Piping does NOT work the same in Windows as in UNIX. Pipes in windows have function-call semantics (in the pipeline foo | bar, foo runs to completion before bar begins), and pipes in UNIX have lazy semantics (foo and bar run simultaneously, and foo only runs as long as bar needs it to run). If you have a gigantic file in UNIX and do cat file | head, it will only read the first ten lines; if you did the same thing in Windows, the entire file would be read before anything would be displayed.
This may have been fiction, but you can kill someone with a home-made rubber band gun. They're called zip guns, and they use a rubber band to propel the projectile.
This f*cking article was up on the Reg® on the f*cking 27th of February!
In the world *I* live in, that was last Wedesday!
How the f*ck does this qualify as "news"?
Did you know about it last Wednesday?I didn't.It's news to me.
The page says that Unlambda's interpreter is written in Scheme, which isn't strictly true. The CUAN contains interpreters written in Java and Scheme, and more than one in C. I think there's a buggy Perl interpreter, as well.
I've written an Unlambda interpreter/stepper in Python, available here. It's correct, as far as I know, but extremely slow for lengthy programs.
So even if Python may be a nicer language in almost every respect (and who's to say if it is?), that doesn't mean anything, because scripts were meant to be dirty.
Look at this script and tell me if it's written nicely (and yes, it does actually work)
Perl just added weak references. This is an idea that's been known in the academic programming language design community for over a decade, but until now, it hasn't shown up in a mainstream language.
Python 2.1, currently in beta, has them too.
See the
development docs.
ComicBoy and SalonBoy aren't talking about the same thing at all, though. The corporate influences that the comic-strip writer (I don't know his name) talks about , which influence the production of the artist and his ability to get his art to the public, and the corporate influences Caleb Carr, which may not have anything to do with artists, are not the same thing. Not everyone who mentions corporations on the net is talking about music or comics or novels or things that can be produced by a singler person or small number of people.
Unless I'm misremembering, the scary Asian general in Cryptonomicon is Japanese, not Chinese. While most generals may be scary madmen (:-), WW2 Japan certainly had some.
prop.us - Would be for those wishing to spread propaganda. For example, we could have a site designated for MPAA.prop.us . This would make it not only easier for the MPAA to spread propaganda, but for us to identify such material!
Of course the MPAA would argue for a slashdot.prop.us, so you don't really win anything.
Personally, the knowledge that there is/will be an AIM client supported by AOL makes me much more likely to install some form of Linux or *BSD. I don't care about talking to geeks, I care about talking to my friends, most of whom use AIM if not AOL.
Of course, all this means is that Napster's eventual loss (I just don't see judges coming down on the
side of good here, guys.) is just postponed.
No, I think they'll shut napster down.
I don't want to seem combatative, and I myself have downloaded a great deal from napster, but anyone who maintains it's anything other than theft made easy is rationalizing.
I know people who maintain that it's ok because under the current system, the labels are exploiting the artists and the current system is unfair anyway. Or people who say that it's ok because "information wants to be free". I think that's bull. If the artists don't want their music distributed via napster, gnutella, or the like without their seeing a profit, then it shouldn't be done, and I would maintain that even if the judges decided that napster was legal.
As for information wanting to be free, I fail to see how that relates. Music isn't information. It can be encoded, but that doesn't make it information. Information isn't created; music is. That is, information is something about the real world. "Bill Clinton is president" is information. No one created that. No one can control it. Someone did create "Enter Sandman", though, and if Metallica wants to limit its distribution, that's Metallica's decision and it should be respected. I seem to have rambled a bit.
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Piping does NOT work the same in Windows as in UNIX. Pipes in windows have function-call semantics (in the pipeline foo | bar, foo runs to completion before bar begins), and pipes in UNIX have lazy semantics (foo and bar run simultaneously, and foo only runs as long as bar needs it to run). If you have a gigantic file in UNIX and do cat file | head, it will only read the first ten lines; if you did the same thing in Windows, the entire file would be read before anything would be displayed.
This may have been fiction, but you can kill someone with a home-made rubber band gun. They're called zip guns, and they use a rubber band to propel the projectile.
You mean, square?
The page says that Unlambda's interpreter is written in Scheme, which isn't strictly true. The CUAN contains interpreters written in Java and Scheme, and more than one in C. I think there's a buggy Perl interpreter, as well.
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I've written an Unlambda interpreter/stepper in Python, available here. It's correct, as far as I know, but extremely slow for lengthy programs.
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Loads of fun!
If it was not for Turning, many of us would be speaking German. (And I have a bad enough time spelling as it is...)
Actually, German spelling is much easier than English.
This is hardly news. 17th-century economists knew that specialization leads to a vast increase in productivity.
So even if Python may be a nicer language in almost every respect (and who's to say if it is?), that doesn't mean anything, because scripts were meant to be dirty.
Look at this script and tell me if it's written nicely (and yes, it does actually work)
Perl just added weak references. This is an idea that's been known in the academic programming language design community for over a decade, but until now, it hasn't shown up in a mainstream language.
Python 2.1, currently in beta, has them too. See the development docs.
You're saying it's "a damning comment on the quality of the education system" because he hasn't lost his creativity?
Or Pokey the Penguin...
ComicBoy and SalonBoy aren't talking about the same thing at all, though. The corporate influences that the comic-strip writer (I don't know his name) talks about , which influence the production of the artist and his ability to get his art to the public, and the corporate influences Caleb Carr, which may not have anything to do with artists, are not the same thing. Not everyone who mentions corporations on the net is talking about music or comics or novels or things that can be produced by a singler person or small number of people.
Excellent. We have a summary, by someone who has never read the original essay, complete with an ad-hominem attack, of another summary.
Personally, the knowledge that there is/will be an AIM client supported by AOL makes me much more likely to install some form of Linux or *BSD. I don't care about talking to geeks, I care about talking to my friends, most of whom use AIM if not AOL.
I don't want to seem combatative, and I myself have downloaded a great deal from napster, but anyone who maintains it's anything other than theft made easy is rationalizing.
I know people who maintain that it's ok because under the current system, the labels are exploiting the artists and the current system is unfair anyway. Or people who say that it's ok because "information wants to be free". I think that's bull. If the artists don't want their music distributed via napster, gnutella, or the like without their seeing a profit, then it shouldn't be done, and I would maintain that even if the judges decided that napster was legal.
As for information wanting to be free, I fail to see how that relates. Music isn't information. It can be encoded, but that doesn't make it information. Information isn't created; music is. That is, information is something about the real world. "Bill Clinton is president" is information. No one created that. No one can control it. Someone did create "Enter Sandman", though, and if Metallica wants to limit its distribution, that's Metallica's decision and it should be respected. I seem to have rambled a bit.