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by wbhart 16y ago
Ah, the binaries are unavailable at present. He's working on a new version and says it'll be up in a week or so.
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by wbhart 16y ago
I've been using an LALR(1) parser generator by Paul Mann http://highperware.com/ which gets around this context sensitivity problem. I've had to hack it a bit to handle scopes, but this wasn't a major problem. It generates an amazing lexe
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by wbhart 16y ago
OK, here is my experience with the main page. I'm not a marketing expert, but maybe my comments might still be useful. * Oh, nice professional looking website * First look to left middle "Tweeting machine" * Read the catch line about it bei
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by wbhart 16y ago
Maybe the OP considered it news because it is tangentially related to this patent issue to do with automatically expiring data in hash tables.
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by wbhart 16y ago
It's not as good as R7RS.
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by wbhart 16y ago
That's not useful though when the regular expression libraries written to be portable across different schemes all suffer because almost none of the actual implementations optimise string handling. It's like tail recursion elimination. It's
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by wbhart 16y ago
As far as I can see, there is still no way to do anything with a part of a string without making a copy of it first. This is a major performance problem in scheme string handling as scheme implementations usually don't (and maybe can't) che
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by wbhart 16y ago
Amazing. It would be really cool to be able to change the number of rows and columns and also the instruments and tones/chords for each row/column. It's fun opening more than one browser tab and having more than one of these going at once.
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by wbhart 16y ago
Where did this come from? Who paid for it. It's really naive. It's the sort of thing I could imagine the government producing to try and convince kids who glorify the hacker culture to sign up for some cyber defensive. No surprise perhaps t
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by wbhart 16y ago
I got it to work. You have to build against the latest svn of clang and llvm. I personally found parallel make didn't work for me and that I had to apply the two very small patches to the makefiles manually, though the latter may be fixed b
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by wbhart 16y ago
Thanks for pointing out cling. Unfortunately they don't say which version of Clang/LLVM they build against. Their patches only seem to apply cleanly to version 2.8. But unfortunately it doesn't build for me. I also tried building it against
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by wbhart 16y ago
That's right. In fact, if Python were used to incrementally compile to assembly, it actually mightn't be too bad. There'd be a relatively short delay every time you pressed the enter key as the new bit got compiled. The problem with the app
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by wbhart 16y ago
Unfortunately it is as slow as a dog. I'm not sure I understand what the pressing need for a C interpreter that is slow is. If so, there are two of them out there, including cint. The fact is, there is absolutely no technological reason why
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by wbhart 16y ago
That would be difficult. You need the ability to be able to recover from errors. Moreover, you need to be able to redefine things. For example, suppose you defined a type or a function and changed your mind and later decided to redefine the
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by wbhart 16y ago
This is not serious, surely. It's a simple Python wrapper for gcc. And by simple, I mean, really simple. Meaning the GPL is the biggest file in the source tree. And it doesn't work: igcc 0.1 Released under GNU GPL version 2 or later, with N
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by wbhart 16y ago
That's really nice. But why is it so hard to write a "console" in Javascript. You know, like a python interpreter. Enter python, press enter, next line prints the result. Yeah, I know it's hard. I tried it myself, and it's a pain in the nec
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by wbhart 16y ago
I would love to buy a computer that is a modern upgrade of the Commodore 64, as if the machine had continued to evolve. In other words, the CPU would be a say 32 bit evolution of the original CPU with obvious changes to the instruction set
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by wbhart 16y ago
But I want to see it turn!
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by wbhart 16y ago
Oh the poor kid. No one measured Einstein's IQ. He looks to be up to about grade 12 maths -- still an accomplishment for someone so young. He claims to "debunk" the Big Bang theory, and now to be developing a new "relativity". I wish the me
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by wbhart 16y ago
This article looks a lot like a scheme tutorial to me. That is not to say that it isn't interesting and written well. It's just not what's advertised. Anyhow, for some things Scheme can produce efficient applications. However, other things
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by wbhart 16y ago
That's surprising. It even has a wikipedia page. Given the fact that no new languages will ever succeed ever again due to the deletionism in wikipedia I've started making a list of languages everyone should have heard of: dao, nimrod, pure,
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by wbhart 16y ago
Wow, HN must have a pretty large readership. Note that before this got posted on HN today my SO score from the solution was pretty static, for weeks. All of a sudden it's sprung up 300 points. If I learned one thing from the experience it i
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by wbhart 16y ago
I could be wrong, but based on news this morning it was my understanding that it in fact had a concrete "tertiary" containment including a dry and wet-well. There were apparently some minor inaccuracies in what he wrote, which were pointed
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by wbhart 16y ago
Whilst I can't claim to know the answer to your question, my guess/understanding is that it goes around the circuit and condenses in the heat exchange. It is then recycled. Some steam is lost when they vent hydrogen, presumably.
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by wbhart 16y ago
I agree that the information was highly confusing. I also thought I heard this, but what I wrote is I believe correct nonetheless. :-( The english translation is very poor. Yesterday they used the phrase: "there is a small chance of a massi
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by wbhart 16y ago
As near as I can make out the details: From the Japanese Prime Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary. My source is NHK World (Japan News): People up to 30km from Dai-ichi (number-1) plant are being asked to remain indoors. ALL people within
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by wbhart 16y ago
I thought BoA bought up all these domain names. How does anonymous have it? How can we verify this is legit? The primary domain is registered to James somebody, email address Nope@gmail.com, which doesn't exactly look like valid info.
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by wbhart 16y ago
This looks like a very interesting language. I like the idea of exploring the statically typed Scheme space. I especially like the support for algebraic datatypes and the array notation. But a couple of things puzzle the hell out of me. Why
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by wbhart 16y ago
I'm amazed that some hours later google chrome still reports that there is malware on the site. According to the article the ad with the offending malware was removed. So what gives, basically?
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More technology glitches on the LSE (malware)(cityam.com)
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