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by gngeal 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_files... Now what could the "RT" part possibly mean?
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by gngeal 13y ago
"A language that doesn't need a runtime, like C?" The language perhaps doesn't, but most actual programs do. I'm definitely not going to write my own standard library just because I can.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Don't forget BeagleBone Black for ~$45, with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 application CPU and two additional independent 200MHz control MCUs.
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by gngeal 13y ago
That's exactly the reason why nobody would check for it! :-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
I fancied the notion of stealth poisoning by heavy water. Who'd bother to actually check for it?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Yawn, is someone calling social networks "the tech sector" again? Yeah, right, because material science and industrial automation technology and others are obviously agriculture or something.
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by gngeal 13y ago
If you're interested in type systems (and as a Haskeller, I imagine you are) Bah! Interested, definitely yes, but I share Alan Kay's point of view that "I like type systems but I don't know any that doesn't suck&q
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by gngeal 13y ago
We're talking languages here; the way a grammar construct helps the programmer. So do I. We've had CSP, Occam, Newsqueak, Alef, Limbo; now we have Erlang and Go. I'm just puzzled by the walled garden phenomenon present in s
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by gngeal 13y ago
but there is a lot to love in C# and .NET that have been there for a long time. Real generics. Real generics, as in generic programming? As in, this: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Generics ?
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by gngeal 13y ago
C#5 added async/await, which I think is one of the most 'integrated' ways I've seen of doing async programming. What's with the C# developers ans async/await? Almost every time I read their exhortations it fe
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by gngeal 13y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far, I haven't seem him providing the latter.
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by gngeal 13y ago
There are so many people out there who are delusional...the truthers, the "Moon landing hoax" folks; even Nobel prize winners can be susceptible, just recall Pauling and Shockley. Also, Bobby Fischer. This guy could easily have fa
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by gngeal 13y ago
A Swedish guy rooting for thorium? Odin's beard, how surprising! (Jokes aside, I've been in love with this idea since my high school studies of nuclear engineering. I know a lot of these things didn't pan out eventually, but
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by gngeal 13y ago
False dichotomy. Both of them can have too much power simultaneously! :)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Coast Guard has the right to board any nautical vessel for inspection, no? Is it actually a nautical vessel, or just a floating anchored data center? If the latter, it may still be a vessel technically but there won't be much "n
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by gngeal 13y ago
Please don't tell me that developing client apps on Windows was so much worse then doing it on Linux. Uh, what Linux? No, pg worked on Lisp Machines before, and that's why Windows were hurting him so much.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Was not sure what to expect when I first saw the title. I expected something along the lines of Erlang: The Movie . (I'm also surprised that there are still people who don't know about Self.)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Software is slowing down faster than hardware is speeding up. Write your own; that's the only way of staying sane. (It's especially atrocious with vertical market applications, of course. Not only does the SW I used to use in th
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by gngeal 13y ago
Either they go to FB or DM over Twitter or some other "social thing", but they view email as far more cumbersome. E-mail clients need to be reinvented. There's no real reason for e-mail operation to be cumbersome. I mean, w
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by gngeal 13y ago
Okay, so you're a snob. No, I'm just an introvert. I have a few people to who I feel deeply connected to, and our exchanges are rare yet substantial. But these don't require IM or anything like that. I don't know anyth
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by gngeal 13y ago
"Texting is expensive and regional, and nobody uses email, wants to remember email addresses or IM handles, or deal with spam. WhatsApp totally fucked themselves by not running on tablets. For lots of people, the most effective way to
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by gngeal 13y ago
Could you elaborate on that? Since that doesn't make too much sense to me. From what I know, the movement goes in the opposite direction: much of what was considered "grammar" in the past has been reinterpreted as a part of t
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by gngeal 13y ago
So you set out to create a device that would ensnare normal, rational people and turn them into ranting lunatics. You mean like a mosque or a church? ducks
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by gngeal 13y ago
What makes you think they aren't getting faster?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Google Chrome not only uses bloom filters for malicious URL filtering but also as a part of the CSS selector matching process. I'm not sure how exactly, but allegedly, it gives them a nice speed bump in majority of the cases without co
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by gngeal 13y ago
Any chance this is related to the relevant biological/neurological/robotics terminology?
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by gngeal 13y ago
"Eh, no need to call in the Grammar Squad." Obviously, as this is in the purview of the Lexicology Squad, not the Grammar Squad. "Hacker News did bring something about as a result." Except that Hacker News did not br
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by gngeal 13y ago
First thought: 1998, Lou Reed, Plastic People of the Universe, and Václav Havel in the White House: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.16834349884.22255....
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by gngeal 13y ago
This thing is written in ML, not in Haskell, and the GHC docs themselves claim that Cmm (the GHC thingy) is "is rather like C--. The syntax is almost C-- (a few constructs are missing), and it is augmented with some macros that are ex
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by gngeal 13y ago
Uh, I believe that the GHC C-- (Cmm) is one of the dozen different C--es that have nothing in common with this project save for the name.

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