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Re:Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released on Friday October 14, 2011 @06:56AM (#3110716)
Cd are cheaper for people to buy(and cheaper to give away).
Re:Why Dart is not the language of the future. on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:03AM (#3101951)

    "r#{5}"
or in actual use something like

    "I have #{me.num_of_children}\n"
much better then Auto conversion In python

    "I have " + str(me.num_of_sons) + "and " + str(me.num_of_daughters) +"\n"
does get annoying
Re:Why Dart is not the language of the future. on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @03:58AM (#3101938)
Don't (typed) Union types work better for errors(with pattern matching) In haskell I think a nullable type or possibly error type frequently returned from functions which can error

ie. data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a data Either a b = Left a | Right b instead of (err,result) like in go

Re:An lsof Primer on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @12:49AM (#3097155)
In linux at least you can use /proc/`ps -ef|grep flash|grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'}`/fd/
Re:Stallman: GPL ramifications and purpose on Saturday October 08, 2011 @05:10AM (#3087536)
And with proprietary frontends(like flash)
Re:Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac on Sunday October 02, 2011 @10:35AM (#3062930)
why?

also kate is a very nice editor gui editor(mainly linux but probably runs on os x/windows -because of kde portability)

They are obviously asking for the patent to prevent others from using this technique.
"The majority opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito"

And that's why we need a more liberal supreme court.

Re:Why OCaml? on Sunday September 11, 2011 @01:42AM (#2983307)
Wouldn't that be Typed Scheme/Typed Racket?
Re:[Python-ideas] List Revolution on Saturday September 10, 2011 @05:46AM (#2981265)
true the ruby should be a type error
Re:Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:16AM (#2968895)
I'm pretty sure its vim-tiny
Re:Reddit becomes reddit Inc. on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @01:37AM (#2968501)
Paying someone to reply to people on twitter cost 20000 + benefits per person. Not to mention conference tickets, transportation to conferences. Maybe some facebook ads?
Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:43AM (#2964574)
Thanks that will help a lot(although I mostly use eclipse these days) but for smaller tasks having to reopen gvim with more files or opening new files can get annoying(also the lack of project/file groups checking).
Re:America is losing another generation to science illiteracy on Monday September 05, 2011 @03:48AM (#2961523)
Dictatorship of smart morons. Yay
Re:Linux is now hosted on GitHub on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:02AM (#2961213)
I found the launchpad bzr code browser not to bad. Launchpad is also more project based then code based. The thing is that sourceforge and launchpad try to give you an overview of the project first while github show the code and a readme and maybe some wiki pages.
> Officially I live with a zombie

Not as uncommon as you might think. Plight of the Living Dead(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054133,00.htm...)

I don't know spatial mode was default in Gnome for a while and I think most users disliked it.
Re:A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files on Monday August 29, 2011 @03:20AM (#2936300)
I thought using moose turned on warnings+strict(at least its claimed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6050031/why-are-use-warni...)
Re:How much of R is written in R? on Sunday August 28, 2011 @03:50AM (#2933545)
seems unrelated to ubuntu, its seems to be this project:http://code.google.com/p/zecurrencyconverter/
He is probably better known for Modern C++ Design, Loki, and D
Didn't OS X not have restore from trash until recently(even after gnome)?
I'm fairly sure most closed source applications also Include something of a "NO Waranty as much to the degree allowed by law".
Re:Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @12:31AM (#2894110)
Chromebook? hahahahaha
Re:Edit like an Ace on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @04:01AM (#2890292)
how is split views an ide feature?
Re:Python GIL removal question on Sunday August 14, 2011 @07:07AM (#2883369)
python is widely used as a scripting language. If you are on windows they will probably ship with their own python. Even if not they will probably have to use something to glue the main program to the interpreter which will probably not be compatible with any python implementation.
Re:What's Special About Lisp? on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:40AM (#2840701)
can you get an ast in perl/ruby/python?
Re:What's Special About Lisp? on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:03AM (#2840236)
popularity, culture and ease of sharing libraries(ex. cpan) for one.

But also its not that its great for writing libraries but that its great for writing libraries that extend the language.

Re:Chocolat - the new editor on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:52PM (#2835698)
kate has kio which can access files over serveral protocls including sftp.
Re:Java 7 is now available on Friday July 29, 2011 @02:29AM (#2820491)
I think perl6 is meant to have mutiple implementations.

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