twopoint718

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by twopoint718 18y ago
Now, it isn't an OS, but ZFS really does address some of these ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS It shares some of the features of other versioned filesystems, but with other nice additions. I know I'm planning on trying Opensolaris
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This is more of a question than a comment, but isn't it the case that sometimes garbage collection will succeed where reference counting will fail? I've used a kind of reference-counted pointer in C++, but it'll fail if the reference graph
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This may be only tangentially related, but something about AV has never sat well with me. For the record, I fall into the: "don't really use AV software, read mail in Mutt, never use IE under any circumstances, etc."-category so many of my
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Sometimes the best way to get a working technology is as a spin-off from a practical implementation. I'm thinking about how building a superconducting particle accelerator led to great advances in the production of superconducting titanium-
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Emacs running under X will do basic formatting (italic, bold, larger text, etc.) all on its own. There are packages out there that will do more elaborate previews. Googling gives: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex
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by twopoint718 18y ago
What, no fine structure constant? Not even h-bar?
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I thought I remembered the 'amb' operator sounded similar. It is discussed in "Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days." From chap 14 ( http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/scheme/tutorial-dsitaram/t-... ) `amb` takes zero or more expressi
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Ditto. But I manage (somehow) to loosely categorize them: there is an (ever expanding) message with Music, Movies, Books and other media that I want to look at. Any little program or something that I write gets `tar czvf`ed into its own new
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by twopoint718 18y ago
There is a video ( http://clojure.blip.tv/ ) by the creator of Clojure which argues (quite convincingly) that it is really Java, the language, that some people may have problems with and that Java, the runtime environment, (JVM) is a great
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Reminds me of the "ticket" restaurants in Japan.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This reminds me of a little sidebar in "Fundamentals of Physics" (Halliday et al. 6th ed.) that talks about how dangerous a rapidly spinning object can be. They listed a case study from Test Devices Inc. where a solid steel disk exploded fr
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Had to plug it: A "Lispy" language to javascript: http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/