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by simula67 12y ago
I remember someone from Facebook saying that ( can't find the link ATM ) when HPHP was being built there was a competing project to trans-compile PHP to Java. In the end they compared the performance and found that the C++ was faster a
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by simula67 12y ago
I remember Google had this deal before and they chose to end it [1] around the time it launched Google+. Seems like they have thrown in the towel on social :) [1] http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo.
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by simula67 12y ago
rurban, I just want to point out that I was not calling for an rpython target for nqp nor was I claiming nqp is the rpython of the perl world. Not really sure what you are correcting. >No. moar is a vm backend for nqp, with a traditional
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by simula67 12y ago
I think MOAR was designed specifically to run NQP efficiently. NQP is a subset of Perl 6 which the Perl 6 compiler is written in. That compiler takes a program written in Perl 6 and converts it into NQP. That NQP program is then compiled to
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by simula67 12y ago
What tragedy ? Measles How can we do that ? Vaccination.
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by simula67 12y ago
What would stop a person like this from killing herself if she is truly depressed ? What stops her from killing herself out of curiosity ? Would she make a better or worse soldier ? I wish this woman did an AMA.
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A language like Perl 6 would probably be a good first programming language if some good libraries become available for it. Printing one line of text is one line of code. Then you can start teaching branching, loops etc. Object-orientation i
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by simula67 12y ago
Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men. Indeed, it appeared that it was not “diversity” (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered for a team’s intelligence, but simply having more women. This last effec
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by simula67 12y ago
Too bad WinFS was canceled. Seems like no GUI support for any of these tools :(
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by simula67 12y ago
> If one is not allowed to mention or entertain an idea without career repercussions, it harms the scientific process. Can this be extended to politics as well ? What about the recent Uber executive mentioning that they thought about inv
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by simula67 12y ago
When used within the context of pointers, it helps to think of '*' as the 'at address' operator and '&' as the 'address of' operator. Especially when reading code.
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by simula67 12y ago
Very interesting article, if you ignore the unnecessary jabs at Google, youngsters and the uncorroborated praise for GM. But there is an interesting point to note here : GM is not fundamentally the same as Google or other software companies
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by simula67 12y ago
Did you consider alternatives, like for example, Mozilla Public License version 2 ? It is a file based copy-left license that is compatible with GPL.
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by simula67 12y ago
> And, dare I ask, what about Perl 6? As an ardent Perl lover, I asked this question myself. Shameless self-promotion yada yada : http://simula67.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/perl-6-evaluation/
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by simula67 12y ago
> it's never been able to develop a significant source of revenue other than ads. And Microsoft hasn't been able to develop a significant source of revenue other than selling technology. Google's ad revenue comes from a v
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by simula67 12y ago
I wish they had patented truly novel ideas like pipes, hierarchical file systems and "everything is a file" and then licensed it so that anyone releasing software under an open source license can use them and not others. That woul
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by simula67 12y ago
> in general people react less strongly to emotional expressions in a foreign language As a non-native English speaker, I wonder if this affects programming. Do English-speaking people find beautiful programs written in English more beau
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by simula67 12y ago
I kind of feel bad when this project gets a bad rap online. Lets look at the pros and cons : Pros 1. Very fast Cons 1. Author looks unstable. (S)He may leave the project causing technical debt. Mitigation : Use the proxy in some standard wa
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by simula67 12y ago
What if we had online courses where the best educators in the world created interactive training material. Schools still exist and students are required to come to classes where they go through the training material. The staff simply enforc
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by simula67 12y ago
Does not work well if you also care about hidden files : [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch .hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ touch not_hidden [simula67@hades test_bash]$ find . -type f ./not_hidden ./.hidden [simula67@hades test
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by simula67 12y ago
Maybe Google can win back some karma they lost for participating in the "No Poaching" deal with Apple et al by defending this guy.
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by simula67 12y ago
No element of competition but have a look at The Command Line Murders : https://github.com/veltman/clmystery
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by simula67 12y ago
TL;DR If your job helps others, you may want to do it [1] for reasons other than money and therefore get paid less. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
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by simula67 12y ago
From Beck's talk[1] they are not reviewing the cryptography code, merely cleaning up the programming. They admit they don't yet have cryptography experts reviewing if the algorithms/implementations are doing what they are sup
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by simula67 12y ago
I was just reading through the righteous rants at http://pccare247ripoffcomplaintsreviewscams.wordpress.com . What is his angle here ? Was it some bad manager who asked his team at PCCare247 to get more clients by any means neces
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by simula67 12y ago
> better option is to use their history opt-out I found that Google Now recommends me stuff based on what I have searched before even though I have search history turned off.
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Will that make the compiler code harder to maintain ?
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It would be hard to do online courses for subjects that require a lot of physical tools for teaching, or loads of physical activity. Some examples are physics, mechanical engineering, computer hardware design, dancing etc. But it might be u
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For those who missed it, Ubuntu is also moving to systemd as default : http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
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by simula67 13y ago
Hi Xavier Kinda off-topic, but have you considered translating HTTrack comments and variable names to English ?

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