johkra

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   by johkra 16y ago

   I would recommend the Asus UL30A - 1.7kg, 13", very long battery life, about 650€ with 4GB RAM, silver color and matte screen. It has also good Linux compatibility. The display could be better, but I have yet to find a notebook screen with
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   by johkra 16y ago

   Haskell actually has something like a package manager: I only install the GHC and then use cabal to install any applications. (cabal install pandoc, for instance.)
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   by johkra 16y ago

   Yep! I use emacs + swank-clojure + slime. So, the future (of dynamic language tools) is actually the past. I'll have to give it a try - I'm surely interested in seeing what ideas can be stolen for another language's editor.
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   by johkra 16y ago

   I used to have lot of open, long-standing concerns about the future of programming and productivity, but my sabbatical last year finally brought me some clojure. Mh, out of Steve Yegge's mouth, that's interesting to hear. I guess emacs is
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   by johkra 16y ago

   If you're the only person understanding a system, it's a great risk for the company. They will eventually replace the old system and then you're worthless to them.
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   by johkra 16y ago

   Actually "Jäger" is the german word for "hunter" and it's always written with umlaut. No metal umlaut for you. ;-)
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   by johkra 16y ago

   There's a transcript underneath the video. The site design has room for improvement, but it works fine with readability. Flag: infoq = with transcript
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   by johkra 16y ago

   Interesting opinion - but you're not the only one. :-) My current phone is a Nokia 1208 - it offers all necessary functionality, a good battery life and was cheap to buy unlocked. My only criticism is the phone's thickness of 1.7cm - and th
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   by johkra 16y ago

   That's indeed very impressive. I hope they are recording and putting the videos online.
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    by johkra 16y ago

    LuaJIT is great and it's very interesting. (In fact, I've been reading through its source code trying to understand the magic.) My impression is that the developer is reading the important papers and putting the theory into practice. It's i
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Reading about these efforts leaves me very excited about the possible performance improvements of dynamic language in the next few years. It reminds me of Dynamo ( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1.html ). Please, someone
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I like the condition system. I knew it from Lisp, but I never thought about it consciously. For interactive systems, it seems superior to stopping execution due to an unhandled exception. It's similar to the SmallTalk debugger asking you wh
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I agree. DabbleDB's user interface is great - user friendly, intuitive and yet with many useful features. I don't care much about Twitter, but I hope the team has a good experience there.
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I thought the right face was more attractive - it looks "warmer" (nicer, friendlier) than the left one. I must be doing something wrong, like preferring women with whom I would like to be friends. ;-)
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I had to smile, when I read the head line and later the article. During my first year of university, I wrote a verb conjugation engine and a very simple webserver for the UI (I wanted cross-plattform compatibility and it was easier than lea
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Does (((λ f . (λ x . (f x))) (λ a . a)) (λ b . b))) reduce into the identity function?
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I'm trying to get a hold of the META II paper from 1962 he mentions, it sounds very interesting. Is there anyone who read the paper and could give me his/her opinion? (Fortunately, the university library has an ACM subscription.)
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    by johkra 16y ago

    German for instance, uses Peking and Turin, too. I don't know about Peking, but Turin is actually the name in the local dialect. Torino is proper Italian. [1] My guess is that Turin is the older name which got established in the English and
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Wait, a browser plugin can crash your whole operating system? Or do you mean your browser crashed? (Both don't exactly inspire confidence in the Mac platform) I just watched it in Firefox on Linux and apart from a quite long time of pre-ren
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I had a look at the architecture of the B5000 system they're talking of ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems ). It's really completely different from today's architectures and I have the feeling we're emulating a lot of th
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    by johkra 16y ago

    How does one represent Lisp as byte code anyway? I had a look at http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/instr-set.html and this is my idea: (1 2 3 4) => Push 4; Push 3; Push 2; Push 1 In other words: Lists are simply pushed onto the stack, pr
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    Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (2007)(bentwookie.org)

    22 points by johkra 16y ago|8 comments
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I seem to have one of the outliers. Well, let's wait for the detailed analysis to see whether my test cases were good enough. ;-)
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    by johkra 16y ago

    OT: I'm surprised how well I can read Esperanto, although I - of course - don't understand everything. (I speak some German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.)
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    by johkra 16y ago

    After submitting, I was embarrassed when I compared my solution to other people's elegant 4 liners. But then I had another look at my code and it captures exactly how I thought about the problem. I think I would be happy to write code like
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Thanks, this solved that problem. Unfortunately it fails to build array-0.2.0.0 and I'll just wait until it's compatible with more recent versions of the Haskell Platform.
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I was looking forward to trying it, but then I had a problem installing it. (That's on Linux 32bit) $ cabal -V cabal-install version 0.8.2 using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library $ ghc -V The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compila
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Please check the profile, it mentions the AntiSpam measure (adding HackerNews to the subject): http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes
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    by johkra 16y ago

    Oh, "Java Virtual Machine" is a scripting language now... (Page 6 of the Court's decision in German) To understand the technical aspect, have a look at (14) in the court's decision - at first I got a heart attack since it talked about runni
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    by johkra 16y ago

    I'm getting Confessions of a Public Speaker , I was long interested in this book.