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by jk4930 15y ago
There is one from the market leader, it's called GNAT and it's part of the GCC: http://libre.adacore.com/libre/
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Fabric Engine: JavaScript as fast as C++(h-online.com)
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by jk4930 15y ago
I think it comes from the following: Ada was designed to be robust against the average programmer. They prefer to "hack" around and have their program just compiling. Compared to, say, scripting languages Ada ist restrictive. I feel they di
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by jk4930 15y ago
My personal guesses why Ada lost: In (Western) academia was a massive dislike of Ada because of its DoD roots and NATO applications, so they didn't use it for teaching. And hackers disliked it because it was a committee-designed language an
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by jk4930 15y ago
They want a language that's safe, concurrent, blabla, and good for system programming? Then they should take a look at Ada 2012. But I guess they just want to build something themselves. They could even make use of Ada's real time capabilit
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by jk4930 15y ago
Nice trolling. Ada wasn't the problem, a decision to disable a warning for efficiency reasons was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501
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by jk4930 15y ago
Then they should use Ada. If it's good enough for high integrity applications in space, transportation, or banking, then it's certainly good enough for browsers. ;)
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by jk4930 15y ago
You might be interested in the discussion there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427488
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by jk4930 15y ago
Defining oneself has the consequence to set your own goals instead of only following the goals of others (you might join other people's quests, but you're now free to not do so without falling into existential boredom). You switch from exte
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by jk4930 15y ago
Yes, for everything except editing word documents. :)
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Two types of VC managers(physorg.com)
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by jk4930 15y ago
+1 on this. It's a great book (not finished yet). What I like is that it's like a review (even rediscovery) of mathematical basics and how powerful they are, coupled with the beauty of Haskell. I know it sounds cheesy but _that_ is like, we
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by jk4930 15y ago
They are "Fully Prepared for the Past": http://systems-thinkers.org/resources/resource/the_systems_b...
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Regenerative Medicine Against Aging(techtv.mit.edu)
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New version of German spy software (targeting more programs and platforms)(h-online.com)
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by jk4930 15y ago
Enroll at one of these: http://singularityu.org/programs/executive-programs/ Or get ideas from those: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ Or come to Berlin for a coffee and some inspirations.
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by jk4930 15y ago
It's inherent in (human) systems to encroach. Read this and the following five chapters and gain enlightenment: http://www.draftymanor.com/bart/systems1.htm Or tl;dr: Humans in a system resist to lose power, instead they aim for making th
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by jk4930 15y ago
I'm not demotivated by taxes as such. What demotivates me a bit is when high taxes are applied to moderate incomes (see cold progression http://www.economypoint.org/c/cold-progression.html as we call it in Germany). What demotivates me mo
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by jk4930 15y ago
I'd like advise to read http://www.draftymanor.com/bart/systems1.htm and the five following chapters, too. I have the book by Gall and it's both an amusing and informative read (especially if one has some background in complex systems). T
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Systemantics (how systems work and fail)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jk4930 15y ago
In the Western city you have more the established businesses, in the Eastern city you have more the experimental and new ones. Both have their (dis)advantages, it depends on your industry / business model and who your customers are. I would
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by jk4930 15y ago
You have this kind of insanity practically in every place with a bureaucrazy. It's not unique for Germany. You shouldn't worry too much, there's always a way around or through.
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The Birth of Plenty (Chapter 1)(efficientfrontier.com)
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by jk4930 15y ago
Manifesto vs. empirics: "The corporate culture of hidden champions is distinctive. Their values are conservative: hard work, strict selection, intolerance of underperformance, low sickness rates and high employee loyalty — and most are base
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by jk4930 15y ago
> unless presented as reason that popular opinion will not support them. That was implicitly part of my message, yes. They're certainly not hacking the social perception... > Being able to predict their agenda from their physical ap
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by jk4930 15y ago
Well, my observations aren't cliches but come from actual contact with these people. And they aren't geeks, certainly not (that some of them actually wrote some perl programs doesn't make them geeks). My "insults" are factual observations a
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by jk4930 15y ago
Where's the problem? This is something I do tell people into their faces (because it's true) and it's not the start of a flamewar but my educated observation (being in politics for more than 16 years). All my points mentioned are relevant t
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by jk4930 15y ago
German Pirate Party == leftist pot heads (mostly coming from the green and socialist parties) with some affinity to computers. Most of them are obese. And usually don't shower. And don't know how to dress. It's pathetic. :) Now they try to
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by jk4930 16y ago
I had a similar case in a programming class, too. We worked in teams of two, I wrote the programs for the weekly tests (they were required to write the exam), she had no idea about data types, she couldn't compile, she had no practical unde
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by jk4930 16y ago
First, it's "for teh lulz". Second, it's not 4chan but ebaumsworld. Third, tits or gtfo, Danah.

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