muuh-gnu

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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
How is he supposed to know in advance that they will not try to kill him if that legal option is on the table and they are known to be willing to make examples out of previous whistleblowers like Bradley Manning? And even if he is not threa
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
It was R6's goal also. But it didnt accomplish the stated goal but just introduced more incompatibility into the overall Scheme ecosystem. But instead letting all implementations at least get up to R6, they now have R7 on the horizon.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
It is the Scmeme way: You'll quickly see half a dozen of different and incompatible implementations, but not a single newsworthy project on top of them. And soon after that, they will get bored and start yet another cycle of speciation
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> We call this a "democracy" The German Democratic Republic called itself a democracy. Its president Walter Ulbricht at one occasion even said "It must look like democracy, but we must keep control in our hands". We a
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Considering the massive immigration of Muslims and their continuing radicalization instead of assimilation, the whole of western Europe including Germany is going to turn into an "enemy" 20-30 years down the road. Europe is an US
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> the position you're arguing for is literally the opposite of innovation. So what? I dont see any innovation here. It is haute couture like change for changes sake masqueraded as innovation. Computers have become too important too
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> But pushing citizens to use Linux is NOT government business Why not? The goverment standardizes everything else, from screws to seat belts to yogurts, why not stop the crazy update-planned-obsolescence cycle pushed by commercial entit
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Tablets, like mobiles generally sufferer from planned obsolescence. They are not meant to be used and receive updates for years and years, like people used XP. I want my grandma to not have to relearn to yet another UI every two years. Cano
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Well, I know a number of economically liberal Pirates and Pirate voters who gave up simply because of the basic income and other leftist policies. While this clearly is just anecdotal, it might explain the bigger pattern why the Party had m
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
It was a widely debated topic inside the Pirate Party during their heyday 1-2 years ago. They declared basic income as one of their core goals, which rendered them unelectable for many people and accelerated their downfall.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
If he open sources it, and the company goes bankrupt without that income source, it will bitrot and cease to be important for humanity. The system has to self sustain somehow. If you want a similar system that is completely free and GPL, lo
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
It is not just like Land of Lisp, it seems to be just Land of Lisp ported to Racket by a group of students supervised by Conrad Barski and Matthias Felleisen. Barski and Felleisen arent even credited as the primary authors of the book.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
You dont do SICP to "learn Lisp", you do SICP to learn fundamental programming principles. SICP just happens to use Scheme because one of the authors of SICP was also one of the authors of Scheme. The difference between Scheme and Lisp is b
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Lisp became a "language internally used by Google" when Google purchased ITA with a Lisp code-base so large and Lisp-only staff so large, that it is unlikely that it will ever be rewritten or that the staff will be retrained to use Java.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> and I'm left to wonder why they wouldn't leave it as a choice. Because choice in UI configuration leads to UI diversity and UI diversity leads to the dilution of the UI brand. They want all machines to look the same.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
When are you going to give up the capitalized acronym LISP? It has the same archaic vibe and makes you want to code in it as much as in FORTRAN. Just call it Lisp.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> Why 140 characters? Historical. Twitter started out as a web-sms gateway. > I still don't get the value of twitter The value is in social capital. Important people post there exclusively. > How is [1] better then [2]?! It isnt
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> Or is there something else that worries you about FTP? You know what his objection likely is. Computing is a fashion industry now, so if you want to sound modern, you have to use something "new" solely because it is new, and stop usin
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Because 1001 different Schemes exist and the code between them is not portable because the Scheme standard is so tiny. Scheme code is so hopelessly unportable,that you can not even talk about "writing Scheme". You are either writing Gauche,
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
The ecosystem didnt come into existence by magic. The early adopters did have a choice into which language to invest their time. Obviously the R syntax alone was enough of an incentive to starts building useful libraries in it, instead of l
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
Not only bias, but obviously pure ignorance too, at least with respect to Lisp. In his table, Lisp seems to be unsuitable both for meta programming and multiple dispatch, which always have been touted as Lisp's major features.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> I find multiple dispatch to be a great match for writing mathematical algorithms, especially because of the ad-hoc specialization that it allows based on all parameter types. OO approaches always seemed weird This _is_ an OO approach,
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
Lwayers are not the problem. The law makers and the law making and decision making process is the problem.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> LibreOffice doesn't even come close. Your post was very, very light on details.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> Here is a video of KDE's KDE commited suicide with 4.0. After that, whatever they produced was basically irrelevant, because nobody could take them seriously any more. Nobody is going to bet anything on KDE because of the fear that th
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> scientists want to spend their time doing science, not improving free software. Wasnt the whole point of science to build their own chain of verifiable tools to rely on, instead of having to trust secret, unverified commercial black b
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
This is a rather superficial reason to start such a project. Mathematica is non popular because of its syntax, it is popular because of its extensive library, graphics capabilities and documentation. If you want to make free software packag
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
Maxima [1] is both a predecessor and alternative to both Mathematica and Maple. It is an descendant of DOE Macsyma, which ran only on expensive Lisp machines, and porting it to PCs was slow enough to give Mathematica and Maple a headstart.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> how these studies control for confounding factors like that The answer is: they simply do not at all. [1] http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf [2] http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV-SA.html

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