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  1. Re:Too constrained and academic on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you don't know of it already, you might also wanna take a look at Clojure, a Lisp dialect that can either be interpreted or precompiled to .class files.

  2. Re:My 3d browser on 3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review · · Score: 1

    Heh thanks, should have known something like that was already there. Funny I didn't think of it before.Unfortunately the link to tabtree is broken. Does someone have a working link?

  3. Re:My 3d browser on 3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review · · Score: 1

    You know what I would like? A tabbed sidebar. And a crawltree sidebar view while we're at it. I'll do it in twelfty years if no-one has by then.

  4. Re:Profit! on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    And you completely forgot to

    them!

  5. Re:MIT has many more... on Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses · · Score: 1

    This is not about your country only. I imagine things like this are a godsend for people in countries where the education system is not as advanced.

  6. Re:independent Orbital/Hab module on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 1

    What would that be in Civilization terminology? The closest diplomat action I can think of is Steal Technology, but I'm not sure, it's far fetched but could be Establish Embassy, Investigate City, Industrial Sabotage or even Incite a Revolt!

  7. Re:Furry overlords notwithstanding... on Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" · · Score: 1

    A picture says more than a thousand words.
    Here, have a look

  8. Re:social networking considered harmful on Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App · · Score: 1

    Umm, I'd rather not go there. My parents' basement is sometimes called the Sun's Secret Layer. You don't want to DDOS that!

  9. Re:Thanks for clearing that up on Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle · · Score: 1

    Ok, that clears up some things. I can certainly acknowledge that John McCain looks 500 years old, but what about the year of Linux on the desktop? I assume that will always be 2 years in the future (wait, hasn't it been like that for at least 10 years?). This probably also means that Bush will be president forever.
    Well goodbye then, going to hang myself - at worst it'll just be the groundhog day effect.

  10. Re:Easy on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    The net may be self-aware, doesn't mean that I am though. All I know, is that I want a bite of your CPU.
    Burp, thank you.

  11. Re:paper is overrated on Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers? · · Score: 1

    Take a look at wikigenes. Instead of having anonymous articles, every word is credited to its author. And they apparently use a rating system as well, with some kind of karma and upmods/downmods. The wiki doesn't have much coverage now - lots of medical stuff in there but not for e.g. CS. Anyway, the project looks very interesting IMO.

  12. Re:elect obama on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    I think you just did.

  13. Re:Stay the fuck where you are! on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Chill on the paranoia, mr. AC. Most of us (in the rest of the world) don't hate the American people. We just have no love for your current government.

  14. Re:The Netherlands on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Did you mention the weed? Huh, maybe I'm just to stoned to remember :o)

  15. Re:tier? on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    True. Let me add a bit to that. I worked in a Scandinavian company that got merged with a company located in the USA and UK. I didn't see any real difference in competence between the two offices, you perceive the difference much better within each office. If the question submitter is any good at programming and has good references to back that up, he shouldn't have any problems finding a well paid job with 4-5 weeks vacation time anywhere he wants to in western Europe at least, can't speak for south/east Europe.

  16. Re:Scripting language. What is it? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    It's not impossible. Just run your Java code with the scripting language Groovy. It runs on the JVM and can accept any Java source. But it also has closures and some more syntactical sugar, so I guess it would be cheating to say that Java is a scripting language even if Java source can be used that way.

  17. Re:Forgive my ignorance on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    See, this is what happens when psychologists try to be funny. There's always someone who finds it insightful.

  18. Re:Stupid stupid stupid stupid on Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the relevant citation:
    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39133

  19. Re:Steal all the computers and skip the country... on Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Don't listen to that, strike and sabotage may very well result in you being fired.
    I'd much rather take the advice seen above - there is clearly a void in the company, with no-one taking good care of software development. Step up, and make yourself an obvious choice for that role.

  20. Re:Hasn't jumped the valley. on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    When they can move Celine Dion and Michael Jackson out of that valley, I'll be impressed.

  21. Re:This makes perfect sense on Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation · · Score: 1

    It's actually quite painless already to install Apache on at least XP. Here's a link to the installer:
    http://apache.cs.utah.edu/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.9-win32-x86-no_ssl-r2.msi

  22. Re:as per Stargate: on Scientists Find Trigger For Northern Lights · · Score: 1

    In this case it means the opposite of extinct. A similar effect can be observed when it's mating season on the dance floor - you go instinct and populate the earth.

  23. Re:braces on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    I personally prefer matching braces in their own lines, but when working with others it's not always a feasible option. IME, the most effective way to battle obfuscated code structure is to not write it that way (duh). Keep your methods short - less than one screenfill, have few indentations - no deeply nested if/else logic, and don't do many things in each loop. When you see your code deviating from that, it's usually a clear sign that it should be refactored.

  24. Re:Waterboarding on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    I'd have modded you funny or insightful. Guess offtopic is now equivalent to "I don't understand".

  25. Re:Practical repurcussions on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    - post saved
    - TODO, july 2108: Loether's cutoff