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or for more fun try irodov(Problems in general physics). most folks who have done iit would (should ?) already be intimately aware of it :o)

i read this quite sometime (approx 12 years !!!) back: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.7... may give you some general ideas.…

apart from a full fledged cpu, apple might be going for a h/w based encryption/decryption for their iphone (among other things). this would be similar to whatever happens on the blackberry. pa-semi fo…

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alan-kay: "how could you have possibly done the first interactive-graphics, the first non-procedural programming language, first object-oriented software-system all in 1 year" ? ivan-s: "i didn't know…

perhaps this has more to do with recognizing mobile devices as the next big thing (tm), and providing a seamless experience on both mobile and desktops ?

for a different perspective: http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/38813/1954?pf=tru...

well, if you got free for free (bad pun, sorry), would you still be using vanilla malloc ?

that saves you from the "free" tax. the "malloc" tax is still there...

> This seems to apply to just C++ actually. why ? you can just as well create a cache of objects of a given type from within C, and use that for allocation/deallocation...

problem with reusing syntax from another (more familiar language) (imho) is that some fundamental/ubiquitous features e.g. pattern matching which permeates almost everything in erlang, are pretty hard…

why not use water for cooling ? if the skin is porus (not clear from the article) it can possibly be made to appear as sweat, and then it gets replenished in the usual fashion ! please take all of thi…

not really true. what would you say about git ? it has no kernel components, no spec (at least not that i am aware of).

this ( http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 ) is soo much better.

imho, the title of the paper is really great, and that's about it...

my favorite is "...mathematics has no expiration date". it echoes quite well with pg's assertion (on why lisp is not obsolete, in revenge of nerds) "...it was not technology but math, and math doesn't…

this ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JazzProgrammer ) is waay better. imho ofcourse.

reminds me of dr seuss's "green eggs and ham"...

but, can you scale an application without making it reliable ? imho, they are two sides of the same coin.

it has been going on for what, about 200 years now ? just about _any_ government has retained the right to inspect _anything_ that enters it's borders, citizenship notwithstanding. this is nothing new…

paperless office. anyone ?

what about adding some sugar, and having some lemonade...

read samuel-ullman's "youth" http://www.prmvr.otsu.shiga.jp/library/master/SamuelUllman/Y... dunno if lot of folks here have already read it.…

obligatory: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1040

yes.

smith-n-wesson the 'original' point and click interface :o)

indeed. i have used ASN.1 for a bunch of SNMP and GGSN accounting stuff, it is a pita. xdr on the other hand, is a breeze. also, xdr does support variable length fields.