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  1. Re:This is all well and good... on Optimizing Development For Fun · · Score: 1

    Because it needs to be done?

  2. Re:I've got a better idea on MethLabs Shuts out PeerGuardian · · Score: 1

    The truth is out there.

  3. Re:PDF of paper on New Algorithm for Learning Languages · · Score: 2, Informative

    The project also has a website where you can download crippled implementations of the algorithm for Linux and Cygwin.

  4. Re:As mentioned by Paul Graham on 'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award · · Score: 0

    Lisp's (lack of) syntax combined with it's macros provide a seamless and unrivaled mechanism of abstraction, and abstraction is what programming is all about. Lisp is the closest thing we've got to a perfect programming language. Even if you don't use it, sticking to the Lisp philosophy is a sure way to improve your code. Lisp saves.

  5. Re:Who the hell is Paul Graham? on Dvorak on Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, Graham is lisp guru. His book "On Lisp" is widely considered a must-read within the lisp community, and his pet language "Arc" is shaping up quite nicely.

  6. Re:uhhh on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD is a member of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance.

  7. Re:Java is not slow . Does use memory on Java: One Step Closer To Open Source · · Score: 1
    All programs need to be converted to native machine code in order to run.
    Surely you jest.
  8. Re:Tester on Resurrecting Performers Via Computer Performance · · Score: 1
    There's usually 16 bars in a verse, not 10. Even rappers know that.

    BTW, you didn't seed the RNG.

  9. Re:Lets start counting on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:Location Information? on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's by invitation only.

  11. Re:windows already has some on The Open-Source Detector · · Score: 1

    Free Software is not about granting the right to use your code in exchange for "testing and bug fixes." Free Software is about encouraging the spirit of voluntary cooperation. Using the GPL to punish others for their autonomy is completely bogus.

  12. Re:Oh great... on The Baby Bootstrap? · · Score: 1

    You could pause it.

  13. Re:The Gnome way on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 2, Funny

    your coding style is atrocious. please don't help ;)

  14. Re:And the point is? on Web Browsing on Your PSP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The browser is not fully HTML compliant. It doesn't even parse <h1> tags.

  15. Re:Maybe we should start collecting... on Open Source As Legal Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal to libel a community...

  16. Re:Not too bad on Japanese Govt Boosts OSS Developments · · Score: 0
    It wouldn't be much different than the library system.
    That's a dubious claim, to say the least.
    Sharing knowledge for "free" is never a bad thing.
    Code is not necessarily knowledge.

    I'd be willing to bet that there are quite a few people who believe sharing knowledge of how to manufacture nuclear weapons is a bad thing.

  17. Re:I wonder... on 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens · · Score: 3, Informative

    They could run it through Perl and look at the optimized syntax tree it generates, but I suspect that's outside most hackers' repertoires.

  18. Re:Bad title on Google Launches Google Code · · Score: 1

    Yahoo only powers the ancillary web results (read: text ads)

  19. Re:Java and "Unsupported" Platforms on Will Sun's Java Go Open Source? · · Score: 1

    there have been plenty of C "forks" (C++, Small-C, Embedded C++, Cyclone, Objective C, etc). it's kind of hard to "fork" the perl & and python languages because the standard libraries and syntaxes change with almost every minor revision of the interpreters.

  20. Re:Wrong rival on Will Sun's Java Go Open Source? · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. Have you even used mono?

  21. Re:Meta: Apple? IBM? Developers? on LinuxPPC64 Contest · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Mudflap on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    Buddy, that is not a website. That's an unprotected wiki page, and the vast majority of its content is command like options.

  23. Re:emacs? on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1
    emacs goes against the unix philosophy of having many pieces of software that do one thing and do it well.

    for a lot of people, emacs is practically its own operating system.

  24. Re:Mudflap on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    There is no mudflap website...

  25. Re:Ahhhhh... Time to start compiling all overagain on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    If your memory is that constrained, you should not be using C.