Seriously, people don't know what they're missing. Quick example: one of the most advanced web application development framework around is coded under Squeak in Smalltalk: Seaside.
And people right now are wetting themselves over "Ruby on Rails", while this isn't even comparable in term of flexibility and power.
Pity the masses who ignore advanced programming languages technology.
I prefer xpdf because it loads much faster, and you can hit the 'r'eload button when you update your document. It's quite useful when you're working with LaTeX.
The "only" drawback I see is that sometimes when reading certain articles I get some really ugly, pixelated fonts.
I suppose there might be a fix around for that? Anyone?
For size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles.
Yes, but Britannica's 85,000 articles are credible and verified for accuracy, while some of Wikipedia's content should be questionned.
Wikipedia is still my favorite surfing destination to kill time.
New and Elegant "foreach" ?
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Wow, a new syntactic construct. Stop the press.
Seriously, such rejoicing about new language features fills me with pity at the thought of those poor programmers stuck with whatever language constructs the "higher autorities" deems them worthy to have.
Lisp has supported extending the language for about 40 years. And people still get excited when they get a new syntactic construct for C++. That is sad.
If you want to find joy and productivity in programming, use Scheme, Common Lisp or some other programmable programming language. Free your mind.
Clusters can get high performance on some types of tasks. But sometimes, you need fine-grained parallelism that just isn't available on a cluster.
On the other hand, high performance usually comes through special hardware. And on that hardware, I think Linux could be the right thing (modulo some patches).
I saw him recently in a conference. He talked about how we all need as americans to make sure we know how to stand in the menace of the actual "orwellian" (his words) government policies.
He sure knows his stuff and is a great source of inspiration for all of us.
At least the research in university isn't (as) tainted as in the industry. If we can get the top researcher to make great and open contributions to the science, it's all the better.
[...]don't ya think it's about time to move to start using Berkeley DB files instead of plain text[...]
Plain text has the big advantage of being easily fixable and editable with a simple editor. I admit I don't know if there is a way to easily manipulate Berkeley DB file (could anyone tell me about that?).
Maybe some kind of caching scheme would be more appropriate for the need you mention.
Making pornography isn't like it's an honest job or enterprise. They are already into the "corruption of minds" market, so they don't care about wankers sharing and downloading their stuff. They are amongst equal, so they don't feel threatened.
Raving slashdot p2p trolls aside, we all know that pirating is not acceptable. That is why people believe so much in the GPL: *that* is sharing and you are not hurting anyone when doing it. But copying windows and office and such, *that* is an illegal act (and you encourage Microsoft too!).
From the book's presentation page: To be a programmer without ever learning assembly language is like being a professional race car driver without understanding how your carburetor (sic) works.
To which I reply: To be a book writer without ever learning how to spell properly is like trying to teach programming by starting with assembly languages.
Slashdot Mirror
"The patient responded well to the treatment immediately and has since made a total recovery and has returned to work."
I find it really sad to consider that a person almost died and that the "positive outcome" is that he returned to work.
Smalltalk dead? Riiight.
Seriously, people don't know what they're missing. Quick example: one of the most advanced web application development framework around is coded under Squeak in Smalltalk: Seaside.
And people right now are wetting themselves over "Ruby on Rails", while this isn't even comparable in term of flexibility and power.
Pity the masses who ignore advanced programming languages technology.
From Dijkstra's timeless "How do we tell truths that might hurt?":
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail.
He said that 30 years ago. People still don't listen.
I prefer xpdf because it loads much faster, and you can hit the 'r'eload button when you update your document. It's quite useful when you're working with LaTeX.
The "only" drawback I see is that sometimes when reading certain articles I get some really ugly, pixelated fonts.
I suppose there might be a fix around for that? Anyone?
No, man. It does look a bit "plain" right now.
Actually I think it's almost an improvement, and made me realize how tired Slashdot's colors are.
Aww, come one. Kite aerial photography. There's been links about that on Slashdot before. That link talks about events which happened 98 years ago!
;)
I know Slashdot sometimes report on old news or dupe, but that's ridiculous.
... and the subsequent amendments.
For all of you who still haven't seen it, I strongly recommend this 'propaganda' gem from the Python community:
Video: Introducing Python
Features GvR, ESR, etc.
It's so bad it hurts. You'll want to show it to all your friends.
For size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles.
Yes, but Britannica's 85,000 articles are credible and verified for accuracy, while some of Wikipedia's content should be questionned.
Wikipedia is still my favorite surfing destination to kill time.
you'll love this flash game: Ant City
Right here: Cooking with Light.
Wow, a new syntactic construct. Stop the press.
Seriously, such rejoicing about new language features fills me with pity at the thought of those poor programmers stuck with whatever language constructs the "higher autorities" deems them worthy to have.
Lisp has supported extending the language for about 40 years. And people still get excited when they get a new syntactic construct for C++. That is sad.
If you want to find joy and productivity in programming, use Scheme, Common Lisp or some other programmable programming language. Free your mind.
Clusters can get high performance on some types of tasks. But sometimes, you need fine-grained parallelism that just isn't available on a cluster.
On the other hand, high performance usually comes through special hardware. And on that hardware, I think Linux could be the right thing (modulo some patches).
I saw him recently in a conference. He talked about how we all need as americans to make sure we know how to stand in the menace of the actual "orwellian" (his words) government policies.
He sure knows his stuff and is a great source of inspiration for all of us.
Dude, you've got a respectful and interesting point of view.
.sig? Do you really believe that?
But damn, what's with the
At least the research in university isn't (as) tainted as in the industry. If we can get the top researcher to make great and open contributions to the science, it's all the better.
Thanks bud, people are so confused about types.
One ought to write a basic type theory guide.
And yes, I *do* feel better now.
And write SVG by hand?
Grow up, idiot. Tools matter. And go away with your stupid w3.org and XML, you know nothing.
[...]don't ya think it's about time to move to start using Berkeley DB files instead of plain text[...]
Plain text has the big advantage of being easily fixable and editable with a simple editor. I admit I don't know if there is a way to easily manipulate Berkeley DB file (could anyone tell me about that?).
Maybe some kind of caching scheme would be more appropriate for the need you mention.
Such a serious security flaw could have been noticed by other security experts during that time.
eEye has shown an admirable amount of restraint in not revealing the hole before MS was "ready".
Microsoft's "security initiative" is obviously a bad joke on their users.
Making pornography isn't like it's an honest job or enterprise. They are already into the "corruption of minds" market, so they don't care about wankers sharing and downloading their stuff. They are amongst equal, so they don't feel threatened.
Raving slashdot p2p trolls aside, we all know that pirating is not acceptable. That is why people believe so much in the GPL: *that* is sharing and you are not hurting anyone when doing it. But copying windows and office and such, *that* is an illegal act (and you encourage Microsoft too!).
People have double standards around here...
If you're going to stoop so low as to make a SPELLING FLAME, at least make sure you're right before making it.
That would take all the fun out of it.
On a more humorous note, there is a "Get it to your Valentine on time!" button on the book's page.
Now, that a sure-fire way for me to get laid... (not!)
From the book's presentation page:
To be a programmer without ever learning assembly language is like being a professional race car driver without understanding how your carburetor (sic) works.
To which I reply: To be a book writer without ever learning how to spell properly is like trying to teach programming by starting with assembly languages.