marktangotango

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by marktangotango 13y ago
That's really interesting, given your Chemistry focus, what has motivated you to undertake this course? The requirement to write it in Scheme seems a bit onerous to someone who's never used Scheme. Given that, it would probably
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by marktangotango 13y ago
>I don't think anybody is using Swing willingly -- or enjoying it. Besides the "uncanny valley" effect to native widgets, it suffered from the start from the main negative of Java's culture: it was overengineered. On
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by marktangotango 13y ago
All Oracle needs is the upcoming multi-tenant jvm (Java 9, IBM jvm already has it supposedly). Then your iaas becomes jaas (jvm as a service) with any jvm language/platform you care to mention.
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by marktangotango 13y ago
My current boss fits this mold, he has a development background, and I don't know if he can code or not, but when it comes to technical and/or architectural concerns, he 'gets' it, and he's a presenting, selling, we
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Lisp: moving the languge to meet the problem?
1 points by marktangotango 13y ago|0 comments
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by marktangotango 13y ago
Cobol and some of the Basics had a characteristics that made them very desirable for certain use cases. Namely, static memory allocation. Although you can dynamically allocate memory in Cobol, you generaly don't. All storage is stat
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by marktangotango 13y ago
Lol, I didn't recognize the issue, but that 'Creative Computing' logo is quiet distinctive. I have mixed feelings about that era. Pre internet, information was so hard to come by. I tried to start 6502 assembly programming
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They're Made Out of Meat(terrybisson.com)
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by marktangotango 13y ago
Can you talk about what you mean by technical ceiling, and high/low technical ceiling? I've heard the ideas in your last paragraph referred to as the 'rule of least cleverness', avoiding wizardry always good imo.
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by marktangotango 13y ago
FYI, it was a joke; the first sentence in the post was excessively long.
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by marktangotango 13y ago
Yes, I should have specified javascript strict mode, with a namespace and or module system :) Hmm, getting quiet the requirements here.
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Good point. More specifically, a dynamically typed, prototype based object oriented language with C style curly brace syntax.
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Language like Javascript but without closures?
4 points by marktangotango 13y ago|6 comments
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Sending Email from EC2
6 points by marktangotango 13y ago|5 comments