lukego

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   by lukego 15y ago

   I love OLPC. It's such a noble project and there is some really excellent engineering in there to boot. Go OLPC-gang :)
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   by lukego 15y ago

   I really enjoyed one of this paper's citations, "Why do computers stop and what can be done about it" written by Jim Gray in 1985. A really nice and early look at how to build reliable systems from unreliable but independent parts. http://
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   by lukego 15y ago

   Don't worry, our Lisp startup (www.teclo.net) is fixing TCP over mobile networks, it will all be fine soon enough. :-)
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   by lukego 16y ago

   Good idea! We're a Lisp startup based in Zurich and I'm sure a few of us will turn up. www.teclo.net
5. 425.▲
   by lukego 17y ago

   The Erlang community has historically spawned a lot of interesting startups in Stockholm (Bluetail, Synapse, Kreditor, tail-f, Mobile Arts, ...). There are pub nights.
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   by lukego 17y ago

   JVM doesn't have a way to call another method without pushing the caller onto the stack. x86's jump instruction does that, and on x86 you can directly change the stack pointer too.
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   by lukego 17y ago

   Alan Kay frequently recommends that book too.