whatajoke

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by whatajoke 15y ago
That is because it is very similar to an actual short story written by Asimov. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_is_This_Thing_Called_Love... I can't find that story online, but it has a similar ending vis-a-vis the alien's d
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by whatajoke 15y ago
Scheme community frowns upon mutating code. R6RS even forced that by default, though the rest of the specification was a mess. So, scheme style these days is all about pure functions, tail calls and continuations. To think about it, that re
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by whatajoke 15y ago
My definition of an FFI was simply about fully supporting native threads. Simplifying FFI definitions has not been a big deal for me. It is either a few hours of work, or if more than that, then I simply use Swig. As for finalizing arbitrar
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by whatajoke 15y ago
Not criicizing lua, but worth comparing to guile. > Integration with C (and C++ for that matter) Guile does it better. You can use shared memory threads in guile without any penalty. Atmost you have to allow for the garbage collector to
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by whatajoke 15y ago
If only Nokia hadn't buried N900 and N9, more people would have experienced what a true mini laptop feels like.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
> I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here. Where did Gosling say that? I remember reading that AWT was a botched job because they had very little time to ship
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by whatajoke 16y ago
Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban... Microsoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using .NET and Windows in critical financial applications. With
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by whatajoke 16y ago
The excellent research done under Jikes project in IBM cannot be forgotten. It to contributed to IBM's patent portofolio. Bad to reply to own comment, but can't edit it anymore.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
> What's wrong is that Oracle won't (ever) allow Harmony to be called Java Compatible, even though it is. The same can be said of a fork. It will not be allowed to run the Java test suite (I forget the name) and certify itself Java. Edi
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by whatajoke 16y ago
What is wrong with http://harmony.apache.org/ ? It is a from scratch implementation of the JVM. And is backed by IBM AFAIK.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
Much of high performance modern VMs (not just JVM) are built on Self project and StrongTalk acquisiotion by Sun. I think Oracle would have quite a few key patents due to this. Though the Visual works contribution to VM technology cannot be
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by whatajoke 16y ago
It also has multiple backends. I think a debian dev had coded a llvm backend for it. And a cambridge student coded an ARM backend. Edit : grammar. Also forgot to mention that the ARM backend run on n900, my precious.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
Indian here. There are a few leaders in India who can't speak one coherent sentence in english, even though they have a masters degree in english,
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by whatajoke 16y ago
I had the same impression. Nothing can educate like a good teacher who coaches you directly. Looks like many americans (or britons) are not getting this individual attention in their schools and colleges. Some professors are able to teach y
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CANCERING: Listening In On The Body's Proteomic Conversation(edge.org)
1 points by whatajoke 16y ago|0 comments
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by whatajoke 16y ago
I have never used gentoo. Does gentoo patch packages as much as Debian? Or is their build process sophisticated to allow parallel install of multiple versions of say postgresql?
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by whatajoke 16y ago
Good. With their upcoming fusion product line, ATI name on AMD CPUs would have only confused.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
A google docs link to original scheme manual, in case the site bogs down. http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Frepository.re...
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The Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman(library.readscheme.org)
3 points by whatajoke 16y ago|1 comments
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by whatajoke 16y ago
You are reading it wrong. It means that the end customer (student) will get it at 50% subsidy, which will be 17.5$
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by whatajoke 16y ago
> I just don't want to see some zealot telling me I can't have a car, and that I am some sort of evil person for having one. Not everybody thinks about you when choosing the people they want to live with. You argue like a conservative a
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by whatajoke 16y ago
That is not outsourcing in any sense of the word. It is an Indian film company entering into a joint venture with a hollywood major.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
In India, freight charges are used to subsidise passenger traffic
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by whatajoke 16y ago
> Geez the amount of wildlife they have killed - no-one will go to prison and it's practically the crime of the century. The Iraq invasion by USA happened in this very century.
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by whatajoke 16y ago
n82 right?
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by whatajoke 17y ago
So they do what opera has been doing for ages. Got it.
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by whatajoke 17y ago
The brave pioneers of 4chan are the Magellans of media desensitization, who abandon the grim reality of their parents' basements to wallow in infinite, recursively self-referential filth. So when My friends and I talked incoherently while
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A final warning from the Arctic(newscientist.com)
1 points by whatajoke 17y ago|0 comments
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by whatajoke 17y ago
His narration is virtually unchanged since he started about 60 years ago. Please do watch Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television . He tends to wear similar looking dresses for all episodes of a series, so that the attenti
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by whatajoke 17y ago
Nokia phones have this bar code scanner application built in. But I never had the chance to use it before :) If you have a phone with such an app, you can try it out on images here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

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