limmeau

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by limmeau 17y ago
At my previous employer, we used a Mediawiki instance for approximately everything in projects: documentation, design sketches, work packages, internal tool FAQs and Howtos, project meeting minutes. Bug tracking, however, happened in Bugzil
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by limmeau 17y ago
Obligatory xkcd reference on why this is dangerous: http://xkcd.com/419/
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by limmeau 17y ago
Trim?
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by limmeau 17y ago
$600 sounds plausible to me -- after all, the $100 laptop cost more like $200 when it was done. If a netbook with aluminium case, VIA Nano processor and 12" touchscreen was profitable to manufacture at $300, one of the Asian companies would
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by limmeau 17y ago
It compiles C programs to perl or to Lua or to Java or to Lisp. The author seems to hope that improvements in JIT technology will finally make the JIT-compiled translated programs faster than the original C program. That sounds optimistic t
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by limmeau 17y ago
There is also gitorious[1]. Haven't tried it myself. [1] http://gitorious.org/
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by limmeau 17y ago
(Answering myself,) apparently pyparsing[1] composes grammars from grammar objects in the spirit of parser combinators. [1] http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
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by limmeau 17y ago
Now that you mention composable regexps (or composable grammars), I want some, too. :)
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by limmeau 17y ago
Thanks! I'll try that sometime.
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by limmeau 17y ago
AFAIK, Lua has only one numeric data type, double-precision floating-point numbers. That kind of scares me -- I like my integers integer and not approximated. Does that, in your experience, cause problems in practice? (Yes, I know that in p
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by limmeau 17y ago
I agree that these problems can make you wish Python had decent metaprogramming. However, for most of your examples, there are Python solutions without explicit metaprogramming which IMHO are not so painful after all. Parsing: a recursive-d
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by limmeau 17y ago
Do you mean Sound of Traffic[1]? I haven't tried it yet, and neither have I tried Netsound[2], but they're both somewhere in the lower middle of my very-long-rainy-day list. [1] http://www.smokinggun.com/projects/soundoftraffic/ [2] http
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by limmeau 17y ago
So this guy is against using the axiom of choice because a countably infinite number of prisoners in a row who have agreed on an infinite set of equivalence classes just between breakfast and hat game time and remember them and each of them
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by limmeau 17y ago
There are also ergonomical limits to screen height: most sources I know of recommend that the upper edge of the screen be at eye-level or below. My 24" 16:10 wide-screen already reaches that limit (I admit the desk is a bit high).
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by limmeau 17y ago
In order to program productively in C++ without too many segfaults, you need a deep understanding of what's going on, why the wrong one of your three two-argument copy-constructors is being called, when the invisible initialization of super
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by limmeau 17y ago
I agree that low-power computing is an interesting topic and free turtles all the way down are worth having -- however, the XO had free firmware and low power consumption years ago (and a sunlight-friendly display and mesh networking etc...
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by limmeau 17y ago
I've looked it up. The picture I remember was in Leo Brodie's Starting Forth: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf1/sf1.html
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by limmeau 17y ago
Laundry control? I remember a line from a Forth tutorial which introduced what the colon does. : WASHING-MACHINE (drawn picture of a washing machine) ; So that wasn't just an illustration after all!
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by limmeau 17y ago
Uninformed? Apparently. Ridiculous? Yes. But nonetheless, these ideas are dangerous because they may sound plausible to internet-printing politicians. Also, a tax on email would mean that using an unlicensed mail server in a foreign country
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by limmeau 17y ago
I still have the impression that HN discussions are of higher relevance than on e.g. reddit. And a community "being polluted" suggests that there are "pure" members and "dirt" members -- I don't think that's a helpful angle to discuss a pos
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by limmeau 17y ago
Sounds nice. I especially welcome the variable mechanism for colours so that I don't have to write the hex value of today's favourite color (or its highlighted or shaded variant) everywhere I use it. I'm not sure yet if I'm happy with the l
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by limmeau 17y ago
Fast, cheap, long battery life -- pick zero. Or did I miss something?
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by limmeau 17y ago
The x86 instruction set has a mechanism called "call gates" for system calls. Basically, the OS puts the entry point of the system call handler into a segment descriptor with the call gate bits set. The unprivileged user program then perfor
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by limmeau 17y ago
The real question IMHO is neither "Is this software perfect" nor "Did it function correctly?", it is "is the software quality sufficient for the risks associated with failure?" What are the bad events resulting from failure? I see mainly pe
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by limmeau 17y ago
While it is true that the OLPC is using Linux, many of the features of Bitfrost http://radian.org/~krstic/bitfrost_2007.pdf are not present in mainstream Linux distributions (e.g. applications being isolated against each other (yay); thef
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by limmeau 17y ago
I don't now how much this topic is discussed outside Germany's blogosphere. A short summary on what has happened so far: Germany's federal parliament will be elected in September. Minister Ursula von der Leyen (family, youth) decided to do
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by limmeau 18y ago
Don't know. Where's the "mind" in that?
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by limmeau 18y ago
Except for the Straight Story, obviously.
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by limmeau 18y ago
I wish them luck, but a 40-core Forth processor sounds like it needs to come with a free Chuck Moore to program it.
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by limmeau 18y ago
For #2, I recommend Sphinx ( http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ ) as an alternative to DocBook. You write your documentation in reStructuredText (yet another extensible Wiki markup language) and generate HTML, PDF (via LaTeX), Windows help files, Ec

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