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by rincewind 18y ago
haskell is missing: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shooting_your_self_in_the...
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by rincewind 18y ago
This reminds me of the distinction between "systems" and "theory" in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436058
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by rincewind 18y ago
Yes. http://tinyurl.com/ct3xyb http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/
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by rincewind 18y ago
quicksilver
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by rincewind 18y ago
The "Protocol for Synchronous Conferencing" is an IM protocol that was developed for efficient multicast and pubsub and extensibiltiy. It also has a much simpler(RFC822-like) to parse syntax. http://about.psyc.eu/PSYC But almost nobody us
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by rincewind 18y ago
Maybe matt should look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_distribution .
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by rincewind 18y ago
why is prostitution considered anti-feminist? aren't you making a sex-ist generalisation there? Is male prostitution also anti-feminist?
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by rincewind 18y ago
Smalltalk
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by rincewind 18y ago
There are operating systems in other, higher-level languages: Singularity, JNODE, Genera, SqueakNOS, Movitz, but: C is not garbage collected. If you write an OS in a dynamic language you need either a GC in a low-level language or one that
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by rincewind 18y ago
only if he stood on very even ground and even then it's difficult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid
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by rincewind 18y ago
just look at this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283639 Python lacks some features from Ruby, which does in turn not have some features which Python has. Java lacks both. Its featureset is designed for OOP and does not fa
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by rincewind 18y ago
The "self" argument is great. It is the reason why methods in Python are normal functions and not special "methods". It also makes this pointless but interesting piece of code possible: class foo(object): def subclassme(self):
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by rincewind 18y ago
Doesn't Ruby have call/cc? (def which-answer-is-correct answers (let like-ruby-block (fn (answer index return) (when (is string.answer "42") (return:+ index 1))) (ccc [do1 "none of the above" (on a an
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by rincewind 18y ago
The german site my-hammer.de does reverse auctions for craftspeople.
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by rincewind 18y ago
I used macports and porticus and installed vim-app.
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by rincewind 18y ago
You ask whats changed about "desktop Linux". How is the new graphics system an advantage for users of "desktop Windows"? The problem with this discussion is the choice Linux users have. You can always say Linux has a poor user experience by
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by rincewind 18y ago
Because it's vi, not vim.
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by rincewind 18y ago
I think Stallman was referring to this: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx0...
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by rincewind 18y ago
This was predicted/proposed by Neal Stephenson in "Global Neighborhood Watch" ten years ago http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/global.html
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EaRing: A Meta-Literal Machine (high-level dynamic assembler) by Zed Shaw(scribd.com)
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by rincewind 18y ago
This is a bit silly. By your logic, could any spoken language be like perl? Japanese would be INTERCAL, because of you have to express a certain amount of politeness toward the comipler.
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by rincewind 18y ago
Did you implement that site in Rails or in Django?
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by rincewind 19y ago
I sometimes use FMC Block Diagrams and Petri Nets in order to communicate my ideas. FMC is even more high-level than UML, but designed to be easier to grok for non-hackers. http://www.fmc-modeling.org/quick-intro
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by rincewind 19y ago
for Arc: http://arclanguage.org/forum
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by rincewind 19y ago
Is this useful for hacking or for writing mail? I type slowly, but this gives me time to think about what I type. Can you produce code at touch typing speed?
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by rincewind 19y ago
Why do you think the french refuse to reform their spelling? Why did you pick the french? Is there something french about hackers on news.yc?
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by rincewind 19y ago
plan 9 from bell labs, maybe http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
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by rincewind 19y ago
there is, its called "its all text". It works for any text editor, actually.
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by rincewind 19y ago
With Java you can use BeanShell http://www.beanshell.org/intro.html for the configuration files, so you don't need to compile at all.