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Re:Scala's upcoming dynamic capabilities on Friday February 04, 2011 @09:12AM (#2179427)
I guess scala isn't already complex or rather implicit enough.

Is this implemented as a library or does it also require changes to the language/compiler?

Re:How IKEA is structured to minimize tax and maximize control on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:36AM (#2165819)
I didn't tell him not to participate but I asked not to dump his view on other readers since this isn't a site about political or economic theory.
Re:How IKEA is structured to minimize tax and maximize control on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:29AM (#2164888)
I generally enjoy reading hn but such right wing ideologies make me feel sick in the stomach.

Please take into account when making such statements the US (or whereever you live) is not the world. And just because you got brainwashed after decades of conservative government doesn't mean the rest of the world is. But the rest of the world also participates in this community.

Re:Poll: What is your personal annual income? on Thursday January 27, 2011 @05:19AM (#2147329)
You should probably also have asked how many hours per week people work. There is little use in comparing people who work 20 hours per week with workaholics who do little else.
Re:Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:58AM (#2138409)
The jit has more information about runtime behaviour. The question is though whether haskell's or similar slightly more advanced type systems aren't able to compensate for that.
bibtex + file system
Re:Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:16AM (#2070653)
You are right of course.
Re:Ask HN: How to step up my coding skills? on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:57AM (#2070212)
Since you majored in maths and physics, you have a lot of specialized knowledge. I'd rather build on that than trying to compete with younger, better trained, more skilled people on "general purpose" development tasks. I once worked with a physicist and it was rather tiresome because on the one hand he had that "hey, I was at cern, I am the smartest guy around"-attitude while on the other hand he was ridiculously incompetent when it came to solving basic tasks.
Re:Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:23PM (#2063847)

    And before you ask what about a method without an object, understand that they do not exist.
Technically, there are unbound methods (i.e. methods with no object) but you can't call them.
Re:On the increasing uselessness of Google on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:40AM (#2062243)
"Other search engines decide to eschew Ads for accuracy and cut down the spamming, to gain market share."

This probably only works as long as they are small, i.e. of little importance. With market share comes the spam.

Anyway, I don't think google is that bad. At least, I don't find google any less useful than other general purpose, non-specialized search engines. I'm more concerned about their use of personal data.

Re:On learning Go [the programming language] on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @01:56AM (#2048185)
They have had their chance to rename it to issue9 (http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9). Unfortunately they didn't. They probably never googled for "go" when they chose the name.
Re:On learning Go [the programming language] on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @01:53AM (#2048176)
go support was recently included in gcc. I can't really tell if this changes anything though (with respect to goroutines vs runtime).
Re:Erlang - overhyped or underestimated? on Saturday December 25, 2010 @12:30AM (#2038576)
"ad 1.)" is completely wrong: From http://www.erlang.org/faq/academic.html:

    10.3  Where does Erlang syntax come from?
    Mostly from prolog. Erlang started life as a modified prolog
Maybe this means Prolog syntax isn't really that weird?
Re:I want a "plonk" button in Gmail on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @12:23PM (#2028487)
ad 1. I'm not sure if this is the case for gmail but when you use a spam filter that is fed by many people there is a chance that you're classification of that mail as spam affects other people. If you use some sort of self-adapting, learning spam filter, you will be affected too because you mark mail as spam that looks like normal mail.

To put it simple: the spam button is for spam = unwanted mass mails, mostly ads. For unwanted mail from specific users, you should create a filter.

My personal take on this though is: People who found out how to subscribe to a mailing list, should also be able to unsubscribe.

Re:Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:59PM (#2018231)
They say "2 plus 3" when they read out loud the standard mathematical infix notation for that expression but that's not what they do.
Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:21AM (#2015805)
Most of these sites have some free service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_bookmarking_webs...
Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:04AM (#2015784)
Mr Wong is similar to delicious and once allowed you to import delicious exports. It has grown "bigger" since I last visited the site (a couple of years ago) though and I don't know if it is any good in its present state.
Re:Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:29AM (#2015635)
Do you say "add 2 and 3" or "2 add 3"?
Re:Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:50PM (#2001309)
> “Books are priced too high”

I don't think he (the "pirat") has an idea of how much time has to be invested in the production of good books. I personally think that books are drastically undervalued and that people are not willing to pay enough for good books which has the consequence that they are either served well targeted bestsellers, which can be produced at that price, or junk. Big publishing companies and bestseller authors don't have that much of a problem selling their books at a lower price so that people are less inclined to download a pirated book.

Re:The Grace Programming Language on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:29PM (#2001198)
The lack of innovation in the design principles (see the abstract) is well reflected in the name:

- http://freshmeat.net/search?q=grace

- http://www.google.at/search?q=grace%20software

Could be a case of the NIH-syndrome. The jury is waiting for some sort of implementation.

Re:Engadget's review on Nexus S on Saturday December 11, 2010 @07:41AM (#1994718)
In a communist society or as an Apple user life sure is simpler.
Re:Writing your first Vim plugin using Ruby on Saturday December 11, 2010 @07:40AM (#1994716)
IMHO the use of an embedded interpreter really only pays off for plugins that perform a more or less complex task like parsing or something that requires functionality that VimL doesn't provide like internet access or interprocess communication etc. For simpler tasks, I'd suggest to stick with VimL.
Re:An open source command-line computer algebra system (CAS) on Saturday December 11, 2010 @07:32AM (#1994703)
Before people start posting an entry for every single cas out there, I'd like to link to the wikipedia comparison table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_...

Neither maxima nor mathomatic are news in whatever sense of the word.

Re:Preview the new Google Groups Redesign on Thursday December 09, 2010 @11:21AM (#1987958)
To some extent that's rather a problem of a missing moderator (especially in usenet groups and mailing list mirrors). I could also understand though if some moderators simply gave up to manually mark spam posts.
Re:Preview the new Google Groups Redesign on Thursday December 09, 2010 @11:18AM (#1987949)
The should have rather added an "ignore thread" button. I have some doubts the new tree view helps users to keep an overview in threads with 40+ messages.
Re:Vim-latex tools on Monday December 06, 2010 @04:49PM (#1976959)
It's a bit unfair if you take into account for how long the vim-latex suite is around. Back then in the old days, plugins had dull names, snippets were called templates, and the people on #vim probably just learned to spell their names.
Re:Google announces eBooks on Monday December 06, 2010 @12:23PM (#1975985)
Amazon should rather support epub format if they care to have some success in Europe and maybe some other non-US markets.
Re:Erlang and OTP in Action on Sunday December 05, 2010 @07:02AM (#1971477)
If you're doing marketing supposably for friends, you could at least link to a blog post about the book.

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