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rbanffy
194,606karma·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.
email: username at that google mail thing
http://about.me/rbanffy
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rbanffy; my proof: https://keybase.io/rbanffy/sigs/HtF1uAf_RNpwIkNP1-YGWP_-3doWV6S5Cc1KywXeLYo ]
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Well... You know that all the major hard to do components of our little imaginary framework already exist: there already is a Lisp-based web server that could handle HTTP requests (we assume it would …
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Not only that... The other co-prankster (the one with the press release) had already done their own co-prank (a book on the framework that went on sale the same day)... It wouldn't be nice from our pa…
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"we had alreaday"... That's what you get when you are writing this late into the night.
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I am sorry. We have already given up building the site and were ready to let the idea wait for another year, but then our co-prankster, who didn't read the e-mails where we communicated our decision t…
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Sorry. We will fix it ASAP. Must have escaped out build tests. Won't happen again. ;-)
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And, for those unlucky ones that, for reasons well beyond the scope of this comment, won't be able to attend, would it be possible to have the presentations and any other materials recorded and publis…
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If it's a toaster, it probably can run NetBSD. Since you don't report any crashes, it's a plausible idea. I don't think it's possible to design a webite as cruel as this microwave.
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If it's a toaster, it probably can run NetBSD. Since you don't report any crashes, it's a plausible idea. I don't think it's possible to design a webite as cruel as this microwave.
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If it's a toaster, it probably can run NetBSD. Since you don't report any crashes, it's a plausible idea. I don't think it's possible to design a webite as cruel as this microwave.
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Isn't using a "main" function a C-ism? I have never heard of such a convention when programming in Python. Is there one? Does the BDFL know about it?