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by plesn 16y ago
I wonder why they couldn't use Mono. I can't really grok how they managed library usage, and how difficult it will be to maintain the java one when on platform updates etc.
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by plesn 17y ago
LLVM began purely as a research project, unlike many other compilers, so I think it's a bit harsh to blame its `appetite for "elegance"`. Free software had GCC, and in my opinion LLVM has the success it has because it is composable. Even
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by plesn 17y ago
Wow. Weren't C extensions precisely the major problem which lead Google to build Unladen Swallow instead of contributing to PyPy? Hope we'll soon have several great Python environments, even though I was secretly rooting for PyPy, being in
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by plesn 17y ago
Oh, I forgot to thank you, very interesting post.
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by plesn 17y ago
Could someone point me at a clear explanation of the difference between a micro-kernel and an hypervisor? Maybe I need to see something like the Xen presentation at Fosdem again. Edit: http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/microkernels-vs-hype
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by plesn 17y ago
> You underestimate the signal he sends by instisting on free software. It's all about the signal: that's how discussions and politics follow. I have a friend who is strictly vegetarian because of the reactions and discussions that fo
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by plesn 17y ago
IMHO, if there is a safety net allowing failures (condition to creation/experiments), I call it creative destruction. Otherwise, it's a question of threshold: will the system collapse or not. Edit: of course, those are not totally orthogona
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by plesn 17y ago
Wow, I have to do a resumé and I'm depressed about myself. I'm nearly about to write: Languages: C, Python, Haskell Will code for food in Java,C++,C#,Whatever.
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by plesn 17y ago
Yes, but until now it was more things under the hood. It was mainly a breeze to install and to maintain.
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by plesn 17y ago
On the contrary, I feel that they are just beginning to get interested in the user experience: boot process, themes, app installation, IM integration, scanning app, etc... I have high expectations for 10.10 on this side.
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by plesn 17y ago
Wondering if bug tracking could be distributed and integrated with VCS, I just ran into this (bugs-everywhere), a LWN article, a few blog posts, but no discussion on a social news site. Hence my first posting on HN... It seems an ideal solu
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Bugs Everywhere: a distributed bug-tracker(bugseverywhere.org)
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by plesn 17y ago
+1. My sister is on Ubuntu since years and she had to temporarily switch back to XP : the painful experience she described was just similar to what you usually hear the other way around.
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by plesn 17y ago
> Now things are vastly improved Depends on the metric. If you have to pay 10 times the price for spare parts because the whole module has to be changed and the garage can't even repair anymore, that's hardly an improvement. I'm persuad
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by plesn 17y ago
Hopefully this will lead to enhancements in FreeType (or some competition). Anyway users will prefer shiny lolcat fonts to their own security...
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by plesn 17y ago
I liked trying it, but localization is an issue when considering switching default search engine. With localized settings zero-clic data is still in english and links to wikipedia are to the english one for example.
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by plesn 17y ago
Another book taking this kind of horizontal approach explains different programming paradigms rather than concrete languages: "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi ( http://www.info.ucl.
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by plesn 17y ago
Do I understand well : is this something similar to what would be a good GUI for reStructuredText ? (I don't have OS X anymore to try it, unfortunately)
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by plesn 17y ago
Derelicts or not, this system is plain evil : it teaches us that stuff we buy is less and less really ours. We can't hack on stuff, we can't repair stuff, we should use stuff only the way we're supposed to, and now only when we are allowed
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by plesn 17y ago
Don't people use png's for that, at least? With flashblock it's really terrible...
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by plesn 17y ago
No way !? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky)
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by plesn 17y ago
So ok, I just peeked at the paper and it seems great, but the disadvantage of being in C is that you end up with a lot of macros (like e.g. `defclass`): what with debugging?
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by plesn 17y ago
"Actual capitalism" is as far from "capitalism" as "actual communism" is from "communism"...
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by plesn 17y ago
I think this news has it's place on HN, just as well as other news on ACTA, net-neutrality, etc.. But some comments are really inappropriate to put so much political polarity on it. Venezuela is a country relatively "rebel" on US domination
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by plesn 17y ago
I wonder how open it was, and how democratically controllable it was. I'm not surprised by such a system, I mean, every big controlling entity (Banks, Wall-Mart) has a something like this but much more modern. The difficult "political" part
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by plesn 17y ago
Articles talks about "planned economy". It should even precise "planned central economy". The deep flaw in it is generally that citizens are not included in the loop of doing the plan ! Disclaimer: capitalism is also a planned economy (no t
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by plesn 17y ago
+1. I'm wondering what will be Haskell's killer app, aside GHC ;)
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by plesn 17y ago
Because it's conceptually different from what we learn, and semantically very rich. You have many 'aha!' moments, seeing that an abstraction corresponds to a really better way to solve a problem. And because it's research oriented: maybe a
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by plesn 17y ago
"solving problems in Haskell is just plain hard" That's what I agree with: Haskell nearly requires programmers to read papers each time they want to solve a new problem [1]... For the logging, I mean of course you can't be ultimately outs
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by plesn 17y ago
The reasons against Haskell in this article are quite shallow and he would benefit from more knowledge (Why putting functions in the IO Monad to log/write stuff ??). Real reasons I have against Haskell are it's complexity: compare it to the

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