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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Stallman on Sunday May 08, 2011 @04:54AM (#2525521)

There's a bug in the online shop - the "add to cart" button for the first book doesn't work (second one does).

Re:Poll: Do you know C? on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:50PM (#2420167)

You're compiling C to LISP, and you're not even telling us??? This being HN, I have to quote you for everybody's benefit:

"Vacietis aims to be a C99 to Common Lisp compiler that produces efficient programs that easily interoperate with Lisp functions, and in addition to offer the introspection, debugging and type-safety features of Common Lisp to C programmers."

Re:Poll: Do you know C? on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:39PM (#2420126)

My main language is Java these days, but I use lots of other languages as well (e.g. Perl, Python, R, sh, MATLAB, ...). However, C remains the language that I know most thoroughly, and I've used it since 1989.

Re:Poll: What OS do you currently use? on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:20PM (#2307497)

At home: MacOS X Ubuntu GNU/Linux HP-UX

At work 1: Ubuntu GNU/Linux MacOS X

At work 2: Windows XP Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Jeopardy update: IBM educates market, Watson performance

Posted by J-L on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @12:21AM
from the jochenleidner.posterous.com dept.

http://jochenleidner.posterous.com/ibm-educates-consumers-and-business-people-ab

IBM is playing Jeopardy, or rather it is letting a cluster of 3000 machines play. Here's an analysis what IBM gets out of it, on the business side and on the technical side.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever used Dynamic programming in your dev job? on Friday October 15, 2010 @11:32PM (#1797257)

- edit distance for various projects (OCR post-correction, spelling correction, word alignment of bilingual text) - Viterbi algorithm in text part-of-speech disambiguation - Viterbi algorithm in speech recognition decoder

(That's admittedly not a lot of DP since the days I've started to code for $$ as a student in 1994.)

Re: Beta of "a startup" I'm working on: Billable. Easy invoicing. on Saturday August 28, 2010 @03:35PM (#1642256)

add computation of U.S. sales tax/GB VAT/DE Umsatzsteuer/...

Cloud, Grid, or Cluster? Clarifying the Terminology of Distributed Computing

Posted by J-L on Thursday March 25, 2010 @05:49AM
from the jochenleidner.posterous.com dept.

http://jochenleidner.posterous.com/cloud-grid-or-cluster-a-clarifying-note-on-th

As distributed computing is becoming mainstream, a lot of people throw around terms like "cluster", "clouds" or "grid" as if they were interchangeable. Here's an attempt to see through the terminological confusion.

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Re:Cities and Ambition on Sunday June 29, 2008 @11:53AM (#231222)

"As of this writing, Cambridge seems to be the intellectual capital of the world."

That can be said for at least two Cambridges.