Chinese cows (GM) to produce human milk. To be sold in 3 years. 15 years ago
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Are there subsets of C that avoid compiler bugs? 15 years ago
I wonder if there are compilers that don't compile an empty file correctly.
Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle. 15 years ago
Blub programmer telling why you should program in Blub.
Groupon is Effectively Insolvent 15 years ago
Maybe because they are?
> The ability to run Mac OS X apps on the iPad, with full access to the file system, peripherals, etc., would make the iPad worse, not better.
For iPad users, yes, but not for Windows users.
Exceptions are Bad 15 years ago
Gaaahh.... Just because C++ and Java do something incredibly stupid when it comes to exceptions, doesn't mean exceptions are bad. Just that C++ and Java suck.
(hint: exceptions without restarts are retarded)
Germany to be nuclear-free by 2022 15 years ago
> another german trait is that everyone believes that everyone is to be fooled easily.
Historically, they have a reason to believe so.
Linux 3.0-rc1 is here 15 years ago
So, when will Linus be released from mental institution? [0]
These are things in PHP which make me sad 15 years ago
things about php that make me sad:
1. it exists
2. it's used
3. many of its users make more money than me
4. it has poisoned the market, clients have learned to expect and even demand php-braindeath
How do non-english speaking people code? 15 years ago
I would presume they use a keyboard.
On a more serious note, as a native Finnish-speaker, I've always written all of my code and comments in English. It's just so much simpler than any other alternative I can think of.
The Only Way to Get Important Things Done 15 years ago
From the second article:
> I lost seven pounds in the first week, mostly from going to the bathroom as all the accumulated dairy mucus was cleansed from my bowels (now I know why cows need four stomachs to properly digest this stuff)
WTF? Does he think cows eat dairy? Or did I parse that wrong?
The Only Way to Get Important Things Done 15 years ago
There are still 24 hours in a day, doesn't really matter all that much in which order you do stuff when they still take the same amount of time.
Erlang inventor: Why do we need modules and files? 15 years ago
Common Lisp can be compiled one function at a time, and functions belong to packages, which are pretty much key-value databases you can modify, where keys are strings (name of the function) and the values are the functions themselves. So if there is something wrong with some function, I just update the value in the "database" and all callers will call the newly defined function from now on. Nothing magical really. This workflow is supported by the CL IDEs such as SLIME.
Erlang inventor: Why do we need modules and files? 15 years ago
> The more I think about it the more I think program development should viewed as changing the state of a Key-Value database.
This is pretty much how I view my programming in Common Lisp.
Lisp Lacks Visual Cues 15 years ago
I think Python-style implicit kw-args are a mistake. It means that caller can depend on the name of your function parameters and you can't change them without breaking existing code, which may not be yours. Explicit kw-args, where the names of params are explicitly advertised as part of the interface of the function, are a fine idea OTOH, and should be in every language.