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rbanffy
194,610karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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BTW, what is Microsoft Performance Point Server?
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"Sporting a 350MHz 604e processor, room for up to 1.5Gb of memory and six PCI slots, the 9600 was a big beige beast on par with any PC system at the time. " Ha! "on par"?! What competition did it have…
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The soundtrack is great. They also did quite a lot of research in names and related "hacker stuff" (a Jolt Cola can in Plague's bedroom comes to mind) And, of course, there is Angelina Jolie in her 18…
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"it can be hard to find the time to make a good product" So that explain their last decade!
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"And populist talk like this is often the first step towards that end." As usual, it will backfire in the most predictable way: Microsoft will close offices in the US and invest in hiring skilled peop…
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Well... While coding mostly in Python, I am still a programmer. I am only using a more refined tool more adequate to my needs than C would ever be. Obviously, I disagree with the "C programmers have t…
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"advertise a fire sale, and then don't have one" That's tricky when your customer can pop-up a smartphone from a pocket and do a quick on-line search for better deals.
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This deserves a post in its own right. Would you mind to post it?
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Not only that. The BSD license does nothing to prevent a competitor from grabbing your contributions and make a proprietary product with them. Linux is a better target for companies like Canonical or …
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Maybe now they will be able to focus on creating competitive software like they did in the late 80s.
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It took me a while to get to that decision.
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The original Smalltalk VM was not open-source (the concept was not invented back then) but was very well documented and had some different implementations.
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So, the solution is a Lisp'09 standard that talks about GUIs, threads and sockets? I guess the really big problem probably is that there is no canonical implementation, no obvious way to go like there…
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The Smalltalk VM comes immediately to mind.
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I know, but several of them seem to be quite modular and easy to generalize in useful ways.
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Well... I am not sure about Balsamiq, but I am inclined to do so for Django, if there isn't one already.
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No! Palm is good. Don't ruin it!
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Prior to 2001 I would seek a financial justification for such attacks. Sadly, we can no longer count on such rational behaviour.
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Is it only me or I am not the only one worried about what can happen with such a big high-value sitting duck?
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The summary: The Agora has hardware that's different from the G1. Developers write software that, boneheadedly, rely on features of the G1 and won't run correctly on the Agora. Suddenly, Open Source a…
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"The more Isreal can turn Gaza's inhabitants against Hamas, the better it is for Isreal." And that's exactly where the military action fails. It will not turn Palestinians against Hamas. It's quite na…
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"It's the C of scripting languages" Really, it's the BASIC of scripting languages.
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"Ironically, this is exactly what made PHP successful. Everything is included in the box. It wouldn't have been half as successful without including every useful library they could find." I am all in …
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There are forms of retaliation that have far less collateral damage. Israel has employed such techniques in the past with great success. They are "dirty"? Sure they are, but they are far more selectiv…
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"It's the C of scripting" No. C is a very elegant, if somewhat minimalistic, language. PHP is a kludge made of all sort of functions cluttering the only namespace there is. While K&R clearly under…
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Item 2 should not really be a problem unless you are using cheap shared hosting. You should test your stuff on your workstation, not on the server. If you do not test on the server, the whole restart …
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Most probably, a big chunk of the oxygen in the atmosphere comes from last month's photosynthesis - we use it to make CO2 and green stuff converts it back, so, it's always brand-new oxygen we see. But…
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While using Vista, one experiences programs that expose Vista controls. Some others show XP-ish controls, while some others still look a lot like Windows 95/98/2K and, still, there are others that bre…
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There is no amount of life that could generate those, forgive me, titanic amounts of methane ;-) If there is some life there, it must be either very efficient in generating methane or very good at hid…