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rbanffy
194,607karma·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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What would impress me would be a 2x gain in a 2 core machine, specially in threads that neither depend on each other nor share any data. Anyway, as a Zope/Plone consultant, I would be delighted to see…
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Basing it on another OS would negate one of the key aspects of their strategy - making it difficult to migrate software from their OS. Microsoft only wins if its body of software is Windows-specific a…
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It's also true that the failure of Java is that it cannot express a mis-initialized pointer. A good programmer has to know both high-level and low-level stuff. And also has to be able to understand or…
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I once proposed our team all had brain-scans to put them as our portraits in the "about us" part of the site.
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"We've got to stop dumping the used ones and zeros into the oceans! It's melting the ice caps!" Really, it's the ones. It's a well known fact ones have more energy than zeros. We should right now star…
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OTOH, if you were brainwashed into believing another group was brainwashed, you will fight any suggestion the other group was not brainwashed and come up with an unending stream of reasons to believe …
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I am not sure I like this use of decorators.
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Just to correct you, we make ethanol, not methanol, from sugar cane. By now, it's proven technology: In my whole life I had, perhaps, two cars that ran on gasoline and could not run on ethanol. The ot…
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Thanks!
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I just happen to love this font: http://www.squareamerica.com/images5/ib73.jpg Nobody seems to get it right ;-)
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Nuclear reactors are somewhat too complicated, fragile and have not the most perfect safety track record. If we could develop an efficient technique to directly convert such radiation into electricity…
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It's a cookbook!
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I just wanted to point out there is a difference between being brave and being fearless. While one has no fear, the other faces it and does not succumb. For all I read from and about him and his strug…
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If a kind soul can help, I found a screenshot where it appears. http://osdir.com/screenshots/fedoracore3test2/87.gif
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BTW, does anyone here knows what slightly serifed font Red Hat used for their terminal when they introduced the Bluecurve visuals? There are days I want my terminals with a slightly warmer font than a…
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Or thet HN is the ultimate Digg. We appear to be entering very dangerous waters.
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I miss my days of bare metal programming. I heard those things even have multitasking OSs these days.
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Very true. Normalization is nice, but it usually won't improve performance. If it does, you should fire the guy that designed the previous database ;-)
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I am speechless. Not because of LISP, but because this history preservation effort really deserves all support we can give them. Unfortunately the mailing list and volunteer forms are 404'ed. The cont…
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Well... I miss my 3278 font a lot. I can't find anything that's really close enough. I remember the numbers were slightly taller than letters. I wonder if someone has the original pixel maps floating …
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Isn't Digg using Microsoft for their ads? I wouldn't like to be a chair in Redmond now.
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that's what I said. "Writing the memory leaks" is, after all, a lot harder in Java (or Python, or Ruby, or Lisp) than in C
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I would do that in exchange for some additional funding ;-)
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NT could be made really solid and really secure. The main problems here are the deep hooks into the OS that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (and all software that requires parts of both to func…
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Besides being very old, as heroev well pointed out, this is a quite obvious article. Just like C++ is slower than assembly, which is slower than using microcode, which is slower than coding at the log…
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Oops... Hit reply too early. But the above US companies could try to sue US residents for the patent violation.
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American companies can try all they want to sue me under US laws. It will be really fun to watch them get squashed by the local legal system reminding them US law has no standing here. BTW, I live in …
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The funny thing is that once I considered learning Chinese because, at the time, I was in the middle of a hardware project where we had to deal with motherboard and other component suppliers located i…
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Or that (this one is in Ruby): s = 'a' class String def rghize
return self + 'rgh'
end
end puts s.rghize
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Try that in Java: class NullReceiver(object): class SimpleCallable(object):
def __call__(self, *args):
pass
def __getattr__(self, name):
print 'unhand…