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by gngeal 13y ago
Huh, there goes my plan to write a dynamic assembler in Go...
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by gngeal 13y ago
They host nothing except links. That was precisely my point. ;) (Basic math logic...)
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by gngeal 13y ago
They should vet everything they host.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Actually a language compiler is more complicated than a web server when speaking about the data-structures and the algorithms used That would depend on how much of the web environment you want to reproduce and what language we're talking
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by gngeal 13y ago
All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards). Technically, if I'm not mistaken, Go is (currently!) implemented in Plan 9 C, which is not the same thing as ISO C. Also
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by gngeal 13y ago
Without Go, you'd only ogle Google.
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by gngeal 13y ago
It's not just the form generation. I've given some thought to how one might work with a MVCC/MGA system such as the one you have in PostgreSQL and Firebird to make an interactive system with tabular display that would keep the beneficial pr
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by gngeal 13y ago
You know, this is where conciseness comes in handy. Another suspicion that I have (in addition to the one I've voiced elsewhere here) is that complex, inflexible languages almost force people to write stuff "by hand". What exactly is the re
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by gngeal 13y ago
You're right, I think; compilers, machine code, operating systems, every single part of the computer down to the silicon (really, understanding the germanium doping that allow the transistors to work) including the electrical engineering,
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by gngeal 13y ago
"Or creating an abstract-database-driven-xml-based UI framework to automate the creation of tabular data when you have under a dozen tables in the application." I'm not an experienced programmer, and I'd use that approach anyway, simply
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by gngeal 13y ago
I recently realized, e.g., that the HotSpot JVM is the R.M.S. Titanic, and invokedynamic (or any change in bytecode) is the iceberg. That's probably a reason why we're still waiting for lambdas, in-memory transactions, etc. It's too large t
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by gngeal 13y ago
There's a lot of water in animal bodies. I guess it's like trying to light a log of very wet wood, if not worse.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, one could build an atheist web site at http://here.sy :-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
To the cynic in me, all this just seems like Facebok and Google have not yet learnt to play with the the political big wigs. To the cynic in me, all this just seems like Facebook and Google have learned just fine how to play with the poli
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by gngeal 13y ago
One thing that for years made Fortran stand out is that the language explicitly assumes all arrays passed in to a subprogram have no overlaps. There's a HUGE number of languages that don't allow aliasing in this way. I wasn't thinking abo
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by gngeal 13y ago
If you think of a type as a set of possible values, then a subclass is actually a supertype—a superset of the possible values of its parent class—and likewise a superclass is a subtype. Nope. A subclass is usually (not always!) a subtype,
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by gngeal 13y ago
I wonder if they sing it for a fee, too...
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by gngeal 13y ago
That's because programmers still write code with off-by-one errors!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Why? Any objective reason?
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by gngeal 13y ago
"How could Google avoid taking a stance? Either they call it one thing or the other." Perhaps avoiding taking a stance could take the form of following the current practice of major players (UN and others)...?
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by gngeal 13y ago
I like metalanguages more than I like languages, and I guess that fits nicely with me having a schizoid personality disconnected from reality, as my mental health specialist says. So yes, there could be a link.
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by gngeal 13y ago
"science and technology have been stagnant for the past 50 years." Exactly, especially the continued use of old drugs, lack of modern genetics, continued use of Bakelite and iron instead of aiming to develop newer materials such as compos
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by gngeal 13y ago
The latter is unlikely, as the oldest person still alive was born in 1897.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I fail to see why one can't manipulate parsed SQL's AST. I think that this is the "every problem in CS can be solved by another layer of indirection" part. You're basically sidestepping the issue of SQL not providing the functionality i
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by gngeal 13y ago
But those weren't doing house calls and were under guard. :)
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by gngeal 13y ago
"The only problem I see, is we can't rewrite SQL." I believe that the phrase you're looking for is "lack of compositionality".
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by gngeal 14y ago
Anyway, almost all modern rockets don't use fins. ...they don't start working until you're fast enough (quite high above the ramp, which is a sensitive area where you really need it) and they stop working once you leave the atmosphere (
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by gngeal 14y ago
If you can deal with slight decreases in thrust, you can also do thrust vectoring with injecting water or other suitable liquid into the nozzle in proper places. Could be mechanically simpler than gimbals in some cases.
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by gngeal 14y ago
What exactly is a "regular luxury car"? It sounds like an interesting designation for any article. If it's regular, is it still a luxury?
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by gngeal 14y ago
I seriously thought that this was going to be about the unbreathable air and destroyed environment in and around Norilsk...

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