bitcracker

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by bitcracker 13y ago
That's your reason to buy a WinRT pad and put Linux on it?
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by bitcracker 13y ago
I still don't get it. Microsoft is not that important anymore today as it had been for decades. There are extremely cheap ARM boards (Raspberry, Beagle Bone, etc.) that are almost suitable for Internet and Office applications right now. And
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by bitcracker 13y ago
I don't understand why Linux users want Win8- or WinRT Pads. Not only are they pretty expensive but there already are many cheap good Android Pads running a Linux kernel. There are also plain Linux pads on the market, and even Ubuntu plans
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by bitcracker 13y ago
I would also recommand EclipseFP. It is an amazingly well working Eclipse Plugin for Haskell with incremental compiling, debugger, Smalltalk like browser, and other nice features. http://eclipsefp.github.io/features.html
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by bitcracker 13y ago
Tell your son to put the lamp _behind_ the screen. It will bless his eyes.
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by bitcracker 13y ago
For this simple reason the Linux Foundation should stop wasting further energy for UEFI. As a Linux user from the very beginning (since 1992) I won't buy any UEFI device for Linux in general even if Linux would be 100% supported. I won't bu
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by bitcracker 13y ago
Yes, this is the usual way in Common Lisp.
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by bitcracker 13y ago
> "could I express this as s-expressions?" Sure. "Would I want to?" Hell no. Of course it is possible to implement syntactic sugar in Lisp which supports JSON style expressions. DSLs are common in Lisp, and that actually became a weakne
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by bitcracker 13y ago
It amazes me how programming languages and APIs look more and more like Lisp. Modern languages copy essential features from Lisp, and JSON as one of the most popular JS libs almost look identical to Lisp s-expressions. Someday also more peo
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by bitcracker 13y ago
> Obviously you haven't seen the lisp ads from the 80's :) I studied computer science in the 80's. Maybe that there were some business ads of Lisp (especially Lisp machines). But I had the strong impression that Ada was much more hyped
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by bitcracker 13y ago
Features are much more relevant than marketing. Look at Ruby, some years ago it was hyped a lot but that enthusiasm has fade away. Look at Lisp, it wasn't hyped for about 50 years but it is still alive today, and many modern language develo
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by bitcracker 13y ago
AFAIK the GreenArray chip provides only 128 bytes per core while Parallela supports 32 KBytes per core. As a former Forth hacker I was enthusiastic at the first glance of the GA but 128 Bytes per core were really disappointing. What could t
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by bitcracker 13y ago
One interesting application could be realtime 3D rendering because this is an area with small overhead. I know that the chip does not support floating point but that could be simulated by fixed point integers. I agree with Shamanmuni that t
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by bitcracker 13y ago
Lisp is too powerful only for unexperienced developers because the way of programming in Lisp is totally different from all other languages. Actually many modern languages (Python, Ruby, Java, even C++11) copy more and more features from Li
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I understand what you mean, and you are basically correct. But nevertheless I see this project as a milestone as it helps to focus on selfmade FPGAs instead of soldering TTL chips to copy some hard wired retro systems. If we someday will be
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> I agree with your entire comment except for the first sentence. I meant the term "first step" historically. It is really the first step to true open hardware because it is the first project (as far as I know) that solely relies on bas
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I know that there are several open hardware projects (Opencores for instance). But I consider _true_ open hardware as hardware were we always will have _full_ control over _every_ tiny detail of the system. The TTL level is the right founda
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by bitcracker 14y ago
This is the first step to true open hardware. I am concerned how fast IT evolves to DRM-locked devices. The PC will become obsolete by tablets so we will lose control over our computers. Currently DRM looks harmless but when you consider th
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by bitcracker 14y ago
In other words: C++11 boosts Python :-) I think only a hardcore C++ developer would claim that the author's sample is "succinct". Honestly, C++11 is still far behind the easiness of Python (or Scheme), even with Boost. Funny, a decade ago A
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by bitcracker 14y ago
We'll see whether Wayland is able to hold what it promises.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> wayland _should_eventually_ be able to completely fill the role that X11 currently fills. Which X11 features are still missing? Does Wayland support X11's seemless remote multiuser sessions already? I've googled around and found this
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Another solution is xmodmap in Unix or some similar tool in Windows to change the keyboard layout. With that solution you don't have to miss the default national keyboard layout.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a computer with the power of a PC we had ten years ago. There is nothing more productive than a good desktop workstation with big multiple screens. I recently purchased a new one for a good price, and
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> but it transparently stores and compares UTF-8 strings Thanks for this good news! The last time I tried Lua it didn't work. UTF-8 is ok, full Unicode is not necessary.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I also like Lua. The speed of the virtual machine is awesome. But sadly Lua is still missing Unicode support. This is a big issue that needs to be solved.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Even an experienced programmer can still be a bad programmer. I realized that myself when I learned Ada. You cannot imagine how humbling an Ada compiler can be :-) This is possibly the reason why Ada is not popular at all. It exposes how ba
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by bitcracker 14y ago
IMHO: That's why good programmers love Lisp. Lisp is all about data structures. Data can be expressed so easily no matter how complex it is. Lisp coding is merely writing minimum code to handle data structures. Even code is data. So it's no
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> The ergo gains of vim are so rediculously awesome For instance?
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> if I had to write my own Mars-landing controller, I would use C. No doubt there. C is a good choice for code generation, as a replacement for Assembler. But I would never dare write mars landing code in C directly. I guess the curiosi
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I think it's exactly the opposite. If the story is really true then the psychological effects are enormous. It tells them: "Look we have everything under control. We can even afford to let you know that. Look, we can make your top secret wo

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