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by xtho 17y ago
Since almost every dynamic language is at one time or the other compared to lisp or praised as lisp + syntax + better + ..., I don't think the view of the Factor community is important.
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by xtho 17y ago
You seem to forget: The older you get, the more you forget. With ten, you know pretty well what you did last summer. With 80 you'd say: What summer? It's snowing outside.
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by xtho 17y ago
Well, you have to believe in a placebo. Who would believe in a cheap sugar pill?
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by xtho 17y ago
The people I personally know use microwaves either for heating water or melting cheese or warming up meals from the day before. But then, if that's all people need, then maybe the iPad really is the right tool for them.
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by xtho 17y ago
Such simplifications are always nice. After reading the explanations for the hand signs I don't know anymore where I live.
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by xtho 17y ago
I guess they call it marketing. Just imagine they would release a product nobody cares about.
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by xtho 17y ago
I'd say factor is to forth what clojure is to scheme: a modernized version (with a larger footprint).
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by xtho 17y ago
A billion flies can't be wrong. Just because it's used on almost every webpage, doesn't mean it's popular in the sense of being liked.
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by xtho 17y ago
tl;dr :-) But how should this solve the conflict of encryption/privacy vs caching?
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by xtho 17y ago
It's quite interesting that the javascript-version got more spam than the simple AT/DOT one. That's surprising---at least to me it is.
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by xtho 17y ago
> But in 2030, your status would place you at the head of the line for a clinical appointment This story is being told since the beginning of modern medicine. Unfortunately, that magical moment always is 20 years in the future.
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by xtho 17y ago
> I like the idea of the web being https by default. So that proxies become useless, the connection gets slower, data traffic increases, firefox users are plagued with warnings because people don't have proper certificats etc. At least
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by xtho 17y ago
I think their object model is a good example. Introduced OOP in version 4 but they implemented it in a way that was unusable. They put it right in version 5 but that broke older code -- and it was still weird. It was only in the latest rele
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by xtho 17y ago
For describing a language, I'd use English if you want to reach an international audience. I don't think a language can claim to be faster than C. But a specific interpreter/compiler can claim to be faster than a specific C compiler.
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by xtho 17y ago
Google does some automatic translation of common terms and provides an option to search for pages in different languages. If this feature improves, this advice could soon become obsolete. Anyway, one reason for using English versions is tha
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by xtho 17y ago
So it's probably the data. In that other ranking the author mentions, Denkmark doesn't fare quite that well. Costa Rica on the other hand does well in both rankings. The maps are quite interesting though in that the continents mostly appear
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by xtho 17y ago
The problem with arm-based linux systems is that it's not that easy for casual hackers to cross-compile programs but this is essential when using linux. So "normal" users who don't develop for that device and don't have the proper tool chai
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by xtho 17y ago
Thanks for posting an abstract of the article's abstract. May I humbly ask if you could condense that a little further in order to reduce reading costs for those of us for who file almost anything longer than say 10 words under tl;dr
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by xtho 17y ago
Most of this points (at least 1-3, I don't know about #4) are also true in other countries (like mine). So they are not reasons for why the US health care system is expensive but rather propaganda.
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by xtho 17y ago
Almost anybody can dig ditches but fewer specially trained people can do surgery. Leaving aside remuneration and social status, when optimizing the use of your resources, you'd let people with that training to the surgery in order to achiev
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by xtho 17y ago
On the last but one page, there is some discussion of this issue.
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by xtho 17y ago
First of all, you don't write _great_ blog comments. If you have something really great to say, you publish it as a blog post, submit it to social news sites, and put a link to your post in a comment to the original post. People do that and
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by xtho 17y ago
Haven't there been some efforts in implementing "database filesystems"? Wasn't this supposed to be a key feature of Windows Vista?
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by xtho 17y ago
It turns out he is a vimmer. I fully support his argument. BTW there is even a snippet/plugin that turns VIM into a typewriter by disabling any movement keys.
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by xtho 17y ago
84MB download for a dia show of cc eye-catching but nevertheless offtopic images. Wow! Sometimes I really wish people would stick to that dull bullet points style of presentation -- in at least half of their slides.
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by xtho 17y ago
The precise semantics of ||= were subject to a longer discussion on ruby-talk. I don't think it's really that important whether it expands to 1.) a || a = b or 2.) a = a || b, is it? So all you would know about a person giving answer 1) is
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by xtho 17y ago
With respect to ambiguity: Wouldn't the LOC count have to also include the code of the interpreter or how would you compare an interpreted language where some method is "built-in" with another language where the method has to be implemented
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by xtho 17y ago
Whether inheritance is an essential quality of OOP is IMHO debatable. This leaves us with data abstraction and polymorphism.
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by xtho 17y ago
The French call it déformation professionelle, which works wonders when it comes to perceiving the weirdest stuff as perfectly normal.
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by xtho 17y ago
How can you say FP was a non-starter? Just because some aging environments were designed by Fortran hackers? FP is better suited for parallelization. And where would you put R?

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