neutronicus

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1621.
by neutronicus 16y ago
I often find myself wishing for a combination of the two languages. An S-Expression based Haskell-alike instead of an S-Expression based Python-alike (yes, yes I know - Lisp came first - whatever ). Bonus points if I can drop into an S-E
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by neutronicus 16y ago
China may not be the best example. They pirate almost as an institutional policy.
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by neutronicus 16y ago
My G1 no longer receives incoming calls. They just go straight to voicemail. And the text message ring tone changed without me doing anything . The maps application opens and dies to the main screen. Something tells me this crap doesn'
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by neutronicus 16y ago
You miss the point. The LGPL was created to allow people to do what Chris wants to do. The GPL was created to prevent people from doing the same. If Chris is actually right, the GPL and LGPL are equivalent. In that case, damn! I should
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by neutronicus 16y ago
Hmmmph. Is PHP so different from C/C++/Fortran that it essentially transforms the GPL into the LGPL? If one compiles against the GNU scientific library, or writes a GUI frontend for GNU octave, the application is tainted. The FSF has als
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by neutronicus 16y ago
I am surprised at rare occurrences, and will continue to be so. The author is treated the way technical men have learned, through social pressure, to treat average women. The intersection of the sets of women who are technically competent,
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by neutronicus 16y ago
I have to wonder if people who write articles like this have ever actually worked with a Chinese company. I know my company (nuclear reactor software) had a disastrous experience in partnering with Chinese programmers, and a friend of mi
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by neutronicus 16y ago
A damn good time. That's what I thought when I saw that. Maybe I'm not "most people."
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by neutronicus 16y ago
"Trying to compete with the existing school system is idiotic because it is paid for by taxpayers." The catholic church's offerings manage just fine, as do Montessori schools. Just two examples off the top of my head.
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by neutronicus 16y ago
You're assuming that every penis on chat roulette is actually the user's. I know there's a program that lets you use an arbitrary loop of video instead of a webcam feed. I suspect there are a lot of trolling 4channers with videos of someo
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by neutronicus 16y ago
Yeah, I remember telling my increasingly wall-eyed girlfriend about all the data facebook collects and what they do with it and why this means we and everyone we know should switch to the first viable alternative. Her response: "So what?
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by neutronicus 16y ago
Completely with you on point 3. I know a lot of people who do one thing on Facebook: spy on people. Facebook singlehandedly turned "stalk" into a word for a socially acceptable activity. Every new feature that got added after "look at pe
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by neutronicus 16y ago
I don't much like it either. Came from C++, learned Perl, got a job writing Fortran, learned Lisp. When hating on Perl came into vogue on the internet, I said to myself, okay, I will learn Python as a Perl replacement. It is a decent Perl
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by neutronicus 16y ago
"switch statements are by far less maintainable than the alternative polymorphism-based implementation" You know, everyone says this, and I've never quite gotten it. Why is writing another class and implementing another virtual function so
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by neutronicus 16y ago
As someone who recently began to write Fortran for a living, no. The minute you get away from FORmula TRANslation and move into simulation logic the weaknesses of the language become hugely apparent. The complacent "What do you know! For
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by neutronicus 17y ago
Identifying and realizing "the easy way to quality" is impressive. Especially when no one else seems able to duplicate it. That's the holy grail of your industrial & operations type. It's like you're deriding an app for being written i