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by gngeal 14y ago
Reiser4 is in a weird place... ...and so is Hans. :-) (Sorry, I couldn't resist :-))
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by gngeal 14y ago
"maybe not for a power developer" I'd expect an actual "power developer" to be able to cope with any kind of environment! :-) A proper hacker should be able to make a Chromebook do virtually anything.
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by gngeal 14y ago
Ah, interesting. And quite punny, given the foundations! But I don't think it's like anyone forces you to use the libs. I'd probably "go to the bedrock" (like the author of FOX Toolkit did) anyway if I had to write something on top of LÖVE.
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by gngeal 14y ago
"The problem is that the CSV file format has no reliable mechanism to mark a column as text( )."* The problem is that there is NO such thing a "the CSV file format". There's only a lot of different interpretations of how to store data in
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by gngeal 14y ago
That's still a better uptime than any computer I've ever seen! (Come to think of it, with my health and with my luck, that's a better uptime than my mortal solenoid is probably ever going to have... :/)
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by gngeal 14y ago
What library names? I've never noticed that in LÖVE's docs.
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by gngeal 14y ago
No, it's strawberry jam, can't you tell? (I'm sorry for the sarcasm, you've sort of asked for it. I'm officially curious: what else did you think it was?)
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by gngeal 14y ago
"Scripting languages are interpreted" Uhm, no. There is no such implication.
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by gngeal 14y ago
I'd actually argue that Javascript's object model, given its current usages, is close to ideal - but not perfect. It would be better if the language provided a set of kernel functionalities for you to build whatever higher object model you
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by gngeal 14y ago
"Isn't Ada the scripting language of the U.S. Department of Defense?" It's a language for writing airplane control systems that fail when you cross the international date line. ;)
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by gngeal 14y ago
Yes, but in that case, you go to your psychologist/psychiatrist/neurologist to take care of yourself, not to your local energy provider.
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by gngeal 14y ago
"They're pretty loud, and it's a rhythmic low frequency drone sound." I've seen some studies that indicated that the infra-sound levels from city traffic are significantly stronger than the noise coming from wind turbines conforming to es
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by gngeal 14y ago
"I love looking at windmills too but then I don't look and listen to them all day." Is looking at them significantly worse than looking at the car traffic on a major street in the rush hour? As far as the sound is concerned, I doubt that
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by gngeal 14y ago
With 100% grid-supplied power, changes in load are driven by slow-moving, predictable systems like sunrise/sunset, weather, and seasons. If you are running your own solar array, though, you will vary your grid load on much shorter time s
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by gngeal 14y ago
That's not very good reasoning. If all software patents are bunk, so are many electrical engineering patents. I hope that the second sentence is not supposed to be a substantiation for the first one. If anything, it's an example of why th
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by gngeal 14y ago
Self-93, the language that pioneered this approach for dynamic native compilation, celebrates it 20th birthday this year.
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by gngeal 14y ago
"Most garbage collected languages can't handle all the memory available on modern systems." I don't think that has anything to do with the languages. I think that has everything to do with the quality of the memory manager implementation,
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by gngeal 14y ago
If they know the device is stolen and don't cooperate with legal authorities, aren't they as criminally liable as a private individual who buys a stolen device and doesn't care about it?
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by gngeal 14y ago
"Please, for the sake of $DIETY" If you worship food, that is. But you're right, people calling proper tail calls "an optimization" should be shot. Those who survive the subsequent generation scavenging should be shot again. :-)
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by gngeal 14y ago
That would be useless. I believe the point of proper tail calls is that the set of functions that may be called from a particular call site is not closed. The callee may be a parameter of the caller, for example in combinator-style librarie
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by gngeal 14y ago
If nothing else, there is already a publishing service with the same name. If I were running it, I'd seriously consider some legal steps. This smells of potential defamation by association. "I've published my book on Lulu.com." "Oh, is t
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by gngeal 14y ago
Write a polar opposite. Push it through the same channels. If someone has it taken down, cry "sexism!" and demand the same for "Lulu" (an idiotic name, anyway). UPDATE: Or perhaps not. After looking at the web site, it seems that this servi
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by gngeal 14y ago
That won't help you much, if you, say, need the fusion of matrix operations I mentioned.
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by gngeal 14y ago
"No compiler is good enough to do what the good libraries do." That's nonsense. And if you take a look, say, at NumPy, which uses heavily tuned BLAS/LAPACK code, and Numexpr, which uses the "compile the snippet and run it" approach, you'll
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by gngeal 14y ago
"Life typically means just that - it's not some shorthand for a term of imprisonment." Can you show me an actual statistics on what percentage of "X faces life" in English texts relates to severe criminal charges, and what percentage mean
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by gngeal 14y ago
http://code.google.com/p/ta2as/ ... ?
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by gngeal 14y ago
"I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer." Given that the average costs of bringing up any single individual are nowadays probably at an all-time high, it makes sense to invest somethin
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by gngeal 14y ago
I think the obvious question is "why now suddenly, of all times"? First, it smells like a "me too" mentality, second, the Django people were savage animals before that? What's with all this code of conduct stuff jumping at people from the w
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by gngeal 14y ago
I believe that these languages do have a specified execution model (how would you execute them without one?), they just don't have any hard prescription as to how to map it onto hardware the same way that, for example, C does.
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by gngeal 14y ago
"A grown man that throws tantrums, belittles subordinates, and never admits when his company has made a mistake is not what I would call a born leader." So, one could easily compare him with Stalin, Hitler, and other people like these who h

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