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901.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I'd say the license fee is limited by the costs of an alternative solution, isn't it.
902.
by stewbrew 15y ago
"Using a SourceForge page as your project’s homepage is fine in the early days. But once you get big enough, it’s just not enough. The URL is long and doesn’t seem permanent; the landing page is modular and boring, and it doesn’t really con
903.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Is this supposed to be a successor of the ruby quiz series?
904.
by stewbrew 15y ago
It took me a few days to appreciate the change but I think hiding scores and consequently taming kharma whoring is an improvement.
905.
by stewbrew 15y ago
From what I gather, scores are still used to order comments.
906.
by stewbrew 15y ago
So why haven't these technologies been a success for the past 5 years?
907.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I wouldn't call it a failure outside the telescope market. IIRC the first Mac apps were written in forth. There is a forth interpreter for every platform. Quite a few smaller apps for older computers or handheld devices were written in fort
908.
by stewbrew 15y ago
But it comes with a risk you cannot insure against. See e.g. Ulrich Beck's discussion of this technology from the 1980s/1990s. On the other hand, you can more easily deal (calculate) with the downsides of coal (uhm ... well, use no coal), h
909.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Are you able to tell/estimate what's the proportion of software patent cases that will bring profit to the people who actually did the work? And how many cases were initiated by those people because they felt at risk.
910.
by stewbrew 15y ago
From what I gather they meant to say that you can download the code, which is automatically extracted from the wiki page. ctangle for mediawiki?
911.
by stewbrew 15y ago
In a talk/interview on Go Rob Pike (on infoq maybe?) explained that with "systems programming" they don't mean OS development (at least not now). GC technology will improve so that sooner or later it won't be an issue.
912.
by stewbrew 16y ago
I personally find go an interesting language I'd like to learn but why should the apparent need for something like gofix make you like the language.
913.
by stewbrew 16y ago
This isn't about trusting delicious or not. Simply backup your damn data.
914.
by stewbrew 16y ago
The situation seems slightly different from this one. Computer users should backup data they consider valuable. delicious let's you easily export (and re-import) all bookmarks. If somebody never cared to export bookmarks data for years, the
915.
by stewbrew 16y ago
I'd say a greater number of robots on these pictures were made to kill or to prepare or facilitate killing people.
916.
by stewbrew 16y ago
Quite frankly, I personally fail to see the sense of this. Interesting read though.
917.
by stewbrew 16y ago
IIRC good performance of ssd requires slightly modified formatting parameters. I'm not sure if this is still true, though. Anyway, with different block sizes etc. I'm not sure if cloning works, does it? On windows, unfortunately information
918.
by stewbrew 16y ago
So we have people who upgraded their hard disk to a ssd and say it resulted in a "serious performance increase" and we have people who still use traditional hard disks (why on earth would somebody want to do something like that?) who say it
919.
Social Media for Authors: Forever in Search of Buzz(pw.org)
1 points by stewbrew 16y ago|0 comments
920.
by stewbrew 16y ago
Old news. And there are similar plugins: histwin: https://github.com/chrisbra/histwin.vim undobranche_viewer.vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2141
921.
by stewbrew 16y ago
I wasn't aiming at having a comment be tagged as funny or whatever. It was just supposed to tell people that they shouldn't click on on the downvote button because they disagree with the conclusion of a perfectly well argumented comment --
922.
by stewbrew 16y ago
Instead of having an arrow for downvoting comments (which has a different intended meaning on hn than on most other social newssites) couldn't we have a button next to "flag" that has a name on it, e.g. "content-free/snarky/witty but pointl
923.
by stewbrew 16y ago
In the case of a social news site like hn, the external factors have changed though. People now use such web sites for marketing purposes. So, they don't post a site to hn because they think hn readers could profit from it but primarily bec
924.
by stewbrew 16y ago
The parent poster was talking about immutability, "the early days" and copying data. I think my point was that you don't have to copy data all the time but this requires a clever interpreter/compiler that you could not have run "in the earl
925.
by stewbrew 16y ago
The Haskell 98 standard prelude is 39 kb big. Computers with less RAM than that were in use in the early 1980s. Since you're obviously an engineer by training, you may now ask why somebody would try to load an Haskell prelude in the early 1
926.
by stewbrew 16y ago
Ah those were the days when computers hardly had enough memory to even keep the Haskell standard prelude in memory. Immutability doesn't necessarily require copying data all the time though if you copied data only when modified and used the
927.
by stewbrew 16y ago
The author used the word "weird" to refer to a language that is not commonly considered mainstream. So did I paraphrasing the title.
928.
by stewbrew 16y ago
the examples for weird languages he puts forward are slightly disappointing - with the exception of haskell maybe. but then, even haskell is the mainstream version of ideas that where first put into practice someplace else.
929.
by stewbrew 16y ago
You're mixing language definitions and implementations. You're comparing software that was created by big companies with software created by small teams or single developers. I think good commenters can do better. BTW you're implying govern
930.
by stewbrew 16y ago
"Prolog is a pure functional language ... so there are no variables to update?—?only method calls." It's been a while (some decades) since I wrote my last prolog program but this seems to be rather wrong to me. First of all, there is also t

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