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by nimrody 16y ago
No. It's a result of Ian Taylor being part of the Go team and the gcc team. To the best of my knowledge, the gccgo frontend is not written as a gcc plugin.
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by nimrody 16y ago
While it looks nice, I'm not so sure about learning a language by using Google Translate. The results produced are not always examples of good writing.
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by nimrody 16y ago
It's very similar to the StackOverflow type of sites. Except, perhaps, that no discussion is allowed, and questions aren't tagged/labeled. The one problem I see with these sort of sites is that if they aren't focused on a subject (or someho
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by nimrody 16y ago
Unfortunately, the article fails to list the origin of these travelers. I suspect most are from the developing countries in the area. [One exception may be the "baby production industry". India provides inexpensive surrogacy services. Som
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by nimrody 16y ago
Homebrew on OS X uses the same approach to install packages. It works as long as the installed software doesn't have to modify system files (/etc).
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by nimrody 16y ago
This shouldn't have reached the frontpage. Nothing interesting or new here - Python's memory allocation scheme and garbage collector aren't state of the art.
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by nimrody 16y ago
I must be missing something basic here. Where is the search box? Otherwise -- very nice! (Although somewhat close to StackOverflow in typical use)
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by nimrody 16y ago
There is also mathjax ( http://www.mathjax.org/ ) which can render MathML if your browser supports it (the actual markup you use is the de-facto standard LaTeX notation). Now I only need something that will let me paste Matlab figures into
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by nimrody 16y ago
Regarding NTP vs. RIM: seems like the NTP patent was, in fact, invalid as will be determined by an ongoing patent office reexamination: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/rim-v-ntp-yet-ag...
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by nimrody 16y ago
Careful with the patents... Cellular technology is an IP minefield. However, as long as you stay small and do it for educational value and fun -- you're OK. Also -- there's a big difference between making a call and sustaining the call acro
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by nimrody 16y ago
Does the Kindle support complex science books well? I bought one statistics book and the equations and graphs do not scale with the text. For fiction I still prefer small paperback books. Easy to swap with friends and simple to use.
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by nimrody 16y ago
Most research papers typeset using LaTeX use ugly fonts as well -- the computer modern fonts. In fact, when it comes to presenting equations, even major publications use these ugly CM fonts. They usually use Times Roman for the text itself.
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by nimrody 16y ago
Infineon does not produce application processors for the mobile market -- except perhaps based on ARM technology. They do make baseband and RF chips that are used in cell phones. Intel definitely wants to get into the mobile / cellular bu
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by nimrody 16y ago
It all depends on the operator. A UMTS (3G) network can accept users using a GSM SIM if the operator allows it. Authentication is performed by the network HLR (Home location register) which is independent of the radio technology used. The p
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by nimrody 16y ago
Similar complaints here: http://gitguru.com/2009/03/18/git-enterprise-requirements/ While I personally use and like git, it's just too low level for general use. Too easy to mess up the repository. Git is a very good basis for version con
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by nimrody 16y ago
I believe one of the more important differences between a GSM SIM and 3G USIM is that the network is required to prove its identity to the user. You can use a standard GSM 2G SIM with a 3G WCDMA network and in that case only the network r
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by nimrody 16y ago
Except it does not handle graphics well. While researching a subject, I take notes intertwined with graphs and diagrams. Can emacs handle that type of data?
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by nimrody 16y ago
It's better if you have cellular reception (and sometimes you need your carrier to enable that feature for you). Unfortunately, if you are using non-assisted GPS on these newer phones, you get poor performance. They were designed for AGPS
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by nimrody 16y ago
Is it just me or do other people find the documentation on hackageDB lacking and too often very beginner-unfriendly? Something similar to Perl's http://perldoc.perl.org/ (really excellent!) would do a lot to help beginning Haskellers!
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by nimrody 16y ago
Is there any prepackaged LDC binary for OS X? It's annoying having to download DMD (Digital Mars compiler) just to compile LDC.
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by nimrody 16y ago
Thanks! I really like the Facebook app/games idea, since current video games set the bar way too high for any individual working alone. Making "Pong"-type of games will probably not impress anyone these days :)
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by nimrody 16y ago
Can you report on what works and what does not? Specifically, I'm interested to know whether Javascript in the browser is good enough, or too difficult to use in practice.
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by nimrody 16y ago
This sort of system never seems to work in practice. Very quickly you get to a point where every app asks for so many permissions it does not need. You end up just "clicking through" the installation without much thought. Either developers
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by nimrody 16y ago
I believe it is common for ARM licensees to add accelerators for multimedia, etc. However, extending the processor itself goes against the entire RISC philosophy. Making the core more complicated makes speeding it more difficult and will no
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by nimrody 16y ago
As far as scientific/numeric computing goes, you would probably find that NumPy/SciPy perform better (assuming you can vectorize your algorithm).
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by nimrody 16y ago
Adobe makes money from selling authoring tools not from the Flash plugin itself. However, controlling the delivery platform (Flash) probably gives them an edge in the tools market too (similar to what Microsoft does. Silverlight is free. De
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by nimrody 16y ago
Regarding LLVM -- See the comment about PNaCl (Portable Native Code Client). This is portable code based on LLVM intermediate representation.
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by nimrody 16y ago
Well, you could always ship software in platform neutral code and make the final transition to native code when they are installed (either with something like gcj or use some intermediate representation like LLVM does).
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by nimrody 16y ago
Most cell phone manufacturers see Google's frequent releases as an annoyance they would rather not deal with. New releases mean re-testing the product. It's expensive, time consuming, and the new software may reveal new hardware/firmware bu
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by nimrody 16y ago
I was kind of hoping for something along the lines of LyX. Where you always see and edit a rough approximation of the document (jsMath might be useful for math display).

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