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by wingo 16y ago
PPT link?
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by wingo 16y ago
What does that mail really mean? Does the patent grant extend to end users of Hadoop, or just the Apache foundation? What about users who patch their Hadoop? Is it revocable? I'm sure there is good will here, but the system is disgusting.
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by wingo 16y ago
> The classic problem for self-hosting compilers is that of bootstrapping: with what will you compile the compiler? > Since it is arguably one of the largest hurdles standing in the way of widespread adoption, the awib development t
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by wingo 17y ago
Flag it [edit: and, more positively, submit something more hackerly! ]
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by wingo 17y ago
Links to http://blog.cr0.org/2010/04/javacalypse.html , which is much more informative.
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by wingo 17y ago
Guile being LGPL allows its code to be _included_ into other LGPL software. Other than that it's the same, just a bit simpler to think about.
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by wingo 17y ago
That used to be the case, up to Guile 1.6. Guile 1.8 is LGPLv2+, and 2.0 (next month?) is LGPLv3+. The only (?) common license that is incompatible with LGPLv3+ is ironically GPLv2 (without +).
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by wingo 17y ago
Shh, don't tell ;) Guile is licensed under the LGPL, by the way. In a normal dynamically-linked environment, the only restriction this imposes on you is the requirement to redistribute any modifications to Guile itself. You probably knew th
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by wingo 17y ago
If everyone took to heart his "non-starter" characteristics, no one would start anything. That said, it was a lovely rant ;-)
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by wingo 17y ago
There are many possibilities. SXML is the one I use. You need to use a semi-structured editor, like paredit on emacs, to get all of the advantages, though. Otherwise as you mention you'll be grovelling for the closing paren, when the machin
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by wingo 17y ago
Stallman has done lots of lovely work. Now he does some OK thinking. Just let him be :) In my case, one must recognize that the GNU manifesto was also impractical. This totally might not work, but I think the concerns are valid, and the imp
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by wingo 17y ago
The networking concerns (Metcalfe's law and all that) are definitely a problem. I don't think that an autonomous network could start with facebook; it would have to build up to that kind of application through iterative development and refi
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by wingo 17y ago
Git with privacy is a bit hard. Imagine that you determine that 123456abcde is a the SHA-1 for a bomb-making cookbook. Well then you just monitor the net for requests for that hash, and you see who's making bombs. Tor-type privacy is also p
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by wingo 17y ago
Anyone here who knows what a closure is can fix their language implementation. It is really not that complicated. I have no idea why you are talking about cars. It is totally irrelevant. Andy, GNU Guile maintainer. [Edit: downmods? I though
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by wingo 17y ago
Fix your language implementation: a debugger should have access to a closure's captured state.
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by wingo 17y ago
The poster is Guy Steele, who when implementing Scheme, found out that his implementation of objects (actors) was actually the same as his implementation of closures. [Edit: the poster is actually Anton van Straaten, replying to Steele]
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by wingo 17y ago
Would be an interesting data collection exercise, too.
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by wingo 17y ago
> And frankly, if you don't roll it yourself, what are you going to use other than ICU? GNU libunistring: http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/
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by wingo 17y ago
Ah, that is why you really want Guile, which will allow your users to choose their extension language! Heh, OK, Guile is not quite there yet. You can stop laughing now :)
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by wingo 17y ago
Everyone tells me that spidermonkey is actually an independent library. They could be wrong, though :P
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by wingo 17y ago
In v0.2-beta, the line reads `sprintf(pport_s, "2222");'.
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by wingo 17y ago
This makes me sad. PLT folk are great Scheme researchers and practitioners; now I fear their work and conversations will turn ever-more inward. OTOH I can't blame them for wanting to leave the current Scheme governance story behind.
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by wingo 17y ago
And tweakable via Scheme to boot! http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/In...
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by wingo 17y ago
"Let us summarize what our algorithm achieves. Given a user's /public/ IMDb ratings, which the user posted voluntarily to reveal /some/ of his (or her; but we'll use the male pronoun without loss of generality) movie likes and dislikes, we
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by wingo 17y ago
While it's not entirely the same situation, perhaps you should read up on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal .
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Return-into-libc without Function Calls(cseweb.ucsd.edu)
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Guile and Delimited Continuations(wingolog.org)
4 points by wingo 17y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 17y ago
Close is not enough -- part of the attraction of s-expressions is that they are part of the language. Thus you can use the language's escaping mechanisms, or put the escaping in your sxml->xml filter. Preserving XML escapes is not actua
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by wingo 17y ago
I have read the paper before, and it's certainly right -- but Gabriel never claimed that the fib benchmark was anything other than a microbenchmark of certain aspects of a system. For example, when discussing the TAK microbenchmark, he says
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by wingo 17y ago
Sigh. Does anyone have a PDF link?

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