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by knz42 11y ago
Patents count I believe ;)
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by knz42 11y ago
This explanation subtly forgets to explain which agent is responsible for executing the contract-programs. Obviously you don't want the contract to be processed (and the money spent) two or more times at its deadline. Who is doing the
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by knz42 11y ago
Have the workers own the robots, not the elite of company executives. Then redistribute the profits made by the robots to their new owners. The idea of having the workers own the means of production is hardly new, it's just not very po
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by knz42 11y ago
The functional runtime (i.e. not compiler) is built upon an imperative foundation. This is necessarily so as long as hardware computer are built upon state-modifying processors and random access, in-place updatable memories.
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by knz42 12y ago
> i'm saying we need to stop immoral behaviour when it is happening. we can't define morals in law, and the law is the only thing corporations understand. we can't change laws and retroactively apply them. Two things: a) y
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by knz42 12y ago
The other “alternative” to Docker is SmartOS, which combines KVM with Solaris zones and ZFS.
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The Dark Resistance(science.raphael.poss.name)
6 points by knz42 12y ago|0 comments
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by knz42 12y ago
Also relevant, an article from earlier this year: http://www.bibbase.org/network/publication/poss-altmeyer-tho...
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by knz42 12y ago
About your last point: if you have a space elevator you can have a mass going down to balance for the mass going up, which reduces the energy needed merely to working against the friction on the cable and the connection point at the top. Th
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Open Problems in Computer Science(science.raphael.poss.name)
1 points by knz42 12y ago|0 comments
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by knz42 12y ago
After doing some research on "I also got attacked by PHK" I did some research and found this: - you sent 2 e-mails to the Varnish-misc mailing list in Feb 2011 about the ESI-related bug you found ( https://www.varnish-ca
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by knz42 12y ago
The article is well-written and makes a good point that scripting languages open new avenues for OS extension. However the question remains whether Lua is the right candidate for the job, being not-so-open yet. Obviously the hacker cultures
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Minix 3.3.0(minix3.org)
600 points by knz42 12y ago|172 comments
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by knz42 12y ago
It's because they are ostentatiously making a lot of money while blatantly flaunting the law. This attracts attention, as much as Al Capone once did.
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by knz42 12y ago
Except that to make a few diagram at the end required a lot of Wolfram code, although the model was very simplistic. To me (working with complex models for work) I fear that complexity with Wolfram would shoot up to unmanageable levels once
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by knz42 12y ago
Technically SMTP can be decentralized in the way you describe. Anyone can run a MTA. In principle a MTA should try routing messages through alternate routes to the destination if the first route does not work; also messages are stored on th
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by knz42 12y ago
"“If you have everything but land – if you have a population that is displaced – whether that allows you to be a state is a novel question,”" Jews would have disagreed that this is a novel question -- for them the question has bee
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by knz42 12y ago
Emacs still runs on more platforms than VS and Eclipse, using fewer system resources, and is applicable to a larger diversity of programming / work tasks. There are not so many tools that are both that ubiquitous and long-lived.
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by knz42 12y ago
Hey James, I know that most .NET/Windows programming has ALL-CAPS names but you should still write "OCaml" with small letters a-m-l.
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by knz42 12y ago
Thanks for the link, I have added it in the references of my article.
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by knz42 12y ago
I did not know that for was actually expanded early in the compiler and that one could print out the expansion with --pretty expanded. Color me enlightened. I have incorporated this, thanks!
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by knz42 12y ago
You sir are a very patient and enlightened commenter. I am grateful for your detailed comments! I'll answer in detail in the reddit thread.
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by knz42 12y ago
Thanks for the suggestion about side effects. I added a small sentence to that effect.
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by knz42 12y ago
Thanks for those comments, I have incorporated them in the document.
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by knz42 12y ago
The "stuff about boxing" has been discussed on the reddit thread, and I will have it fixed by tomorrow. Thanks for highlighting. As to "Gc not being clever", the code is clear that it is intended to be clever in the long
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Rust for Haskellers/OCamlers(staff.science.uva.nl)
2 points by knz42 12y ago|0 comments
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How good are you at programming?(staff.science.uva.nl)
16 points by knz42 12y ago|1 comments
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by knz42 12y ago
a) side effects are "masked" in Haskell in that a function that is generic over any type of monad may or may not incur side effects at run-time, depending on which actual monad it is used with. b) see above - because monads as a
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by knz42 12y ago
e^(i * pi) + 1 = 0
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by knz42 12y ago
In all fairness, the paper on which $100 bills are printed is quite worthless as well. I think ever since people have stopped using gold and silver bullion (after arrowheads and knives) as currency items, there has been this consensus that

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