It's not just the language that is important, it's the contributions Lisp made to programming language theory: "if", higher order functions, garbage collection to name a few things. See here for a list of things that the language pioneered.
+1 for the social scene: the majority of the jobs you'll get will be through your friends that you make at university, not because you have a fancy name on your resume. Being surrounded by creative, smart people and forming good relationships with them is easily just as important as learning engineering concepts and getting good grades. Since engineers are known to drink a lot, the party scene is not something to discount since it's quite a bit easier to form bonds with people over drinking games than over class projects.
If you're looking for lower cost, there are a number of universities with good engineering programs in Canada such as McGill, Queens, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo that are fairly close to New York state. They're all publicly funded and so even paying the international student rate is often cheaper than private universities in the USA like MIT.
I care.
Also those manufacturers of complex hardware like Nvidia might care, so that they can justify putting the resources aside to develop Linux drivers.
This statistic doesn't include what I do: buy a server that happens to come with Windows installed, wipe it, and put Linux on it. Does anybody else do that?
The guy who's making Mirah is the guy who made JRuby. I'm assuming he's taking a lot of the same code-base for this one so a lot of the work is already done!
Also I think he did this because he wants a few things that aren't part of Ruby:
1) Static typing via type-inference
2) No jruby.jar hanging around everywhere. This just compiles straight to bytecode using the regular Java runtime.
From what I've heard from the guy, he really likes most of Ruby (the syntax, blocks, mixins) but there are a few things he'd like to change. Mirah appears to be his project to do that.
The Touch Book uses ipkg, and the Linux distro is a custom one called the Touch Book OS (fairly fitting). On their site they give instructions on how to install Ubuntu which obviously uses deb packages.
If you're willing to work for $8/hour doing IT work, you're welcome to come do an internship here!
Your main tasks will be:
Getting Coffee
Testing Code
Writing Getters/Setters
Working an extra 20 hours per week without pay
Seriously dude, if you're going to be making $8/hour, go work for a grocery store or something. At least there you'll get experience with the public and learn some communication and people skills (which a lot of IT people lack).
Definitely a good point. There are currently around 11 million Canadian Facebook users, which is about a third of the national population. That's a lot of advertising eyeballs!
I'd like to note that the summary is not entirely correct.
We are not saying that people should have the right to copy whatever they like, despite what public opinion might be. Copyright is an important tool for innovation, we just think that it has gone too far (death + 50 years? Come on!). That does not mean that everyone should be allowed to download as much music/movies/etc. as they want. On top of that, we are not saying "phase out patents." There are some members of our forums that are saying that, but it does not reflect the entire Pirate Party's desires.
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It's not just the language that is important, it's the contributions Lisp made to programming language theory: "if", higher order functions, garbage collection to name a few things. See here for a list of things that the language pioneered.
Haha, when I said "a lot" I meant on an absolute basis, not relative to the rest of the student population ;)
+1 for the social scene: the majority of the jobs you'll get will be through your friends that you make at university, not because you have a fancy name on your resume. Being surrounded by creative, smart people and forming good relationships with them is easily just as important as learning engineering concepts and getting good grades. Since engineers are known to drink a lot, the party scene is not something to discount since it's quite a bit easier to form bonds with people over drinking games than over class projects.
If you're looking for lower cost, there are a number of universities with good engineering programs in Canada such as McGill, Queens, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo that are fairly close to New York state. They're all publicly funded and so even paying the international student rate is often cheaper than private universities in the USA like MIT.
I care. Also those manufacturers of complex hardware like Nvidia might care, so that they can justify putting the resources aside to develop Linux drivers.
You have to say "please."
Nice, now I have an AI to play against that isn't completely retarded.
The next step is to get this sort of thing onto Battle.net.
This statistic doesn't include what I do: buy a server that happens to come with Windows installed, wipe it, and put Linux on it. Does anybody else do that?
The guy who's making Mirah is the guy who made JRuby. I'm assuming he's taking a lot of the same code-base for this one so a lot of the work is already done!
Also I think he did this because he wants a few things that aren't part of Ruby:
1) Static typing via type-inference
2) No jruby.jar hanging around everywhere. This just compiles straight to bytecode using the regular Java runtime.
From what I've heard from the guy, he really likes most of Ruby (the syntax, blocks, mixins) but there are a few things he'd like to change. Mirah appears to be his project to do that.
Is it wrong that I read this and thought that it was April Fool's?
and then attempts to refute. Fair enough. Except - the link leads to The Cathedral And The Bazaar - where I cannot find the quote... Hmmm
It's on this page: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html
Right after point #8, about halfway down.
The Touch Book uses ipkg, and the Linux distro is a custom one called the Touch Book OS (fairly fitting). On their site they give instructions on how to install Ubuntu which obviously uses deb packages.
And YIPS sounds so much better than QIPS.
I always thought we were supposed to refer to him as GNU/Stallman.
They had to learn Spanish to guard the Maine border? That's odd, considering most of that part of Canada is French.
Your main tasks will be:
Seriously dude, if you're going to be making $8/hour, go work for a grocery store or something. At least there you'll get experience with the public and learn some communication and people skills (which a lot of IT people lack).
pygame comes to mind.
To the other Canadians out there: we won't be getting it, according to the Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/why-you-cant-get-the-kindle-in-canada/article1316081/
I guess I'll have to get it shipped in from Burundi or Sri Lanka instead.
Just to let you know, I used this comment a school assignment.
Palm as in palm of your hand, here I was thinking palm tree. That would certainly be "less-than-inconspicuous"!
Grab it straight from their site: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
Sure, we'll challenge them to a race to see who can be the first registered Pirate Party out of Europe :)
Definitely a good point. There are currently around 11 million Canadian Facebook users, which is about a third of the national population. That's a lot of advertising eyeballs!
Leave Britney alone!!! Please!!!
D is easier to spell.
I'd like to note that the summary is not entirely correct.
We are not saying that people should have the right to copy whatever they like, despite what public opinion might be. Copyright is an important tool for innovation, we just think that it has gone too far (death + 50 years? Come on!). That does not mean that everyone should be allowed to download as much music/movies/etc. as they want. On top of that, we are not saying "phase out patents." There are some members of our forums that are saying that, but it does not reflect the entire Pirate Party's desires.
Other than that, the summary is right.