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by sross 14y ago
There may not have appeared to have been any personal accountability, but make no mistake if anything had gone wrong with the On-Board Software the EXACT same accountability process would have been initiated to ensure that the same human er
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by sross 15y ago
It's also worth noting that GUIDs in this case have nothing to do with persistence but rather with associating urls with behaviour in much the same way as the fnids you'll see on various urls (like flag) on hacker news.
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by sross 15y ago
Agreed, the costs of living in London (especially Zones 1 and 2) puts London in the top 20 of most expensive cities to live in the world. However, If you're going to pay a youngster £30k they will not (and should not) be expecting to live i
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by sross 16y ago
Not answering for everyone, of course, but I find the mac model breaks down when I only want to pull a single window of an app to the foreground. Envisage, if you will, this scenario. I have multiple terminal windows open in the background
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by sross 18y ago
No offense but I don't think you get the concept of batteries included. Python has batteries included, Clojure has batteries available. Even the clojure contrib jar is not included by default and has to be downloaded separately and then clo
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by sross 18y ago
Why not ask Alan Kay? 'OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.' He might know....
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by sross 18y ago
Those numbers do look a little funny, 22 seconds seems way to high for Ruby 1.8, on my macbook 2.6Ghz it's around 3.2 secs. Out of curiosity, what were you doing that made your SBCL numbers so high? I've got 1.8.6 (running natively on OSX)
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by sross 19y ago
I picked up the language after running sawfish as a window manager. This took me to emacs and from there to Common Lisp. I can highly reommend 'A Gentle Introduction To Symbolic Computation' if you are new to programming and 'Practical Comm