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by wingo 16y ago
There is no technical answer. OK, there are terrible answers, but not everyone agrees about which those are. In the end making a compiler is a world-affecting act: both to your own, and to those of others. You have to decide socially which
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by wingo 16y ago
Whatever seems like the most fun to you, of course. Also: there are many more possible compilation targets than ones you list.
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by wingo 16y ago
Interesting, but how ugly!
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by wingo 16y ago
There is a close relationship between operative and official. As you probably recall, GHW Bush was head of CIA at one point.
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by wingo 16y ago
The FSF is only in a position to "go after" Apple because it is the copyright holder of GNU Go. It does not hold copyright on Linux.
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by wingo 16y ago
'No results found for "slalom of writing".' Excellent!
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by wingo 16y ago
The editorialization in the title is unnecessary.
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by wingo 16y ago
hackerish != hackish.
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by wingo 16y ago
Truly, truly disturbing. The planet is lucky, very lucky, to not have seen these things in action.
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by wingo 16y ago
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25171/
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by wingo 16y ago
It did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_S... (More broadly: one need not ask permission for natural rights.)
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by wingo 16y ago
Lovely article, and prescient in its own way in the context of diaspora-like services: when we really control our own data, computation will be pushed out to the leaf nodes of the net, which will require symmetry in net architecture. The A
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by wingo 16y ago
I feel like an out-of-touch old man. (Getting there, perhaps?) Both the article and the comments assume a baseline level of understanding ("Steam Mac OS X client"; "Linux support"; suitably vague nouns). Searching helps me resolve these wor
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by wingo 16y ago
It's very remarkable, that; rock-band-like publicity for something that does not yet exist.
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by wingo 16y ago
Interesting, I guess it's a good sign to see this kind of article on a more mainstream site like developerworks. The open-brace, close-brace style of parenthesis placement is not very nice, though, and not idiomatic; and "then" and "else" i
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by wingo 16y ago
Nice story. As a fastmail user this makes me happy for them, though with a bit of trepidation for myself -- change is not something you want to happen to your email ;) (FWIW I've been very happy with them. I'm an offlineimap sort of person,
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by wingo 16y ago
It would be fiscally irresponsible for an established, free-of-charge web site not to sell your privacy to the highest bidder. The solution is to not rely on "sites" -- to not give them the opportunity to act as corporations must. My take o
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by wingo 16y ago
Connection machine lisp. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=140343302019350181...
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by wingo 16y ago
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588930
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by wingo 16y ago
When I was teaching middle school in Namibia, a fellow teacher asked his kids to write something about the wintertime. A common theme was how cold it was, the time when no one wants to shower and they end up smelling bad!
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by wingo 16y ago
More the article than the headline, actually. To me it's written in a kind of "broadcast" mode -- choppy sentences and paragraphs, overly abundant typographic emphasis, etc. Reminds me of people who try to win arguments by being loud -- not
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by wingo 16y ago
I don't mean to be harsh, but your article made me think that you were more interested in making strident, overly assertive statements than in having a conversation.
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by wingo 16y ago
> Did you know that in Firefox a switch statement is one hundred times faster than an object lookup? A switch statement in what language? I presume by "object lookup" you mean the "bar" in "foo.bar" in javascript. With all respect, I th
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by wingo 16y ago
It might be just me, but a veteran blogger blogging about blogging on a new blog just doesn't tip the news-o-meter for me.
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by wingo 16y ago
Puffy. I like Tim's writing, but only when he has something to say. Recent submissions of his to HN have not fallen into this category.
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by wingo 16y ago
Fantastic, and lovely how he speaks of sovereignty in the context of his acceptance of this award -- that communities and software live outside the state, without need for its approval to function on a human level. Hanseatic acceptance inde
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by wingo 16y ago
> “hypnotizing chickens.” This phrase needs to enter the popular lexicon.
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by wingo 16y ago
Neat! (^x.x x) (^x.x x) InternalError: too much recursion
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Formalising Bonds with the Informal(untyped.com)
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by wingo 16y ago
Thanks!

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