rtaycher

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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   I think thats just to warn vista/7 users that it doesn't effect them.
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   I believe the .net versions of both scala and clojure are rarely used and not a main focus.
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   "And people are fleeing Java in droves. " -evidence needed.
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   "Tablets are a much more useable form factor in classrooms, etc." why?
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   Java/C# are different in that they compile to a bytecode which is like vm assembly its also not meant as a high level programming language(note that this isn't always compiled to assembly at the end as it can be interpreted, standard java f
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   "Converting programming languages really doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever" Compilers are useful. This probably won't reach production quality but that doesn't mean it couldn't with the right effort, see hip-hop or one of those x-> j
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   Try http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ (note I used it with cdt and had trouble with dark color themes making some elements nearly invisible) but other then that its sorta nice
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   Something that legally prohibits this falls outside the definition of open source. Dual licensing with part of it not available as open source can fulfill your need although many including me somewhat dislike that and consider that against
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   by rtaycher 15y ago

   Doesn't happen except by all the time by primarily open source companies.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I think this is what android does, isn't it. Although android doesn't use x.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    reference counting is slower* then other forms of gc. My guess why its fairly fast in c++ has a lot to do whith how much you can avoid it by allocating things on the stack(of course you can do escape anaylsis but most gc'd languages don't h
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I thought the key was not managing mutable state. Sharing lots of immutable data can probably shave a lot of performance over ipc.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    and opera and a few open source web browsers nobody uses.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    As compared to ? Python is very popular.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    It doesn't work quite the same way but krunner is also quite nice.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    You could do something ala n900.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I believe smalltalk block are BlockClosure objects that can be passed around like any other parameter.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    jobs? especially in the computer industry.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Not for us ex-nokia fans.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I think you are greatly understimate how great less relevant ads are. Much less data/less identifying data gathered -> slightly less relevant ads and a huge win fore everyone. Not that this will lead to that but it would be great if it
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I thought 2.6 was suppose to be the stable release.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Is there a similar one for linux?
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Yes but some of the examples of obj-c I've seen look ridiculously wordy compared with the smalltalk equivalents (even if you ignore op overloading). (setObject: forKey:) vs (at: put:). for ex.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Am I the only one who doubts a lot of the magical usability of touch interfaces?
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    I was thinking he was talking about (mostly?) immutable data structures.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Better(actually faster on 1/3, smaller on a 1/3) then mono!!!/c# http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... , mostly slower then java -server http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... . Still i
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Ribbon on explorer is a bit weird but better then then win7 no menu, weird context sensitive button bar.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    My impression was that Woz developed apple 1(which gave apple some funds) by himself(with jobs only encouraging/pushing) and developed a very large of the apple II(which made apple a multi million dollar company) and then not much else. whi
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    Having downloaded it I can't seem to find a trace of any pascal but plenty of nib files.
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    by rtaycher 15y ago

    The windows ui got a bit worse(no menubar by default right)