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by jpr 16y ago
> I just think that sometimes we see "Janitor" and think that it's automatically bad. Some people, sometimes, probably. Me, most of the time, no. Currently I'd be rather happy if I were a janitor. Easy going job, lot's of time to think
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by jpr 16y ago
Well, pointers have fixed size, random structures may be arbitrarily big and involve a crapload of copying.
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by jpr 16y ago
Even if that happened to work correctly (which I don't believe), you would still be missing a bunch of macro-related stuff that makes CL the programmable programming language it is, and Python isn't: -reader-macros -symbol-macros -compiler-
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by jpr 16y ago
A link for the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
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by jpr 16y ago
Would be consistent with the tendency of majority of programmers to select the crummiest possible language because some platform that necessitates its use fluked into popularity.
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by jpr 16y ago
It baffles my mind that Javascript isn't hated on more.
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by jpr 16y ago
And here I had always thought that loser-pays was a universal rule. This explains almost everything that is crazy about US.
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by jpr 16y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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by jpr 16y ago
The site seems to be down, or is it just me?
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by jpr 16y ago
Because OpenBSD community isn't arrogant enough for you.
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by jpr 16y ago
It can't be worse than sitting for extended periods.
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by jpr 16y ago
But it still uses an internal combustion engine, which have a horrible energy efficiency. I wonder how such a bad technology has lasted for so long?
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by jpr 16y ago
Maybe in the wet dreams of the DRM-lobbyists. I think this is closer to truth: http://funnythirdthing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GxzeV....
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by jpr 16y ago
Sometimes I wonder how many gigabytes of flamewars about "coding style" C-like syntax has caused.
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by jpr 16y ago
Is it really no IE or just no IE in top ten?
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by jpr 16y ago
If this ever becomes popular, I expect orthorexia rates to soar.
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by jpr 16y ago
I almost can't believe the #3, restarting a webserver for minor changes? That reeks of static, batch-language oriented solution. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with static batch-languages, but I wouldn't have thought Scheme is
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by jpr 16y ago
No, they don't. People driving them kill people.
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by jpr 16y ago
Great stuff. I think I'm developing a severe case of nerd crush on Zed. The part about linguistic experience was especially good. I have thought for some time now that all configuration files, command-line options etc. should have simple an
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by jpr 16y ago
I see no reason to believe this will ever work. These kinds of things make me really wish my country hadn't joined EU.
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by jpr 16y ago
Backward compatibility may be a weakness in security, but a strength otherwise. I like it very much that I can still run many of my games that I purchased in the 90's on the Windows 7. AFAICT, Linux can't easily offer such a long binary bac
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by jpr 16y ago
I'd like to think that I have a good imagination, but I still can't imagine the look on Stallman's face if MS decided to fund the development of Hurd. I wish I could upvote you twice, once for good ideas, and once again for that one unimagi
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by jpr 16y ago
Don't let hackers to cajole you into turning Windows to an open-source unix-clone, world already has way too many of those.
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by jpr 16y ago
Oh my FSM please no! That would remove the one and only mainstreamish OS that isn't an unix-clone from the market, leaving the computing world permanently crippled. Why do people want that sort of monoculture? Also, if you seriously think u
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by jpr 16y ago
Aren't dynamic loading (for plugins etc.) and dynamic linking two different things?
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by jpr 16y ago
Is there really any place where floating point is the right solution or default? I mean, all general purpose languages generally use floating point, but for general purposes, floating point isn't what you want. Or maybe it is, but it certai
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by jpr 16y ago
> many people say they are in "the Cloud" where they define the cloud as a server on the internet. To me, cloud would mean that the service has very good reliability, which your run of the mill "server on the internet" does not necessar
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by jpr 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, only 5 lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol#Hello.2C_world
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by jpr 16y ago
What do you mean?
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by jpr 16y ago
They also break the "scroll one whole page at a time" paradigm that many are used to. EDIT: I just realized that Chrome devs have apparently already decided that it's not worth fighting the idiotic bars, so Chrome scrolls less than one pa

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