from an apple fanboy. I agree. In order to make great things, and then to sustain that, I really truly believe you have to grow to dislike what you made before. It's the only way to take a critical eye one what you have done
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by elblanco 16y ago
value is also an almost meaningless term. How many times have we all seen the infomercials that sell some gadget at a $50 "value" but they'll sell it to you for only $19.95?
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by elblanco 16y ago
I was not aware that D and Lua had the JVM as targets.
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by elblanco 16y ago
>* including but not limited to Haskell, Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Scala and several ML variants * Any non-FP languages?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Great, more stuff to jam horizontally along my tab bar. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about putting things vertically?
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by elblanco 16y ago
> There are cases where this is painful, such as offline machines. But in those cases you can pack all of CPAN on a CD (with minicpan), or produce a self-contained Perl program + libraries with local::lib and/or PAR. Which is pretty muc
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yeah, I forgot about Catalyst true... Moose though is an example of what should just be part of the language. I'm glad to hear that Perl 6 will be doing some of what I want, it'll be a good start. But Perl really really needs the kinds of t
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by elblanco 16y ago
While I think CPAN is a fantastic resource (I wish other languages had something even half as good as CPAN for a centralized repository of various libraries and other odds and ends), it's not a standard library, it's a collection of libra
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by elblanco 16y ago
IMHO, the things that Perl really has to do are no so much the clever syntax designs and run-times etc. which while cool to people interested in languages and how they work, don't really allow the language itself to be used in larger scoped
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yes, next question?
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by elblanco 16y ago
The best response would be to stop mucking with the information that your users want to be private.
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by elblanco 16y ago
In actuality, the pipe-style programming paradigm is like a data flow language. Similar to LabView ( https://www.ni.com/labview/ ) or XEE ( http://www.futurepointsystems.com/?page=products ). Output from one becomes the input to another com
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by elblanco 16y ago
Is the new JIT compiler a listed feature of Froyo? Does the iPhone run non-native compiled software?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Okay, so maybe "die" was a bit strong. :) Immunoglobulin E antibody presence is the only meaningful definition for "allergic" in the literature. You are right, there are different degrees of immune system response w/r to IgE response. But n
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by elblanco 16y ago
Having an interesting conversation with a Korean the other day. She mentioned that in Korean there are various word and conjugation choices you have to make based on honorifics. What she didn't realize is that English has something similar
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by elblanco 16y ago
And sometimes the radical can give you hints at pronunciation because often the words will rhyme.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Even today the distinction between "Japanese" and "Chinese" readings is used when teaching Kanji, and Koreans are much more commonly aware of the distinction between words of Chinese and native Korean etymology than English speakers
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by elblanco 16y ago
>No, strictly speaking they were reading Chinese text in Chinese. That's only partially correct though. Often as not, before Hangul was introduced in Korea, or Latin alphabets were modified for Vietnam, many people wrote their venacular
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by elblanco 16y ago
The world would be a much better place if China just moved on to Bopomofo (Zhuyin Fuhao) which most people know pretty well from elementary school. It captures Mandarin morphology pretty well (better than Latin captures English for sure) an
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm going to have to partially dispute you. I'll get to the point, but first let's define clearly, what is an allergy, an intolerance and what's coeliac disease. Some raw numbers, wheat (gluten) allergies affect less than 1% of the populati
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by elblanco 16y ago
You can tether with other phones on AT&T in the U.S. without problem. It's only the iPhone that appears to have the problem.
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by elblanco 16y ago
In the U.S. at least, the iPhone does not tether without jailbreaking it.
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by elblanco 16y ago
That's okay, if you don't care about JIT, the laundry list of other stuff still proves the point.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Don't forget eggs, bananas, peaches (and relatives), onions, carrots, etc. (include most foods, yes I've known people with fantastically, life threatening, sensitive allergies to these foods). One of my favorites is the genetic differences
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by elblanco 16y ago
Simple, look at the feature list for Froyo. All things the iPhone most clearly does not do. Even discounting flash, these things are among the most requested things that people want their iPhones to do: like tethering, wi-fi hotspots, jit
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by elblanco 16y ago
Love easily turns into hate.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Interesting to bring the Zune into the discussion. In the past it was always Apple vs. Microsoft. Recently it's been Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google. In the mobile space though it's very clearly becoming Apple vs. Google even though Microsof
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's due to the low pressure. Like with these guys. http://www.acenovelty.com/donace/coffeepen06.jpg
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Drooled over the Crunchpad too and we all know how that went. I know, it's awesome how it turned into an iPad!

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