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by xtho 17y ago
It nevertheless is confusing for somebody who doesn't know erlang. Even prolog uses different symbols for matching a variable and for defining a clause.
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by xtho 17y ago
Or maybe because it doesn't contribute much to the discussion?
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by xtho 17y ago
I wouldn't say "not possible". Interoperability between java and groovy is quite good. It's to some degree true for clojure and scala -- two languages I haven't used myself yet. There are example snippets around in the Internet that demonst
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by xtho 17y ago
In an ideal world the would be no need for Java being the middle-man. That project was founded in 2007. The last release is from 2008. Has anybody ever adopted it?
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by xtho 17y ago
In an ideal world, you should be able to use libraries written in any jvm-based language. It seems to me this isn't easily possible today with most jvm-based languages but maybe I'm wrong.
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by xtho 17y ago
How come you know their IQ scores? Or is it just an assumption that a "genius" has a super-high IQ? BTW most of those "geniuses" have a wealthy/bourgeois familiy background and they had to have some social skills to manage other people that
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by xtho 17y ago
I didn't mean to imply that it would be a bad thing if dnd from one window to another wasn't possible. I personally hate the dnd metaphor, which IMHO is an example of GUI designers gone wild, and would love to see it replaced with something
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by xtho 17y ago
Stripes is also the name of a Java web framework. The world would be a much better place if people did some research before naming their software. I guess you won't drag and drop elements from one window to the other with such a GUI.
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by xtho 17y ago
Unfortunately, the energy needed to build & power ebook readers & to generate & distribute ebooks (incl. maintaining the necessary server farms and other ICT infrastructure) doesn't grow on trees.
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by xtho 17y ago
For several decades a sufficiently large number of books will be sold to make enough money out of production, distribution, storage, and sale. Then BOD will take over but books will be still there.
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by xtho 17y ago
So does a plethora of other static website builders that use wiki-like markup for page contents.
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by xtho 17y ago
Most people in France (or Europe) learn English in school, don't they? IMHO supporting anything but US ASCII is presumptuous.
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by xtho 17y ago
IMHO the ruby revolution boils down to "convention over configuration". This notion was pushed by ruby library before RoR and built on the idea (by the creator of ruby) that the programmer as human being should come first. So ruby hackers p
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by xtho 17y ago
Go, see a doctor. Read up on workplace ergonomics (make sure there is no window behind the screen). Try another monitor. Don't wear contacts when working. Don't work at night or in the early morning. Maybe use a dark background.
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by xtho 17y ago
Maybe it's just me but I personally find it funny, this was posted to the lua-users mailing list.
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by xtho 17y ago
I don't see this a problem because most only few posts on the front page have that many comments. I find troll comments mostly in the discussion thread of posts with 100+ comments, which are rather rare. What I find more annoying are low qu
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by xtho 17y ago
No it wouldn't if it were true for, let's say, 9 physicists out of 10. But then such a statement would probably be true for all of mankind. Human beings can't surf.
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by xtho 17y ago
So when can I expect them to stop asking me where this or that function is hidden in Office __2007__.
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by xtho 17y ago
Isn't the problem rather that e-mail (or rather smtp) is dead (or should be). It seems to me the only solution to this problem is a web-based BBS or replace e-mail with something else. Or is there a mailling list server that requires users
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by xtho 17y ago
Well, if wikipedia says so, it must be true.
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by xtho 17y ago
Coffee isn't a drug or something. I love the taste of it. But I have done my research and know of studies that have shown that coffee has adverse effects on cognitive capabilities. So I drink coffee during meetings in order to stay awake bu
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by xtho 17y ago
A pointless self-promotion that lacks any arguments and explanations etc. Catchy title though.
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by xtho 17y ago
I wonder what the author means by "learning a language". Learning to read simple documents within 3 months isn't that difficult.
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by xtho 17y ago
site:port/file could be considered illegal. A well-formed URL would be: protocol:site(:port)?(/path)? where (...)? denotes optional parts.
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by xtho 17y ago
IMHO this isn't about politics. Political issues include: strategies in foreign policy, the introduction of new taxes, the reform of the health system etc. I wouldn't care if somebody posted commentaries pro/contra this or that position. A
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by xtho 17y ago
Swedes.
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by xtho 17y ago
I wouldn't hire somebody who publishes a picture named "obama-winning-the-nobel-proves-that-white-guilt-is-one-of-the-most-awesome-powers-on-earth.jpg" on his blog (although I'm open to interpretations of that filename).
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by xtho 17y ago
In java, you could use the "while" keyword for that. Anyway, tail-calls aren't necessarily loops. If I'm not mistaken, tail-call optimisation for looping constructs only (which the poster a few levels above probably had in mind) wouldn't re
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by xtho 17y ago
Yeah, only that I cannot use it on cheap webspaces which is what programs like drupal are all about. IIRC it even runs on php4-only sites without access to htaccess.
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by xtho 17y ago
Looking at twins that grew up in the same environment isn't all that appropriate for making statements about the dominance of genes. Of course, if the data doesn't fit our assumptions we could always cite Cyril Burt or do it like he did.

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