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by russellallen 15y ago
These articles always compare Hurd to Linux. I'd love to see a comparison with Minix3 or Genode/L4 instead.
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by russellallen 15y ago
We already do documents for clients in electronic form where possible. The limitation usually is outside bodies such as banks who insist on 'wet ink' signatures. It does reduce fussing, for example when signing a multiparty contract, but it
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by russellallen 15y ago
This does look cool, but I'm torn - I find something really attractive in its antithesis: beautifully designed purely mechanical watches that only do one thing and do it without electronics or batteries or Bluetooth connectivity. Self conta
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by russellallen 15y ago
The most important sentence for me was "Two of us (me and Sebas) are enrolled in the Software Technology master program at Utrecht University, where we often use the programming language Haskell." What you're familiar and comfortable with i
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by russellallen 16y ago
Sanity checks, people. Sanity checks.
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by russellallen 16y ago
7. Learn Self :)
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by russellallen 16y ago
If China had a justice system where trials were carried out in the open rather than in secret behind closed doors and a press blackout, then it would be easier for us to determine the truth...
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by russellallen 16y ago
I was giving my four suggestions to show how the author could have chosen more variety; eg functional, oo, concatenative and distributed/actor. Mercury/Oz mentioned by Mahmud below is another great idea, they don't get nearly enough love.
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by russellallen 16y ago
If he thinks that Smalltalk is a "alternate yet fully capable universe that branched off from mainstream computing long ago" then I'm not sure I want to know what he thinks about selflanguage.org ... But seriously, his four 'advanced progra
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by russellallen 16y ago
Australia is marked as 'under surveillance' (together with Russia and Turkey if I'm reading the map right). I don't know what this is meant to be. Currently Australia does not have a mandatory filter (and given the political climate is unli
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by russellallen 16y ago
I'm always suspicious of phrases such as "ripped his arguments to shreds" especially in such a young and contested field as AI and doubly when dealing with the difficult issues of sentience and Strong AI... I'm not accusing you of anything,
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by russellallen 16y ago
This may be true but if it is I think it must be specific to JavaScript. It's the opposite to my experience with Self, which is that prototypes help my code be clearer and simpler.
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by russellallen 16y ago
Some thoughts: Given a sufficiently flexible and late-bound class system (like Smalltalk's), the differences between prototypes and classes can blur. But in general I would say that it is easier to build classes on top of prototype systems
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by russellallen 16y ago
For people who like smalltalk, Redline has a lot of promise and James Ladd is definitely one of the good guys. Worth watching.
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by russellallen 16y ago
I love it when outsiders to a community (like journalists) get things like this wrong, because it makes me rethink my mental categories. We have absorbed a culturally agreed set of differences between a computer language, a platform, a fram
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by russellallen 16y ago
"In the concept of Anonymous there are no genders, faces or names, all are equal." Sounds ghastly. Edit: Lol, so I'm at 0. No, seriously, as an aspirational statement it sounds horrible. The elimination of difference instead of its celebrat
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by russellallen 16y ago
Btw, for context, here is his publications list: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/oscar/onpubs He's not an anti-OOP guy, he's a pro-OOP guy who's giving a roast as the banquet speech at ECOOP.
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by russellallen 16y ago
This is a roast, so picking it apart is to spoil the fun a bit :) But: "If we go back to the origins of Smalltalk, we encounter the mantra, “Everything is an object”. Except variables. And packages. And primitives. And numbers and classes a
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by russellallen 16y ago
For what it is worth, I have been told by the head of a paediatric mental health unit at a major hospital that there was increasing evidence in the literature of a link of some kind between marijuana use and the onset of episodes of schizop
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by russellallen 16y ago
Woosh? :) Btw, how do I see the current tally?
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by russellallen 16y ago
Well at least you know pg's voted.
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by russellallen 16y ago
My other would be Self :)
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by russellallen 16y ago
We should also be careful when discussing the case not to fall into the trap of demonising the women involved, based on little or no available evidence, just because we like Assange and approve of what Wikileaks is doing. Reasonable doubt i
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by russellallen 16y ago
Without commenting on the morality of LOIC, what makes its current use illegal are laws, passed by legislatures. Pick a jurisdiction and you'll find some law forbidding DDOS attacks. Here for example: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw
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by russellallen 16y ago
They have hit the front page of nearly every major news source with a story that cements the connection between Wikileaks and anti-social vandalism and hacking in the minds of the public. Well done, Anon. All they have done is make it harde
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by russellallen 16y ago
Fair enough. It was a bit snarky. I withdraw it.
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by russellallen 16y ago
Oh I knew everyone would say "But it was a graphic novel". Bar humbug. Anonymous all wear plastic masks from the movie at protests for a start.
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by russellallen 16y ago
V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was a Warner Bros film, a subsidiary of Times Warner which is "the world's second l
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by russellallen 16y ago
"Google is really pushing people building on web technologies to create their websites more like traditional apps." Alas poor hypertext, we hardly knew you.
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by russellallen 16y ago
The hungry, hungry caterpillar. Best book ever!

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