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Re:You’re a little company, now act like one on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @03:38PM (#1395932)
"Foobar inc., Portugal's leading provider of accounting software in the $50-$100 range marketed toward shipping companies".
Re:Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns... on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @09:05PM (#973495)
The title sounds randomly generated.
Re:Xmonad 0.9 released The light, reliable, extensible tiling window m... on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @08:11PM (#949518)
What? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.
Re:What is the "minimal" set of primitives needed for a Lisp interpreter? on Monday November 16, 2009 @02:54PM (#945155)
I can't stop myself from reading it like free verse because of the line breaks :|
Re:Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is still revolutionizing the world on Thursday October 22, 2009 @03:59PM (#897529)
Classic game theory: it's (supposedly) a net benefit for everyone to watch TV, but for any given person it's a net loss.
Re:The C++ bashing season is back on Saturday October 17, 2009 @11:46PM (#887906)
I wonder what a language with a three character Fibonacci sequence would be like. You'd probably need Unicode, if the language wasn't specifically designed for the Fibonacci sequence.
Re:The Wolfram Alpha API Has Arrived on Thursday October 15, 2009 @10:16PM (#884655)
This is a paragon of obfuscatory buzz-speak.
Re:Perl 5.11 released on Saturday October 03, 2009 @05:13PM (#859191)
There's a chicken and egg thing here...
Re:Perl 5.11 released on Saturday October 03, 2009 @04:38PM (#859138)
I don't care which language is popular, I want to know what makes a language popular. I try to choose languages orthogonally to popularity.
Re:Perl 5.11 released on Saturday October 03, 2009 @03:03PM (#859034)
I wonder if perl would be less popular if it was a better language.
Re:Perl 5.11 released on Saturday October 03, 2009 @03:01PM (#859031)
java cobol c++ fortran basic pascal php
Re:A bit of vaporware (or "Microsoft's Secret Newton Killer") on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @11:47PM (#838564)
Secret Newton Killer? Einstein?
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? Let's hear it! on Sunday September 20, 2009 @09:18PM (#833835)
I just scared the hell out of my neighbors. :)
Re:How To Appear To Be A Sophisticated Programmer on Saturday September 19, 2009 @11:16PM (#832654)
There's no language called "Indian". They speak Hindi and English in India.
Re:The Design and Implementation of XMonad on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @06:25PM (#814098)
I use a really similar wm called Awesome (written in C and Lua), but I might switch once I grok haskell more.
Re:Computer science lacks women, minorities on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @04:43PM (#811914)
Yep, total old boys club; you only get in from reference counting. When will women be able to mark and sweep?
Re:Wolfram Alpha proves that N = N - 1 on Monday August 24, 2009 @08:54PM (#783834)
This is very dubious (proving the opposite is easier), but it was quite a lot of fun.
Re:Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub? on Monday August 24, 2009 @08:40PM (#783801)
...Man, Clojure seems to have just about everything from every language ever.
Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 on Monday August 24, 2009 @05:49PM (#783471)
I like Lisp too, but there's nothing especially accurate about it's arithmetic that you can't get in other civilized languages.
Re:Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub? on Monday August 24, 2009 @04:38AM (#781759)
Smalltalk would be trivial to model with s-exps: (object message args)
Re:Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub? on Monday August 24, 2009 @02:27AM (#781620)
I think you need laziness to be a little more prevalent than that before it makes a difference. Haskell's super-concise Fibonacci sequence illustrates that:

  let fib = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fib (tail fib)
Re:Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub? on Sunday August 23, 2009 @11:05PM (#781425)
This question would be the length of a book if I had to define those words. Any hostility you detected was imagined. I was only pondering if a language in a certain style could be overly restrictive.
Re:Ask HN: Teaching others to code on Sunday August 23, 2009 @07:13PM (#781187)
http://utilitymill.com/utility/MetaUtility Just about the same thing for Python. It would probably be trivial to write another one like _why's with Rails, though
Re:Ask HN: Haiku? on Sunday August 23, 2009 @06:34PM (#781139) 

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.
Re:Ask HN: Haiku? on Sunday August 23, 2009 @06:19PM (#781116) 

  Four then Five then Five
  A proper haiku makes not
  Try Five Seven Five
Re:Ask HN: Haiku? on Sunday August 23, 2009 @05:59PM (#781084) 

  BeOS was an
  Operating System, 'twas
  never meant to Be.
Re:LangId Tells You The Language of Your Text on Sunday August 23, 2009 @05:45PM (#781062)
Did anyone else expect this to be for programming languages?
Re:Learn Icon on Saturday August 22, 2009 @11:59PM (#780161)
Some of the biggest reasons to learn a new language are the features that you can take back to more domestic ones; almost nothing that makes Icon special (backtracking, generators, string scanning) can be used in other languages

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